Nuclear Medicine Mentoring Program

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Nuclear Medicine Mentoring Program

• Simin Dadparvar, MD
• American College of Nuclear Physician

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Residents as Future Leaders

• The College of nuclear physicians values the
  future practice of nuclear medicine. This program
  is established to support and train the nuclear
  medicine residents and fellows to start and
  implement a successful career.
• Planning leadership classes for nuclear medicine
  trainees
• Mentorship program
• Where to find the jobs
• How to write your curriculum vitae (academic VS
  non academic centers)
• Basic interview skills

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Residents as Future Leaders II

• How to negotiate a contract
• Transitioning from class to career
• Networking your job connection
• Consultant role of nuclear medicine physicians
• Create a work ethic for career success
• Leasing the NM department from the hospital
• Running a successful out patient NM center
  cardiology, mobile PET, etc.
• Telemedicine application in nuclear medicine
• Nuclear Medicine outreach program The operation
  of PET/CT, who is responsible to read? State
  licensing for techs needs
• Other..

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ACNPs Mentorship Program

• Networking or mentoring is first about
  building relationships. If approached with
  respect and honesty, there does not have to be
  anything exploitive, apologetic, or schmoozy
  about it. Karen Young Kreeger
• Remember, both parties bring value to networking
  and mentoring relationship.

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Wise friend Odysseus entrusted to educate his son
Telemachus when he went off to fight the Trojan
war.
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Our Chief Want in Life Is Somebody who shall
make us what we can be
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Why Mentor Nuclear Medicine Residents?

• Make Nuclear Medicine residents more successful
  in residency and in transition to practice.
• Improve Nuclear Medicine residency program and
  the department.
• Guide how nuclear medicine physicians should
  practice?
• Impact and/or give back to the specialty.

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ACNPs Organizational Goals in Mentoring

• To assist the nuclear medicine trainees, i.e.
  residents, fellows researchers to fully develop
  their professional career, through a support
  system that augments guidance by nuclear medicine
  residency program directors.
• To complement ACNPs priority to recruit, retain
  and develop job opportunities for the competent
  and qualified nuclear medicine physicians and
  researchers in USA.
• To implement the proven success strategies of
  mentoring in career development in nuclear
  medicine field.

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The ACE Mentor

• A. Accessible
• C. Chemistry
• E. Expertise

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Mentoring Goals

• Increase potential for academic success, thus
  increase number of trainees who do well in
  program and pass the ABNM exam.
• Increase collaboration and net working
  opportunities.
• Provide a structured system for strengthening and
  assuring the continuity of the nuclear medicine
  physicians and researchers as a specialist.

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Mentoring Objectives

• Resident and/or fellow as mentee will select a
  junior or senior ACNP member who will guide them
  in preparing for the future job opportunities in
  academic centers, private practice and/or
  industry.
• The relationship between mentor and mentee should
  be kept professional and confidential.

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How to find the best Mentor

• There is a myth that mentoring-beyond the medical
  school period-shows weakness.
• The residents fellows have no longer the luxury
  of time to experiment and fail in this rapidly
  changing, productivity oriented, competitive
  environment.
• Assuming an unfamiliar responsibilities needs
  guidance from mentors to learn the written and
  unwritten rules.
• Mentorship relationships ultimately helps both
  individuals and nuclear medicine professionals to
  reach their goals.

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Mentors are all around you

• Clarify your needs as crisply as possible.
  Determine what you need most. Identify
  individuals of any rank who can help you with
  each of your needs.
• Recognize what mentors can and can not do. They
  can offer valuable advice, be a sounding board,
  provide a boost to your confidence, smooth your
  path, and help you survive crisis. But your
  effort would make it happen to reach your goal.

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Mentor Part teacher, counselor,
parent
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Mentors are all around you

• Respect the time limits available for mentoring
  in todays time-pressured world. If your mentor
  is across USA, take track of time and his/her
  busy schedule when trying to establish contact.
• Recognize that mentoring is mutually rewarding,
  reciprocal relationship. You have skills and
  obligation to give something back to your mentor.
  Show appreciation to your mentor and build
  his/her reputation as a skilled and desired
  resource.

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A strong leader knows if he develops his
associates he will be even stronger

-James F.
Lincoln
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How to approach your Mentor?

