Diagnostic Radiography (pre-registration) MSc

at University of Brighton

Course structure
 

This full-time programme will be a mix of clinical practice and academic study and runs for 45 weeks on each of the two years.
 

Clinical practice modules will be delivered throughout the programme with external clinical educators within NHS and private healthcare services.
 

This embedded approach allows you to engage in a diverse range of practice-based learning environments and is designed in a block pattern to consolidate recent academic learning.
 

Placements will account for around 50% of the course. You will work in several sites with additional specialist rotations to ensure you meet all learning outcomes for your practice-based learning.
 

Teaching at the university includes keynote lectures from subject specialists and expert patients, workshops, pre-recorded content, student led case-based group work, presentations, seminars, webinars, peer teaching and learning, guided independent study, self-directed study, clinically-based activities and e-learning including group work in Wikis and blogs, video analysis and discussion boards.
 

The final dissertation provides you with a project on a topic of your choice. 
 

You’ll be encouraged to be research active and this translates directly into developing creative relationships between teaching, learning and research.
 

Year 1
 

You’ll be introduced to diagnostic radiographic practice and to the principles of radiation physics, radiographic equipment, radiation protection, legislation and radiobiology to enable understanding of radiographic processes and safe practice for transfer into the clinical setting.
 

You will complete all required mandatory training prior to beginning clinical practice placements.
 

You will also study research methodology and its applications in healthcare, develop further science and technology comprehension in the specialist modalities, and complete an anatomy module which includes all body systems. Professional practice education will look at examinations on patients with additional needs, health promotion, contrast media and quality issues in radiography.
 

Your clinical placements in this year focus on radiographic technique and begin to introduce you to the specialist modalities to consolidate your academic learning.
 

Modules

• Introduction to Diagnostic Radiography and Radiation Physics
• Science and Technology in Diagnostic Radiography
• Anatomy, Physiology and Pathophysiology
• Professional Practice in Diagnostic Radiography
• MSc Practice Learning Diagnostic Radiography 1
   

Year 2
 

In the second year the professional focus is on understanding the wider scope of the role and factors affecting quality service provision to prepare you for practice as a qualified diagnostic radiographer.
 

Your clinical focus will be on special care groups and their management alongside completing your experience of the specialist modalities.  You will also complete an image interpretation module to include medicolegal aspects of radiographer reporting and performance measurement.
 

In addition you will produce a dissertation focusing on an area of subject specific professional practice to complete your MSc.
 

Modules

• Research Design and Ethics
• Image Interpretation
• Enhanced Professional Practice in Diagnostic Radiography
• MSc Practice Learning Diagnostic Radiography 2
• Dissertation
   

Degree and experience

• Typically an undergraduate degree of 2:2 or above.
• Candidates without a healthcare or science background may be considered with some evidence of having studied science, such as A-level biology, or with an appropriate level of recent practical experience in healthcare or science.
• Normally, applicants would be expected to provide recent evidence of formal study within the last five years.
• Observation experience in a radiography setting would be an advantage.
   

English language requirements

• IELTS 7.0 overall, with no part below 6.5.

International (full-time) - 16,612 GBP

There is a growing demand for radiographers.
 

To practice as a radiographer you need to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) – successful completion of our Diagnostic Radiography BSc(Hons) means that you'll be eligible to apply for HCPC registration. HCPC approval for this new course is pending and will be in place for the start of the course.
 

If you work for the NHS, you're likely to work in the radiology and imaging department providing a service for most departments within the hospital including accident and emergency, outpatients, operating theatres and wards. You may work in private clinics and hospitals.
 

As well working with other health professionals including healthcare scientists working in non-ionising imaging, you may supervise the work of radiography assistants or imaging support assistants.
 

You could choose to specialise in a particular type of imaging such as computerised tomography or sonography or working with a specific group of patients such as children or stroke patients.