ProgramCIP 61.1201

Nuclear Medicine Residency Program

A residency training program that prepares physicians to use the tracer principle, most often with radiopharmaceuticals, to evaluate molecular, metabolic, physiologic and pathologic conditions of the body for the purposes of diagnosis, therapy and research. Includes instruction in tracer kinetics, the biologic effects of radiation exposure, the fundamentals of the physical sciences, and the principles and operation of radiation detection and imaging systems. This CIP code is not valid for IPEDS reporting.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Replaces earlier code 60.0418.