General Information

Lyell McEwin Hospital is a major public hospital for emergency, complex and multi day surgery, as well as providing day surgery and other procedures.

Lyell McEwin Hospital (LMH) is part of Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) which includes Modbury Hospital, Aboriginal Health care sites, GP plus clinics and Northern Mental Health services.

As one of South Australia’s major public hospitals we are also a teaching hospital and work closely with all 3 South Australian Universities to assist in the education and clinical training of a vast number of medical, nursing and allied health professionals across multiple disciplines.

The Nuclear Medicine Department

The Nuclear Medicine staff at LMH look forward to meeting you and contributing to your clinical development as a Nuclear Medicine Technologist.

The Nuclear Medicine Department is located directly adjacent to Medical Imaging (Radiology) on the ground floor.

Within our department, you will find 2 cameras (Siemens Symbia T16 and GE Discovery  670), and also get the opportunity to practice lab skills in our Laboratory.  

Post processing is done with Siemens Xcelerious.

There is also a dedicated room for Cardiac Stress Tests and a Bone Mineral Density camera.

Hours of service

Nuclear Medicine clinical hours are 8:30am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday.

On call services are available for inpatient work, however students are not required to participate in the on call roster.

Your placement hours will be 8.45am-5.00pm. On your first day of placement please arrive ready to start the working day by 8.45am.

Students are welcomed to our department, you will learn a lot over your time with us.  

Your Clinical Supervisor is Ms Elyse Connole.

Please arrive at 08:45am, and bring your Passport to Placement.

Sick Leave : Please call 8282 1408 at 08:45am to notify staff.