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Job Description
Diagnose and treat diseases using radioactive materials and techniques. May monitor radionuclide preparation, administration, and disposition.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1069.05
Also Known As…
- Physician
- Nuclear Medicine Specialist
- Nuclear Medicine Physician
- Nuclear Medicine Medical Director
- Medical Doctor, Nuclear Medicine
- Medical Director, Nuclear Medicine Department
- Director of Nuclear Medicine
- Associate Professor of Radiology
- Associate Professor of Medicine
- Assistant Professor of Radiology
- Professor of Radiology
- Nuclear Physician
- Nuclear Medicine Officer
Tasks for “Nuclear Medicine Physicians”
- Advise other physicians of the clinical indications, limitations, assessments, or risks of diagnostic and therapeutic applications of radioactive materials.
- Establish and enforce radiation protection standards for patients and staff.
- Check and approve the quality of diagnostic images before patients are discharged.
- Monitor handling of radioactive materials to ensure that established procedures are followed.
- Provide advice on the selection of nuclear medicine supplies or equipment.
- Monitor quality control of radionuclide preparation, administration, or disposition ensuring that activities comply with applicable regulations and standards.
- Schedule examinations and staff activities.
- Determine appropriate tests or protocols based on patients' needs or conditions.
- Test dosage evaluation instruments and survey meters to ensure they are operating properly.
- Formulate plans and procedures for nuclear medicine departments.
- Monitor cleanup of radioactive spills to ensure that proper procedures are followed and that decontamination activities are conducted.
- Direct nuclear medicine technologists or technicians regarding desired dosages, techniques, positions, and projections.
- Perform cardiovascular nuclear medicine procedures such as exercise testing and pharmacologic stress testing.
- Prepare comprehensive interpretive reports of findings.
- Review procedure requests and patients' medical histories to determine applicability of procedures and radioisotopes to be used.
- Direct the safe management and disposal of radioactive substances.
- Consult with anesthesiologists regarding recommended dosages or combinations of sedative drugs.
- Interview and physically examine patients prior to testing.
- Teach nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, or other specialties at graduate educational level.
- Prescribe radionuclides and dosages to be administered to individual patients.
- Interpret imaging data and confer with other medical specialists to formulate diagnoses.
- Administer radioisotopes to clinical patients or research subjects.
- Compare nuclear medicine procedures with other types of procedures such as computed tomography, ultrasonography, nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and angiography.
- Consult with patients following radiation treatments to provide information and assess outcomes or to recommend further consultation or treatments as appropriate.
- Calculate, measure, or prepare radioisotope dosages.
- Conduct laboratory procedures, such as radioimmunoassay studies of blood or urine, using radionuclides.
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- Semiautomated or automatic external defibrillators AED
- Safety goggles
- Beta vial shields
- Diagnostic ultrasound equipment
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Intravenous IV sets
- Radiation shielding gloves
- Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Cone-beam collimators
- Desktop computers
- Laptop computers
- Gamma ray cameras
- Converging collimators
- Portable radiation survey meters
- Fan-beam collimators
- Laboratory transfer pipettes
- Digital ratemeters
- Computed tomography CT systems
- Tablet computers
- Microhematocrit centrifuges
- Electrocardiography EKG machines
- Scintillation probes
- Glass beakers
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- Hypodermic syringes
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- Personal computers
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- Automated blood pressure cuffs
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- Exercise bicycles
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- Laboratory test tubes
- Parallel-hole collimators
- Radiation measurement phantoms
- Dose calibrators
- Microsoft Excel
- Web browser software
- Email software
- Scheduling software
- Digital image processing software
- SOAPware EMR
- Microsoft Word
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
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