• The way not to approach your mentor is to ask
  Please be my mentor
• Instead ask explicitly for what you have
  determined your need, and the estimated time you
  may require for assistance.
• Let your mentor know that you will be available
  to provide whatever expertise you can if
  required.

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Mentoring Responsibilities-I

• Mentee ask for career, professional and personal
  advice on issues of education, research,
  marketing, academic and private practice job
  prospects, salary negotiation, be available for
  net working opportunities and introduction to key
  individuals by mentors.

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Mentoring Responsibilities-II

• Mentor guide mentee in professional and personal
  issues participation in open, honest goal
  setting and feed back in career development
  introduce mentee to individuals who can
  facilitate professional advancement, advising for
  further training as needed in cardiology,
  oncology, Positron Emission Tomography, Computed
  Axial Tomography, etc.

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Mentoring Responsibilities-III

• Both
• 1.Complete Mentor/Mentee Agreement and send to
• Nikki Wenzel Lambert, MBA
• American College of Nuclear Physicians
• 1850 Samuel Morse Drive
• Reston, VA 20191
• 2.Participate in yearly evaluation.

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Mentoring Time Commitment

• 1-3 year partnership beginning in the 1st or 2nd
  year of the mentees nuclear medicine residency,
  continuing through the first year advancement to
  practice as nuclear medicine physician or
  scientist after graduation.
• Contact established by mentee.
• Recommended guidelines monthly contact through
  e-mail and/or telephone, more frequent contacts,
  at agreed upon intervals.

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Benefit to Mentee

• Guidance in proper involvement in educational and
  research activities, facilitating the advancement
  to employment in an appropriate job environment.
• Feed back on academic progress.
• Acknowledgement of mentees unique abilities and
  potential for improvement.
• Support and experienced guidance in self managing
  career development.
• Increased network of contacts and resources for
  support.

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Benefit to Mentee II

• You have the chance to interact with true leaders
  in our profession.
• To receive first hand exposure to the amazing
  experiences and camaraderie in our field.
• Mentoring requires mutually satisfactory inter
  personal relationship between a resident and the
  mentor.

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Benefits to Mentor

• Sharing the wisdom and experience
• Learning from the expanded view of experience of
  the residents and fellows.
• Recognition by Mentee for Mentors academic and
  professional achievements.
• Involvement in collaborations enhancing Mentors
  Professional activity.
• Acknowledgement by the ACNPs Residents as Future
  Leaders Program.-

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Benefits to Mentor II

• Help with academic productivity.
• Bring prestige to the department.
• Recognition
• Internal value
• As a mentor, you can watch maturity and growth of
  the resident or the fellow.
• Establish an important bond with a colleague in
  the field and be advocate and adviser.

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Mentoring Application

• Name_____________________________________________
  ______________
• Title____________________________________________
  ________________
• Nuclear Medicine/ Radiology Department___________
  ____________________
• Address__________________________________________
  ___________
• ____________________________________________
  _______________
• Telephone__________________________________
• Fax_______________________________________
• E-mail_____________________________________
• Resident/ Fellow_________________________________
  ______
• (Learning from the junior or senior faculty the
  professional skills to work as a nuclear medicine
  physician or radiologist (1-2 year))
• Junior ACNP member -------------------------
  -----------------------------------------
• (Preparing the residents/ fellows for passing the
  board examination and career development for the
  academic, private practice or industry position
  (1-2 year))
• Senior ACNP member ------------------------------
  ----------------------------------
• (Providing guidance for the residents/fellows in
  preparing for research, grant writing, consulting
  and guidance of how to start a new career
  including exploring private practice or industry
  (1-2 year))

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Mentoring Application

• Please check the areas that you as Junior member
  or Senior member of ACNP can provide guidance and
  expertise
• ___Role of Nuclear Medicine Physicians as
  consultants
• ___Writing Curriculum Vitae for academic or
  private practice position
• ___Effective job interview
• ___Preparing for Nuclear Medicine board
  certification
• ___Salary range for physicians in academia,
  private practice or industry
• ___Supervisory skills to technologists, medical
  students and residents
• __ Effective learning of other imaging
  modalities CT, MRI, US
• ___Building a network of professional colleagues
  across the country

