Radiography Education.
Undergraduates at INM.
Since 2018 The Institute has been in collaboration with City, University of London’s Radiography department to deliver the UK’s first and only long-term nuclear medicine training placement for undergraduate radiography students.
There is a skills shortage in nuclear medicine technology, with few, small programmes in the UK delivering training for nuclear medicine technologists. Now we have started to develop a solution to get student and newly qualified radiographers trained in PET/CT, general nuclear medicine and PET/MRI.
Building a programme.
Thanks to support from Rayjanah Allie – Superintendent Radiographer at INM, Darren Walls – Research Radiographer at INM, Jamshed Bomanji, Clinical Head and INM and Hugh Jelley, Imaging Divisional Director at UCLH, the programme has grown from strength to strength.
All 15 students who have completed the placement have successfully graduated and gained employment, some at UCLH. Others have already started working in nuclear medicine departments in London. We have grown from taking just four students a year, to 10 per year in 2021.
“I really found what I was looking for, with the fascinating technology and very nice staff”
— Rowland Young, Student Radiographer, 2020
“I learnt a lot from my time there, rotating around all the different modalities as well as learning about research as a radiographer. This included weekly CPD sessions about studies and research taking place.”
— Amy Kauffman-Thompson, Student Radiographer, 2019
“We have worked with the Institute of Nuclear Medicine to develop a placement opportunity that may be of interest to those students hoping to work in SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MRI in the future. It provides them with the opportunity to do an extended placement in these areas”
— Dr Soph Willis, Senior Radiography Lecturer