Abstract
Because of the nature of the nuclear medicine discipline, clinical education of nuclear medicine technology students frequently emphasizes technical competence while minimizing the human dimension of the technologist’s role. Furthermore, the patient-technologist interaction may appear to students and their clinical instructors as a process that is learned through some inexplicable means or after years of experience. The development of an instructional module designed to characterize the nature of patient-professional relationships and to prepare students with the necessary interactional skills to facilitate those relationships is described.
