Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine
Health Physics/Dosimetry 1996

David E. Drum, M.D., Ph.D.

	Date		Topic	Assignment
Health Physics
Apr	15	M	Holiday Patriot's Day
	17	W	Statutes/Regulatory Guides	handouts; 10 CFR 20
	19	F	External protection/shielding	handouts
	22	M	Nuclear Medicine 1996 day off
	24	W	Nuclear Medicine 1996 day off
	26	F	Medical & research uses;QMP	10 CFR 35
	29	M	Radiation accidents	handouts
May	1	W	Rad safety administration	handouts; RegGuide 10.8
	3	F	Radiation biology	handouts
	6	M	Low level radioactive waste	handouts
	8	W	Problems in shielding
	10	F	Survey meter calibration lab	handouts
Dosimetry
	13	M	Dosimetry concepts and terms	handouts
	15	W	External dosimetry	handouts
	17	F	Particle dosimetry	handouts
	20	M	Internal dosimetry; MIRD I	MIRD primer
	22	W	Internal dosimetry; MIRD II
	24	F	MIRD problems
	27	M	Memorial Day holiday
	29	W	Pregnancy and women's issues	handouts
	31	F	External dosimetry problems
June	3	M	ICRP 26	handouts
	5	W	ICRP 30 & 60
	7	F	ICRP 26 problems
	10	M	Therapy with unsealed sources	handouts
	12	W	Human subjects and informed consent
	14	F	PET dosimetry
	17	M	Take home exam
version 1 3/18/96

Best:	H. Cember	Introduction to Health Physics Third Edition, Pergamon Press, New York, 1996 $45.00 (THE standard text)
Others:	J. Shapiro	Radiation Protection (third edition) Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1990 $38.00 (Excellent reference text)
	J. Harbert	Textbook of Nuclear Medicine Volume I: Basic Science Second Edition Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1984 (selected chapters)
	MIRD committee	Society of Nuclear Medicine "The MIRD Primer" (revised) and "The Mird Tables" and "Radionuclide Data and Decay Schemes" Call the Bookmasters (419) 281-1802 for ordering info.
		(You should own all these anyway)
	M. Noz	Radiation Protection in the Health Sciences Second Edition, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1985 Now out of print - sorry $28.50 (Most concise and brief)
	NCRP	Report No. 105: Radiation Protection for Medical and Allied Health Personnel. NCRP, Bethesda, MD, 1989 (authoritative guide)
	Miller KL, Weidner WA (Eds).	CRC Handbook of Management of Radiation Protection Programs. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1986. (reference book)

To familiarize each resident with the basis for and text of the federal and state statutes and guidelines for safe use of radioisotopes and radiation producing devices.
To prepare each resident to establish a radiation safety program for a typical university hospital.
To transmit the fundamentals of protection from external radiation sources, including uses of shielding.
To review the principles of planning for and managing radiation accidents.
To gain experience solving qualitative and quantitative problems in the above areas.
To review the facts about radiation and pregnancy as they relate to female patients, workers, and visitors.
To learn methods for use and calibration of radiation survey instruments, radiopharmaceutical dose calibrators, and TLD/film badge dosimeters.
To familiarize residents with the principles and units of radiation dosimetry.
To review the principles and computations of external beam and particle dosimetry.
To prepare each resident to make estimates of internal radiation doses by using
1. The schema of the Medical Internal Radiation Dose Committee, &
2. The principles of the ICRP 26 and 30 reports.
To discuss with residents current issues in health physics, such as microdosimetry, annual vs committed dose limits, challenges to the NRC's medical use program, ethics of radiation experiments with humans, etc.