Nuclear medicine graduates from the University of Newcastle are sought after worldwide. In this rewarding and challenging degree, you’ll learn to diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases using radioactive substances – giving patients the best chance of living a full and healthy life.

Learn how to conduct nuclear medicine scans of a person’s body using radiopharmaceuticals. You’ll be using specialised equipment to track radiopharmaceuticals as they move through the body. These techniques help identify disease or injury at a very early stage.

You’ll have access to the latest technologies through placement opportunities and on campus in our world-class, purpose-built, health sciences precinct. This includes a radiopharmacy laboratory, CT laboratory, and nuclear medicine image processing software.

You’ll graduate with the confidence and competence to undertake professional practice as a nuclear medicine technologist/scientist.

You will be able to enrol in a range of radiation science courses including:

• anatomy
• molecular imaging
• nuclear medicine instrumentation and radiopharmacy
• nuclear medicine theory
• patient care
• physiology
• psychology
• research

2024 Program Handbook

The courses shown above are a guide, and don't reflect the exact year-by-year structure of the program, you should always refer to the program handbook for details of the complete program structure, course requirements and availability.

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Nuclear Medicine is a highly specialised degree. Our graduates are very employable and highly regarded. Many of our graduates have advanced rapidly in their careers and are now in management roles in Australia and overseas.

As a graduate you will be qualified to register and work as Nuclear Medical Technologists. You’ll work closely with patients and allied health professionals to diagnose life-threatening diseases such as cancer and help monitor a patient’s health.

Some common roles for medical radiation science graduates include:

• Nuclear Medicine Technologist/Scientist
• Sonographer
• MRI technologist
• Medical Imaging sales representative
• Applications specialist
• Radiopharmaceutical development and production
• University lecturer/academic
• Nuclear medicine researcher

Some roles within nuclear medicine may require further qualifications or experience beyond the degree level.

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

TOEFL paper-based test score of 589; TOEFL internet based score of 94; IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0; PTE GSE score of 65; Cambridge English: Advanced score of 67.