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Summary
Are you a CNMT looking for online Nuclear Medicine Continuing Education?
Need some Free Nuclear Medicine CE credits, quickly?
We’ve curated some of the best online nuclear medicine continuing education for CNMTs.
Here you’ll find:
- 44.5 Free Nuclear Medicine CE’s
- Valid for NMTCB & ARRT
- Links to courses
- Tutorials on how to navigate the courses & get your credits
- Paid online CE sources
- Links to courses
- Prices
- Tutorials on how to navigate the courses & get your credits
Free Online Nuclear Medicine CEs
Nuclear medicine technologists need 24 CE hours every two years to maintain their certification.
In this section we list 60.5 CE hours relevant to nuclear medicine that you can take online, for free.
Plus 6 more free hours if you’re an ASNC member.
Curium – 48 Free CE Credits
- 46 free video CE hours
- 24 relevant to nuclear medicine
- 8 relevant to cardiology (ECGs specifically)
- 14 not related to nuclear medicine
- They are all free, but you need a promo code from your Curium rep
- Call Curium Customer Service at 1-888-744-1414 to get your local rep’s contact info
- Then call your rep & they’ll give a promo code to access the courses
- Or your radiopharmacy might have the code also
- Call Curium Customer Service at 1-888-744-1414 to get your local rep’s contact info
All Curium courses are accepted by ARRT & NMTCB & approved by AHRA & Florida’s Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation
Format: Video Courses
The courses are comprised of videos, with mini-quizzes throughout the courses. There are also written transcripts of the presentations available for review.
- A passing score is 80% or above, & you have 3 attempts to pass the test.
- The quality of the presentations is very good.
- You will learn a lot more per credit hour than you would at an average radiopharmacy dinner.
- It will probably take a full hour to go through each CE hour
- However, there’s a tip in our Curium tutorial which can greatly speed things up for you.
List of Curium CEs Relevant to Nuclear Medicine
List of Curium CEs Relevant to Cardiology
CE Title | Hours | Cost |
---|---|---|
ECG: Cardiac Review | 1.0 | Free |
ECG: Heart Blocks and Causes | 1.0 | Free |
ECG: Junctional Dysrhythmias | 1.0 | Free |
ECG: Lead Systems & Waveforms | 1.0 | Free |
ECG: Pacemakers | .5 | Free |
ECG: Pharmacologics and Drug Classifications | 1.0 | Free |
ECG: Sinus Dysrhythmias | 1.5 | Free |
ECG: Ventricular Dysrhythmias | 1.0 | Free |
Totals | 8.0 | Free |
List of Curium CEs Not Directly Related to Nuclear Medicine
Click here to see how to get your credits from Curium
SNMMI – 8.5 Free CE Credits
- 8.5 hours of free CEs for non-members
- These are webinar replays
- Many other credits available for free for members:
- All jounal article CEs
- Most webinar replays
- Technologist membership = approx. $117/yr
Webinar replays: You will have to sign up for an SNMMI website account to get these, but you don’t have to join the SNMMI as a member.
- If you do join, a Technologist membership costs $110/year + regional chapter dues.
- Regional dues are not much.
- For example the Pacific Southwest chapter dues are $7/year.
- If you did need 24 CE hours and you paid $117 to join, that would work out to $4.88/hour, which is a great deal.
Format: Journal Articles or Webinar Replays
You can read PDFs of articles from the Journal of Nuclear Medicine or the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology articles.
Or, you can watch a replay of an SNMMI webinar.
The post-tests are generally comprised of about 10 questions. The level of difficulty for the tests is fairly high.
List of SNMMI Free CE Webinars for Non-Members
Click here to see how to get your credits from SNMMI
ASNC – 6 Free CE Credits
- 6 free credits (only for members)
- Technologist Membership = $80/year (6 credits @ $13.33/credit hour)
It might be worth joining ASNC if you want to anyways & you’re up for some challenging CE’s.
For $80/year, you get the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology & discounts on meetings thrown in.
Format: JNC Articles with Post-Tests
ASNC’s continuing education credits are high-level, intended for cardiologists.
Many articles will have unfamiliar vocabulary.
However, if you’re into nuclear cardiology, and you’re an ASNC member, go for it– you’ll probably learn something interesting.
Attention Technical Directors of IAC Accredited Labs:
These 6 courses are also valid for your Interpreting Physicians to take as part of their IAC Nuclear/PET CME requirements. Each course is approved for 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.
- Plus there are many more CE activities available for physicians.
- Physician membership costs $295.
List of Free ASNC CEs For Members (As of 7/7/21)
CE Title | Hours | Cost |
---|---|---|
Prognostic Value of Coronary Flow Reserve in Patients With Suspected or Known Coronary Artery Disease Referred to PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Meta-Analysis | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Hybrid PET/MR Imaging in Myocardial Inflammation Post-Myocardial Infarction | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging for Diabetes: Key Points from the Evidence and Clinical Questions to be Answered | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Quantitative Clinical Nuclear Cardiology, Part 2: Evolving/Emerging Applications | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Nuclear cardiology in the context of multimodality imaging to detect cardiac toxicity from cancer therapeutics: Established and emerging methods | 1.0 | $50 / free for members |
Totals | 6.0 | $50 / free for members |
Click here to see how to get your credits from ASNC
Paid Nuclear Medicine CEs
NucMedTutorials.com
If you like physics, you’ll love NucMedTutorials.com.
NucMedTutorials.com offers 69 hours of VOICE approved nuclear medicine-related Continuing Education for CNMTs.
- All of these courses are also approved as CMEs for physicians, radiation physicists, nuclear pharmacists & nuclear pharmacy technicians.
So, if you’re a Technical Director of an IAC Accredited nuclear lab & you’re looking for nuclear medicine-related CMEs for your Cardiologists, these courses would do the trick.
- 1 credit courses are $20
- 2 credit courses are $30 ($15/CE)
- 3 credit courses are $40 ($13.33/CE)
Here’s a link detailing the California categories the courses qualify for. They also have a special promotion for California CNMTs.
The site has a slightly low tech feel, but it works great:
- You choose a course, download & read the PDF tutorial.
- Then you create an account on the testing site and take the test there. You must score 80% and you get 3 attempts.
- Then you go back to the main site to checkout & pay by PayPal or Credit Card.
They recommend you email them when you’re done taking all your courses. They’ll email you your certificates within 24 hours & will also snail mail you a paper copy.
Maybe a little low-tech, but the system works fine & they are dependable.
List of NucMedTutorials CEs:
Click here to see how to get your credits from NucMedTutorials.com
Your Input
Do you know of any other free or high quality online CEs for nuclear medicine technologists?
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