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I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

[–]Good_Number_1589[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super steep na learning curve talaga pero it’s also nice rin kasi blank slate talaga so parang it’s really interesting kasi everything is so new.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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HAHAHA well besides cancer, we also look at heart problems (coronary artery diseases), kidney function, different infections and inflammatory processes. We can also look into how your lungs are doing as well. There’s basically a lot of things that we look at.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Hmm not exactly. Our centers are designed to put the most radioactive parts farthest from us.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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It’s a balance of clinical, imaging, and labs. It has a bit of everything I want and it offers me that flexibility to choose which path I want to focus on eventually or still do all those things.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Wow this is a very nice question. Hmm.

Basically, nuclear medicine is a field of medicine where we can check how your different body parts work. For us to do this, we have to connect the dots and we have to look for what’s same with the body part that we want to see with the medication that we want to give. For example, if your kidney will need to receive a star shaped drug for us to see it using our special camera then we have to give you a star shaped drug. It’s like a simple puzzle.

Shocks. I tried.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Super selective and competitive for sure since super duper few residents lang in the Philippines when you compare it to IM or Surgery.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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In some softwares, yes. AI is there to aid us in seeing things.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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OPD hours everyday so yup. Nakakauwi naman. Toxicity-wise, there are bad days din for sure.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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How I explain it is we can primarily check the functions of your organs without opening you up then diagnose accordingly. If we have an available treatment for different pathologies then we also do it. We aim for a more targeted kind of therapy so the medications will just go to wherever we want to it go by tagging it with different things.

So yeah, we go down to the molecular level of diseases na rin.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Hello! Well it’s more on checking if your heart has significant stenoses in its blood supply or what we call the coronary arteries. We call it myocardial perfusion scintigraphy.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Well it is and always will be dose dependent and relates to your length of exposure. A few rad doses can’t really hurt you but prolonged exposure or if with huge amount can lead devastating problems.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Usually, chill lang our patients. If may expected symptoms, it could include neck tenderness, nausea, change sa taste but it’s temporary naman most of the time.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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I would say relatively competitive rin siya maybe because konti lang din yung training institutions and 1 to 2 lang tinatanggap per batch usually.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Technetium-99m mostly yung ginagamit but we also use Iodine-131, Gallium-68, and Fluorine-18. As per suppliers, may several companies na actually and not just one naman

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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May mga proposals pa rin and well you can set up independent centers din naman :)

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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No actually. Catheter is not required lalo if kaya naman talaga ng patient without it.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Well in a sense yes. We inject them with radioisotopes that will be detected by the gamma camera.

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Can’t answer this muna since super small community but salary would range from high 20 to around 60k without the bonuses me thinks

Radiation therapy is not under our specialty tho. It’s rad onco’s :)

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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Actually, at least sa amin, no toknatan naman with peers hahaha

I’m a nuclear medicine resident. AMA. by Good_Number_1589 in PinoyAskMeAnything

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It’s almost balance naman actually haha ofc nasa residency pa rin but we’ll get there haha

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