Satisfying Program Level Outcomes by Integrating Primary Literature into the "Online" Classroom

Abstract

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, there has been a paradigm shift from traditional classroom instruction to a remote online modality. In an effort to expose students to the most current and relevant information in the field of Nuclear Medicine Technology without access to traditional resources found on a college campus, it has become imperative that access to primary literature within the field be made readily available. Nuclear Medicine Technology students at Bronx Community College are being taught to use the JNMT as the basis for their required presentations that span across the curriculum. Guided by the instructors and armed with a rubric ultimately used as a formative assessment tool, the students are required to explore current articles from the JNMT and ultimately present their findings to the cohort. By design, this “article share” project has successfully been implemented as a principal metric in satisfying JRC program requirements for accreditation, while also being conducive to increasing oral presentation skills and cohort socialization.