Membership Guidelines
Membership Application GUIDELINES
All Nuclear Medicine professionals with shared needs and philosophies are encouraged to join.
Ordinary membership to RAINS is open to those Nuclear Medicine professionals sharing the needs and philosophies characteristic of rural Australia; underpinned by "professional, social and cultural isolation". To that end, ordinary membership is open to those Nuclear Medicine professionals employed in a Nuclear Medicine practice that satisfies any one of the following criteria:
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Practice located in a centre that the Federal Government Rural, Regional and Metropolitan Area (RRMA or equivalent) classification deems either rural or remote.
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Practice located in a centre that is more than 200 km from the state capital.
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Practice located in a centre that is more than 100 km from nearest other nuclear medicine practice.
Associate membership to RAINS is open to:
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Students not actively employed in Nuclear Medicine who are undertaking undergraduate or post graduate studies in Nuclear Medicine at any Australian university and who come from a RRMA classified rural or remote centre.
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Nuclear Medicine professionals employed in a Nuclear Medicine centre that does not meet the criteria for ordinary membership but who believe issues of professional isolation have a deleterious impact on professional development. Examples of such isolation include, but are not limited to; academics, researchers, company representatives and regional isolation with a small Nuclear Medicine network (e.g. Newcastle, Central Coast, Gold Coast).
Ordinary membership entitlements include, but are not limited to:
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Newsletter (electronic)
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Networking (eg. research, problem solving, reduce professional isolation)
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CPD activities (e-journal club, e-grand rounds, e-seminars etc)
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Representation
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Support
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Full voting rights
Associate membership entitlements include, but are not limited to:
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Newsletter (electronic)
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Networking (eg. research, problem solving, reduce professional isolation)
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CPD activities (e-journal club, e-grand rounds, e-seminars etc)
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Representation
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Support