Board Review Tips of the Week:            

1. Spend time in your nuclear medicine department. Get familiar with the cameras, quality control, floods, etc.

2. How do you get your isotopes daily? Unit doses? Generator?

3. Many of the NRC concepts and scenarios will be covered in my board review sessions, presented in creative ways to remember details and are critical for the ABR oral examination.

4. Get confident in identifying what type of study is being shown, and what isotopes are being utilized. Learn the protocols of the different studies.

5. Know the energies and half lifes of the various isotopes.

6. Know the mechanisms of uptake of the different isotopes, and learn the different aspects of nuclear pharmacology (what drugs are utilized in different studies, what drugs will interfere with radionuclide uptake, what drugs are utilized to assist in uptake, etc).

7. Know your differential diagnosis, including causes of false positive and false negatives.