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Mentoring Application

• ___Collaborating on projects with professional
  colleagues, basic or clinical research
• ___Interpersonal skills, listening, building
  trust and resolving conflict
• ___Balancing professional personal life as
  resident/fellow
• ___Successful marketing of Nuclear Medicine
  Department
• ___Radionuclide therapy, ins and out for success
• ___Job availabilities in academic, private
  practice and pharmaceutical companies
• ___Basic interview skills
• ___Negotiation for salary
• ___Setting goals, establishing priorities and
  managing time
• ___Designing /giving presentations
• ___Managing meetings
• ___Writing abstracts, designing research projects
• ___Writing for peer reviewed publications
• ___How to start a private Nuclear Medicine
  venture
• ___How to run a successful outpatient cardiology,
  bone densitometry or PET program
• ___Telemedicine application in Nuclear Medicine
• ___Operation of PET/CT, licensing for reading CT
• ___Other

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Mentoring Application

• Residents/ Fellows
• Complete the Mentoring Relationship worksheet.
• Review your objectives for the Mentoring program.
• Review the Mentor List of Expertise and Interest
  from the website www.acnponline.org. Identify
  possible Mentors from the list.
• Contact with a potential Mentor to see if you
  share goals, objectives and interests. The name
  and contact information is on the website.
• You may contact multiple Mentors to find the
  faculty member(s) who best meets your needs.
• After you have asked a Mentor to be your partner,
  complete the Partnership Relationship Agreement.
• Send a copy of the Partnership Relationship
  Agreement to
• Please return completed Partnership Relation
  Agreement to
• American College of Nuclear Physicians
• 1850 Samuel Morse Drive
• Reston, VA 20190-5316
• Attention Residents Mentorship program
• Fax Attn. Nikki Wenzel Lambert at (703)
  708-9020
• E-mail nwenzel_at_snm.org
• If you have any questions, please e-mail Simin
  Dadparvar, M.D. at Sdadparvar_at_aol.com

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Mentoring Partnership Agreement

• Mentoring Partnership involve an agreement
  between a junior and/or senior ACNP member with
  the residents and fellows. The Mentoring
  Partnership begins at the onset of residency or
  fellowship and continues for 1-2 years. Having
  defined your goals, you may list specific actions
  to achieve them.
• Please list your objective of the Mentorship
  Partnership from the application
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• Specific actions to achieve the objectives
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• To achieve these objectives, we agree to the
  following arrangements
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Mentoring Partnership Agreement

• Address
• 
  _____________________________________________
• 
  _____________________________________________
• Telephone________________________
  Fax____________________________
• E-mail________________________________________
• Mentor (Junior or Senior Faculty)________________
  ___________________________
• Title____________________________________________
  _______________________
• Department (Academic or Non Academic)_____________
  ________________________
• Address ________________________________
  _________________________
• __________________________
  __________________________________
• ___________________________
  _________________________________
• Telephone _______________________ Fax
  __________________________________
• E-mail___________________________________________
  ______________________
• Please return completed Agreement to
• American College of Nuclear Physicians
• 1850 Samuel Morse Drive
• Reston, VA 20190-5316

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Mentorship Award

• ACNP will honor the outstanding mentor award for
  each year.
• The annual evaluation of the mentors by mentees
  are necessary to be turned in by December of each
  year.
• The Best Mentor will be awarded at the Annual
  meeting.
• ACNPs Best Mentor Award established in 2005 and
  thus far the recipients of the Mentor of the year
  award were as follows

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ACNP Best Mentor of the Year Award

• Abass Alavi, MD 2006
• S. Ted Treves, MD 2007
• Simin Dadparvar, MD 2008
• Trence Beven, MD 2009

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2009 ACNP Mentors

• Simin Dadparvar, MD
• Richard Vitti, MD
• Reneé M. Moadel, MD
• Patrice K. Rehm, MD
• Hussein M. Abdel-Dayem, MD
• Warren H. Moore, MD
• Barbara Croft, PhD

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How to become ACNP Member?

• Membership applications are available at
• www.acnponline.org.
• There is no membership fee for residents or
  fellows in training.
• In 2010, ACNP residents members will receive the
  Clinical Nuclear Medicine Journal Online at a
  very
• discounted price.
• Nuclear Medicine Resident Organization e-
  community is
• acnp_ro_at_acnponline.org.