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Nuclear Medicine Residency Program

Evaluation and Salary

Evaluation and Feedback

Written feedback from the faculty and proven case performance is supplied to the residents during personal semiannual meetings with the Program Director. Residents are required to take the ABNM In-Service Training Examination yearly. Anonymous written feedback of the program and the faculty is solicited from the residents semi-annually.

Physics and Radiobiology

These courses are taught by the imaging physics faculty in the department on a continuing basis and comprehensively reviewed in the year in which the resident is to take the written boards.

Salary, Benefits and Vacation

Residents in all University of Maryland programs receive a standard stipend based on their post graduate year and a standard set of benefits. Fringe benefits include the following: three weeks vacation leave per year plus several extra days during the Christmas / New Year period; up to two weeks sick leave per year, health and dental insurance subsidized by the employer, employer paid life insurance, employer paid short and long term disability insurance, and paid parking. All residents may receive laundry service.

Salaries paid to residents at the University of Maryland School of Medicine during 2008-2009 will be:

All University of Maryland residents and fellows are provided professional liability coverage through the Maryland Medical Center Insurance Program for activities performed on behalf of UMMS while working within the scope of employment, performed within the delineation of clinical privileges and in accordance with specified Terms and Conditions of Coverage.

Coverage provided annually is in limits of liability of at least $1 million per claim / $3 million per aggregate.

Attendance at society meetings and postgraduate courses is supported financially up to $1,500 in the second year of the program. Up to $1,500 may be used for the purchase of books in lieu of this meeting support. Additional funds are available in any year for presentation of research papers that are submitted for publication in a juried journal.


For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).