Guidelines for Patient Selection



Where to get Cases

Clinical supervisors have been encouraged to identify appropriate cases to be presented and discussed in "Case of the Week" provided from your clinical site. They will assist students in choosing appropriate and representative cases demonstrating common and uncommon Nuclear Medicine Imaging protocols.



Visual Images

Students are encouraged to present the cases of patients that they have personally imaged or assisted imaging. A copy of the final images should be made at the time the images are formatted for the radiologist. All demographic data should be obliterated on student images. (Patient name, date, medical record number, hospital). In the event that the clinic has acquired a current or archived image that is particularly interesting or important in curricular context, those images may be used as long as patient history can be researched.



Procedural Summary


Patient prep., acquisition parameters, instrumentation considerations, Radiopharmacy, patient positioning, procedural variances, and image findings will be reviewed with the Clinical Supervisor and other health care staff.



Patient History


The student will review specifics of patient history (clinical presentation, symptomology). Student will review patient interviewing skills with Clinical Supervisor and other staff personnel.



Summary / Discussion


Student should provide a BRIEF (1 typewritten page) summary of the dynamics covering the principles of the imaging procedure and the anatomy and physiology of the organ system involved. All reports must be typed. All information is to be presented in student's own words. Do not present downloaded or copied reference information.

Consider the relational approach: For each question, "We did it this way because..."



Formatting Your Case Study


Use the representative case studies linked on the Case Study Page to guide you in the presentation of each case.



Research and Bibliography


Students will research the anatomy and physiology of the organ system involved, and characteristic image findings of the specific pathology under diagnosis. The student will organize data, visual images, and chart data for an informative classroom presentation. The written report and visual media will then remain as a formal record of in depth exploration of that content area. Cited research sources may come from Internet sites, text, procedure manuals, or interview. All case studies must be fully referenced by a bibliography formatted in standard APA style. Each case study must cite a minimum of 2 formal references and one interview.