Teaching Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

Nuclear medicine (NM) has been taught in the medical program at the University of Bergen (UiB) since 2006. Despite many incremental improvements in content delivery including a full set of online lectures since 2006, my teaching failed to captitative my target audience, leading to disappointing student responses over many years. The new curriculum “Medisin 2015” introduced e-learning/blended learning based on UiB’s new learning management system (LMS) https://mitt.uib.no, while at the same reducing the volume of face-to-face (F2F) teaching. This forced me to redesign my teaching in NM from the ground up. Inspired by team-based learning, I introduced each course module by new succinct online-lectures, followed by an online readiness assessment test (RAT) in the LMS. To engage the entire audience during the F2F sessions, I not only taught with live case in interactive format as under the old curriculum but introduced a classroom response system. Finally, I shifted the focus from transferring knowledge to teaching PET/CT reading competency both in the third and the fifth year. In the following I describe my development as a university teacher and outline my teaching philosophy.