MSc PGDip PGCert Diagnostic Imaging

For the ‘Course’

A degree or diploma in diagnostic radiography or any other relevant professional qualification.

Students must be registered to practice as a health practitioner in accordance with the professional requirements of their country.

For an individual ‘Module’

Professional qualifications. Students must be registered to practice as a health practitioner in accordance with the professional requirements of their country.

Non-standard entry

The University will select non-standard entrants to the programme in the following ways:

All applications are assessed individually.  Some flexibility may be exercised to the admissions criteria for students wishing to study individual modules for CPD. Some variation in terms of professional background and education may be accepted and will be considered individually by the course director.  Regardless of these conditions, applicants must be able to satisfy the course director and admissions team of their suitability and ability to successfully complete the program of study applied for.

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Core modules

• Research in health & social care (20 credits)
• Foundations of image interpretation  (20 credits)
• MSc dissertation for Allied Health Sciences (40 or 60 credits)

Optional specialist modules

• Concepts of children and young people imaging (20 credits)
• Protecting and safeguarding children and young people (20 credits)
• Specialist skills development – preliminary clinical evaluation in the acute setting (40 credits) – SINGAPORE ONLY
• Specialist skills development – breast imaging (40 credits) – SINGAPORE ONLY

Specialist modules from the PgC Breast Imaging course and the PgC/PgD Radiographic Reporting course can also contribute to the PgD/MSc Diagnostic Imaging awards.

• Radiographic skeletal reporting – axial skeleton (20 credits) Taught only
• Radiographic reporting – appendicular Skeleton (40 credits) Taught only
• Advances in specialised skeletal imaging (20 credits) Taught only
• Mammography theory (20 credits)
• Mammography practice (40 credits)
• Mammography image interpretation and reporting (40 credits)
• Clinical breast examination and communication skills (20 credits)
• Breast ultrasound for ultrasonographers (40 credits)
• Breast ultrasound (60 credits)
• Ultrasound guided interventional procedures (20 credits)

Optional non-specialist (generalist) modules

• Intravenous administration of pharmaceutical substances for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Taught only.
• Mentorship for allied health professionals (20 credits)
• Innovation for excellence – leading service change (20 credits) Taught only
• Ethics and law in professional practice (20 credits) Taught only
• Enhancing Practice through Work Based Learning
• Leadership and quality improvement for allied health professionals (20 credits) Online only
• An introduction to counselling skills for health care professionals(20 credits) Taught only
• An introduction to teaching in higher education for allied health professionals (20 credits) Taught only
• Entrepreneurship for allied health professionals (20 credits)
• An introduction to economic evaluation for allied health professionals (20 credits) Online only