Dear Editor: A degree never guarantees a job after graduation. But at the same time, schools have a responsibility to their students. Across Ohio, the field of nuclear medicine has only grown by twenty jobs since 2008. Even when you include employee turnover, there has only been 22 nuclear medicine job openings each year in the entire state. According to the Ohio Valley Society of Nuclear Medicine, there are currently six nuclear medicine programs in the state of Ohio. Just one of these the University of Findlay has been graduating thirty to forty students each semester. Because of all six programs, there are far more technologists than our region needs. This leaves students both young people and older students retraining into a new profession with large debts and few opportunities for employment. The online literature for these programs contains no mention of the real job prospects for graduates. Since the programs have not voluntarily informed their students, I ask that you share this letter so that these schools can no longer exploit their student's ignorance.
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