Nuclear cardiology specialty examination technical report.

This report summarizes the development, administration, and scoring of the nuclear cardiology specialty examination offered by the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in Toronto, Canada, on June 23, 2001. During the NMTCB meeting in the fall of 2000, the Board approved the development and administration of an advanced practice nuclear cardiology examination in response to a formal request from the Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section and the Nuclear Cardiology Committee. Many years of experience in developing and setting standards for the entry-level nuclear medicine certification examination aided the NMTCB in taking on this new responsibility. From its existing members, the NMTCB formed an ad hoc nuclear cardiology specialty examination committee composed of technologists, educators, a pharmaceutical specialist, a physician, and psychometric staff. The task of writing the examination began immediately.