The professional phase starts in the junior year, and includes a combination of didactic classes and clinical laboratory sessions focused on nuclear medicine. In order to provide students with the skills necessary to function competently as nuclear medicine graduates senior students go through a series of clinical rotations. These rotations help to ensure that they have had adequate clinical experiences to prepare them to work safely and competently as Nuclear Medicine technologists. After successfully fulfilling all of the program requirements, our students are eligible to sit for nationally recognized certification board examinations (for the last 13 years we have maintained a 100% first attempt pass rate). Every effort is taken to keep class sizes small (12 or fewer students per didactic class and 1-3 students per clinical rotation site). The advantage of this approach is that students receive personalized attention and have ample opportunities to interact with the staff and faculty on a one-on-one basis.

Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound, Radiography and Nuclear Medicine form the "Medical Imaging Cluster" within the School of Health Professions at the University of Missouri-Columbia, The grouping of these three programs within a single department provides unique benefits and opportunities for students allowing them to have more flexibility in their academic and professional development and education.

Students in these programs enjoy the advantages of pre-professional requirements that share many common components followed by professional curricula that build on this foundation by adding current, profession-specific core courses. The School of Health Profession's multi-disciplinary setting affords access to an experienced faculty and an administration whose backgrounds and credentials represent all three professions.