I have a question about a nuclear medicine physician

Question

I was wondering, how do you become one? How long does it take? Its the job " Hard"? & do you have to be super smart at math to become one? & what kind of GPA do you think you need to have to get accepted into medical school to bcome one? thanks!

Answer 1

As with many specialties, the field of nuclear medicine is expanding rapidly as new discoveries allow better, less invasive diagnosis and treatment options. Sutter Roseville's Nuclear Medicine Department actively works to bring the benefits of the most recent advances to as many patients as possible.

Doctors Frederick Weiland, M.D., FACNP and Penny Vande Streek, D.O., FACNP consult formally and informally with physicians throughout the region to design the best approach for each patient's particular case. The extensive capabilities of the department include multiple cameras and an array of software applications that allow flexibility to address many clinical issues and patient imaging concerns. The referring doctors can speak with the nuclear medicine physicians to discuss the specific needs or concerns of a particular case and determine the best nuclear medicine imaging approach to evaluate the patient's condition.

Clinical Trials

In addition to FDA-approved protocols, the department is active in clinical research. The nature of clinical trials allows patients to receive leading-edge services before they become widely available. The nuclear medicine physicians at Sutter Roseville Medical Center have been involved in numerous investigational protocols, including a number of multi-center trials. Their work has contributed to the FDA approval of radiopharmaceuticals and medicine currently employed in nuclear medicine imaging and therapy. Frederick Weiland, M.D., FACNP serves on the Sutter Health Central Area Institutional Review Committee and has acted as an investigator in more than 70 research projects. Penny Vande Streek, D.O., FACNP has been involved in many research protocols, including multi-center trials and international research projects.

Dr. Weiland earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio and completed his internship and internal medicine residency at the U.S. Air Force's Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. He received his nuclear medicine fellowship through the affiliated programs of Wilford Hall Medical Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Brooks Army Hospital and Audie Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and American Board of Nuclear Medicine. He has served in a variety of administrative capacities, including program director for both nuclear medicine residency and technologists training programs and a member of the Sutter Health Central Area Institutional Review Committee. He is currently an associate clinical professor of radiology at the University of California at Davis. He is a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians and member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. He has been involved in more than 80 presentations and scientific exhibits and has 40 papers published or in press. Dr. Weiland is co-medical director of the Nuclear Medicine Department at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. Currently Dr. Weiland serves as liaison for Sutter Roseville to the Kaiser Permanente medical technologist training program.

Penny Vande Streek, D.O., FACNP

Dr. Vande Streek graduated from the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa and completed her internal medicine residency at the U.S. Air Force's Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. She received her nuclear medicine fellowship through the affiliated programs of Wilford Hall Medical Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Brooks Army Hospital and Audie Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital. While in the U.S. Air Force, she served as the chief of Nuclear Cardiac Imaging and Research as well as the chief of Air Force Positron Emission Tomography. She was also an assistant professor of radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and taught radiology residents, nuclear medicine fellows and technologists. Currently, Dr. Vande Streek is co-medical director for the Nuclear Medicine Department at Sutter Roseville Medical Center. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. She is a member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians. She has served in a number of hospital and professional organizations, including the board of regents for the American College of Nuclear Physicians. Dr. Vande Streek is active in research and has been involved in multi-center trials and has consulted and participated in international presentations and research protocols.