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Description
of the JPNM
The Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine (JPNM) is a collaborative effort among a core of Harvard-Medical-School-affiliated teaching hospitals including
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and
Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts
General Hospital, and the VA Boston Healthcare System. Responsibility for
all aspects of the JPNM's operation is through the radiology departments
at each of the member hospitals. Common interests which have brought Program
members together beginning in 1971 include a dedication to:
the advancement
of nuclear medicine as a clinical specialty and the improvement in the
quality of its practice and delivery to patients;
leadership in the basic
training and continuing education of physicians and other health care professionals;
cost savings and quality
control in the provision of radiopharmaceuticals and physics, computer,
and instrumentation services;
the evaluation of new
technologies and their transfer into clinical use.
Guided by these an by other common objectives, the JPNM has developed formal
initiatives of Nuclear Medicine Residency/Fellowship Training, Physics/Engineering
Services, Clinical Computer Services, PET Services, and a centralized Radiopharmancy.
Joint
Program in Nuclear Medicine members:
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