2025 Nuclear Medicine ST3 Self-Assessment Guidance

A significant exposure means a period of at least 3 whole day equivalent time attached to a clinical radiology/nuclear medicine department. Examples are listed below.

• A taster week/observership placement.
• A student-selected component, elective, or similar part of a degree course.
• A radiology/nuclear medicine based clinical (not lab) research project involving presence in a department/working with a radiologist.

Multiple exposures must be meaningfully different; for example, more than 1 of the above types. 2 taster weeks in different settings would qualify for the highest descriptor and score 10 points, but 2 taster weeks offering the same experience would not and would score 6.

Evidence for this section could include the following:

• Letter confirming placement from your clinical supervisor/education lead
• Official university documents confirming radiology-based placement/component
• Details of a radiology/nuclear medicine-based project with evidence of your involvement from your supervising consultant
• Course/conference certificate

Any roles claimed above must have been for a minimum period of 6 months. 

For UK applicants - national refers to activity within the England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or the UK as a whole. Local would mean at the level of a hospital single Trust or University. Roles outside healthcare include voluntary activity, arts, and other sciences, but not paid employment.

Appropriate evidence would include confirmation of election/appointment, evidence of attendance at committee meetings, letters from chair or senior figure within relevant organisation. Evidence should specify the applicant by name, the role, and major responsibilities thereof.

 For the purposes of this section a formal teaching programme should have a duration of at least 3 months in total.

A major contribution means a leading or organising role, such as a formal teaching fellowship or personally organising a formal, multi-session teaching course. National or international programmes should be open to all relevant learners in that discipline and would usually form part of a formal qualification, such as Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree, specialty diploma etc.

Local or regional programmes would be organised at the level of, for example, a single hospital Trust, and could include Foundation Programme teaching or similar activities. Formal teaching outside medicine, for example, to school students or in the community can also be included.

One-off, small group teaching would qualify in the third descriptor, as would evidence of solely delivering a single session to a larger local or national programme.

Appropriate evidence would include (evidence of teaching in a paid for course is not deemed appropriate evidence):

• Official documentation indicating your role as an organiser or deliverer of teaching.
• Contemporaneous feedback collated or countersigned by a 3rd party.

Evidence should be in the form of either an official degree certificate or attandance certificate or transcript clearly stating the qualification and indicating the level of study.

For this section only, formal teaching qualifications obtained prior studying medicine can be scored (for example, if you completed a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) before your medical degree).

Leading an audit/Quality Improvement (QI) project would usually include a major role in conception, data collection, analysis, and presentation. If your evidence does not demonstrate this, please select a different descriptor appropriately.

Evidence required:

• A letter from supervising consultant or QI/audit project stating level of involvement to satisfy the requirements described in the table above. The letter must be signed (can be digital signature to reproduce a physical signature) and include:
  • Consultant name and GMC number (or corresponding national medical registration equivalent)
  • Date

and

• Copy of audit project presentation outlining scope and impact (findings and improvements achieved) of project or, a summary of the project detailing scope and impact of the project

Demonstration of changed practice could be via a closed-loop second audit cycle showing better compliance to gold standard, or by improvement in a quality metric etc.

Relating to radiology/nuclear medicine means that diagnostic imaging formed a major part of the project. 

Please note, as mentioned above, intercalated and additional undergraduate degrees have been removed from scoring according to national specialty recruitment policy. (Points scored in this section are only for postgraduate achievements).

All activity in this section should be scientific. Relating to radiology/nuclear medicine means the project should involve diagnostic imaging. This does not preclude papers in other fields such as surgery, oncology and so forth if they have a significant imaging focus. Publications and presentations can relate to audit/QI activity.

Presentations should be proffered papers which have been through a process of peer-review and:

Copy of letter of acceptance of oral/poster presentation or copy of event programme citing presentation to include:

• The name of presenter or first author
• The institution convening meeting
• The date of the meeting/presentation

Evidence could include:

• Degree certificate
• Your Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier (ORCID) summary
• Citation including DOI/indexing service identifier (for example, PMID)
• Conference catalogue 

To be eligible, a prize must have been open to all peers at that level of training and geographic region, so to all medical undergraduates and/or postgraduates within a nation, region, or specific locality. A single hospital Trust, University or similar would constitute a “local” organisation.