Building Program Efficiencies Utilizing JRCNMT Compliance Forms.

In the past, program assessment had been considered a supplemental activity that was designed to analyze program performance once instruction had concluded. This process was sometimes very much a summative activity that ignored the possibility of being able to change instruction throughout the implementation of the curriculum. However, the assessment process has evolved in such a way that it can now be considered an integral part of curriculum development. Forms J and L of the JRCNMT requirements for the annual report have recently been updated to support Nuclear Medicine Technology programs in their effort to meet and exceed industry standards. At Bronx Community College, the NMT program has taken advantage of the newly developed forms J and L to streamline program assessment. These modifications not only changed how assessment is implemented at the end of the program, but also how students are evaluated throughout their coursework.

Satisfying Program-Level Outcomes by Integrating Primary Literature into the Online Classroom.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a paradigm shift from traditional classroom instruction to remote online modalities. To provide the most current and relevant information on nuclear medicine technology to students without access to traditional resources on a college campus, it has become imperative that primary literature within the field be made readily accessible. Nuclear medicine technology students at Bronx Community College are being taught to use the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology as the basis for their required presentations, which span the curriculum. Guided by instructors who are armed with a rubric ultimately used as a formative assessment tool, the students are required to explore current articles from the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology and ultimately present their findings to their cohort. By design, this article-share project has successfully been implemented as a principal metric in satisfying the program accreditation requirements of the Joint Review Committee on Nuclear Medicine Technology while also being conducive to increasing oral presentation skills and cohort socialization.