AERB accords approval for M. Sc. Nuclear Medicine program at Panjab University.
Panjab University has been granted approval by Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of India to conduct M. Sc. program in Nuclear Medicine with Fortis hospital, Mohali, as clinical collaborative partner. Centre for Nuclear Medicine established in the year 2007, at Panjab University, was conducting the said program in collaboration with PGIMER, which discontinued as PGIMER started its own course. Recently, PU inked an MOU with Fortis hospital, Mohali, as collaborative partner, to impart clinical training to students in the second year of the program. To demonstrate high standards of professional skills and competency, the Centre has basic and state of art learning resource and research facility. The Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Prof Renu Vig, has expressed a deep sense of pleasure in restarting the course keeping in view student’s perspective, as the course promises to provide hundred percent placement after successful completion.
Realizing the need for trained human resource in the emerging and fast growing field of nuclear medicine, the program provides complete, up-to-date competency-based curriculum to train the students for national eligibility test to be designated as certified radiation safety officers and nuclear medicine physicists. The Centre has a strong alumni base, working with renowned institutes/hospitals across the country.
