Clinical Audit Session
This session is organized under the auspices of the Section and Board of Nuclear Medicine of the UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists, President Prof. John O. Prior, Lausanne, CH), which offers a program of accreditation of nuclear medicine departments and training center (Chair Dr. Aurora Crespo De La Jara, Alicante, ES), a European Board of Nuclear Medicine giving the title of Fellow of the European Board of Nuclear Medicine (FEBNM) upon passing the written and oral part of the examinations (Chair Dr. Ilona Kulakiene, Kaunas, LT), as well as providing independent continuing medical education credits according to EACCME (Chair Mohsen Farsad, Bozen, IT) and being responsible to maintain the Educational Training Requirements (ETR) for the specialty of nuclear medicine with the syllabus (Chair Prof. Roland Hustinx, Liège, BE).
This year, the Clinical Audit Session will be focusing of the process and the reason for a nuclear medicine department to get accredited, the possibility to do it with the IAEA QUANUM pathway instead of a formal ISO9001:2015 certification, as well as the latest guiding principles for training in theranostics, and a 2024 update in the ethical practice of nuclear medicine.
Date: Tuesday October 22, 2024
Time: 08:00-09:30
Location: Hall X8 (Level 1, Congress Centre Hamburg – CCH)
Programme
| Time | Title | Presenters |
| 08:00–08:05 | Welcome and introduction | Dr. John Prior, Lausanne, CH Dr. Aurora Crespo De La Jara, Alicante, ES |
| 08:05–08:20 | Process and advantages of accrediting a NM Department or Training programme | Dr. Aurora Crespo De La Jara, Alicante, ES |
| 08:20–08:45 | IAEA-QUANUM: An Update, including Theranostic Centre | Dr. Francesco Giammarile, Vienna, AT |
| 08:45–09:10 | Guiding principles for training in theranostics | Dr. Andrew Scott, Melbourne, AU |
| 09:10–09:25 | Ethical Practice of Nuclear Medicine in 2024 | Dr. Sobhan Vinjamuri, Liverpool, GB |
| 09:25–09:30 | Picture of the Accredited Centres since last EANM | Dr. John Prior, Lausanne, CH Dr. Aurora Crespo De La Jara, Alicante, ES |