Internship Information
NMT students, that have been accepted into the program, can apply to any or all of the UW-L affiliated hospitals listed below. This is done during the Fall semester that precedes the internship year. Students are strongly encouraged to apply to all internship sites they are interested in. Applicants can use this recomendation form at any internship site except Mayo. Applicants can also use this application form at any internship site except Northwestern Memorial and Mayo. After they have evaluated the applications, the internship sites will then contact the students for interviews, which are often held during winter break. Assignment to an internship site is not guaranteed, but will take into account both the students' and the hospitals' preferences. Assignments are made in mid-March.
All internships run for 12 months as required by the Joint Review
Committee on Educational Programs in Nuclear Medicine Technology
(JRC-NMT),
which accredits the hospital education programs. Most of the hospitals
listed below begin their internships in late August - early September.
The
exceptions are: Aurora St. Luke's, which begins in mid-June; and Hines, which
starts at the beginning of July.
Because of recent cutbacks in state funding of higher education, it is now common for UW-L health professions majors to pay a clinical experience fee, in addition to their regular tuition and fees. This fee is charged to NMT students only during their internship year, and helps pay the capitation fees which the clinical sites charge the university. This fee will be $1,418 per semester during the 2008-09 academic year. To soften the blow of this added expense, segregated fees will be waived for all NMT interns until Spring 2009. This means you’ll save approximately $450 per semester on your tuition bill, and that you will not be able to use the services of the Student Health Center, Student Recreation Center, or Text Book Rental. Because of recent action by the Student Senate, all NMT interns will be required to pay segregated fees after Spring 2009.
Upon successful completion of the internship, graduates are eligible to take certification examinations from the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) and the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists® (ARRT). UW-L graduates have done very well on these exams, and have an excellent record of employment after graduation and certification. On average, NMT graduates earn some of the best salaries of any new B.S. graduate. Because of the strength and depth of our program, UW-L graduates are very competitive in the job market.
| Gary Eastman Program Director School of Nuclear Medicine Technology Hines VA Hospital Hines Illinois 60141 ph (708) 202-8387 ext 21976 fax (708) 202-2390 |
Nancy Hockert Program Director Nuclear Medicine Technology Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 ph (507) 284-3245 fax (507) 284-0656 |
| Carlyn Johnson Program Director Nuclear Medical Technology St. Joseph's Hospital 611 St. Joseph Ave. Marshfield, Wisconsin 54449 ph (715) 389-3905 fax (715) 387-7775 |
Nancy McDonald Program Director School of Nuclear Medicine Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, Illinois 60611 ph (312) 926-1777 fax (312) 926-8118 |
| Frank Steffel Program Director Nuclear Medicine Technology Program Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital 9200 W Wisconsin Ave. Milwaukee Wisconsin 53226 ph (414) 805-2071 fax (414) 771-3460 |
Kerry Michell Program Director Nuclear Medicine Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center 2900 W. Oklahoma Ave. Milwaukee Wisconsin 53215 ph (414) 649-7258 fax (414) 649-5118 |