As of 2017, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) will be focusing its educational activities on its European School of Multimodality Imaging and Therapy (ESMIT) initiative.
The EANM board decided to implement a clear change to its school, the European School of Nuclear Medicine, said EANM President Dr. Arturo Chiti in an email announcing plans for the ESMIT.
"Our community needs not only to be educated on all modalities that are used in imaging, but also to be well prepared in the therapeutic applications of our discipline," Chiti said. "On top of this, EANM courses have to be attractive for our colleagues from the clinical specialties, from radiation oncology and from radiology."
Every year, two residential ESMIT schools will be held in partnership with university hospitals across Europe, according to the EANM. These three-day educational meetings will provide interactive, multimodality teaching on four different subjects; each track will last 1.5 days to enable attendees to study two different topics per meeting, the association said.
A spring school will be held from 31 March to 2 April in Groningen, Netherlands, while the autumn school will run from 1-3 September in Cluj, Romania. The spring school will include an oncology track focusing on thoracic and prostate cancer as well as a musculoskeletal track on multimodality imaging in musculoskeletal disease, while the autumn school will include pediatrics and a second oncology track, according to the EANM.
More information on the 2017 ESMIT schools can be found on the EANM's website
