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European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging 2/2022

Open Access 01-01-2022 | COVID-19 | Editorial

Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic mediated changing trends in nuclear medicine education and training: time to change and scintillate

Authors: Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Diana Paez, Mike Sathekge, Francesco Giammarile, Stefano Fanti, Arturo Chiti, Henry Bom, Sobhan Vinjamuri, Thomas NB Pascual, Jamshed Bomanji

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 2/2022

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The world is amidst a COVID-19 pandemic. It started in December 2019, when a new type of coronavirus 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2, causing the COVID-19 disease, was extracted and identified from the patient’s lower respiratory tract samples in Wuhan, China [1]. The pandemic has shaken the social, economic, political, environmental, and technology worldwide. Specifically, it shook the scientific and health structures worldwide, and we are still yet to recover as new strains of the virus pose a further threat to society. When writing this article, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed cases 101,406,059 of COVID-19, including 2,191,898 deaths [2]. There is a significant strain on health care systems to provide essential services amidst the pandemic while protecting the health care workers and patients. Several countries are currently offering the COVID-19 vaccine to people at high risk and several frontline workers. The World Health Organization (WHO) published COVID-19: Operational Guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak [3]. In the nuclear medicine community, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) organized a series of webinars on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic as it affects nuclear medicine services and discussed the challenges including education and training [4, 5]. …
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Metadata
Title
Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic mediated changing trends in nuclear medicine education and training: time to change and scintillate
Authors
Gopinath Gnanasegaran
Diana Paez
Mike Sathekge
Francesco Giammarile
Stefano Fanti
Arturo Chiti
Henry Bom
Sobhan Vinjamuri
Thomas NB Pascual
Jamshed Bomanji
Publication date
01-01-2022
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword
COVID-19
Published in
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-021-05241-2

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