The VirRAD Mission Statement

The aim of the VirRAD platform is to create a virtual community to facilitate communication between all members of the worldwide Radiopharmaceutical community and by doing so, help them to:

• share ideas and disseminate best practice
• surmount practical obstacles and solve everyday difficulties
• develop innovative solutions to universal problems
• create a remote learning resource
• promote the continuing contribution of the specialty to science and health-care

VirRAD will:

• create a Learning Environment that will address the needs of Student Radiopharmacists, through the provision of courseware to the syllabus agreed upon by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine
• create a powerful Learning Environment capable of developing the Student's Meta-Cognitive abilities associated with "transferable skills" and "learning to learn"
• create the Community and Learning Environment in such a manner as to achieve the cost - learning effectiveness targets to be defined by the Expert User Group