Radiography: Oncology Practice PgCert/PgDip/MSc

Choose Kingston's Radiography: Oncology Practice MSc

Radiography exists in a changing professional environment and requires practitioners to continually update and review clinical practice. This course provides a flexible framework to prepare you for advanced practice by studying topics relevant to your needs and those of your clinical departments.

This route, which is one of four radiography pathways, is aimed at therapeutic radiographers. The course is offered as either a part-time block release course or as a full-time course.

You may be granted credits for your previous academic and professional qualification through Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL) scheme. You can take individual modules as 'free standing' as part of your continuing professional development (CPD). An independent work-based learning module enables you to study around your individual CPD and workplace needs.

What will you study?

You will study modules relating to clinical roles, management, practice education, supervisory and assessment roles, quality issues, research methods and ethics, as well as taking a module of independent study to meet a particular professional need or interest.

Assessment

Case studies; research protocols; dissertation; essays; portfolios; practical assessment; OSCE; reflective log book.

The postgraduate admissions administrator will help you choose the most suitable combination of modules depending on your needs. Some of the modules are developed in partnership with healthcare providers.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.

For more information download the following documents:

• Information for home/EU applicants (PDF)
• Information for international applicants (PDF)

Available modules (Home/EU students)

• Research and Evidence Based Practice in Healthcare (for PgDip)
• Dissertation (for MSc)
• Advanced Practice - Negotiated Independent Work Based Learning
• Cross-sectional Imaging - Therapeutic
• Oncology Practice
• PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) Administration

• PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) Administration

  This module provides you with a broad overview of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) from image capture and storage, to operational management within the modern healthcare environment. The module aims to develop the knowledge required to enable Healthcare Professionals to provide effective day to day PACS administration within a modern radiology department.

  In addition, you will be able to appreciate the application of digital imaging technologies at an advanced level within your own working practice. This knowledge will in turn lay the foundation for a more strategic managerial understanding of the use of digital imaging systems as a critical part of radiology service management.

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• Management of Resources and Quality within Healthcare
• Practice Education and Mentorship+

• Practice Education and Mentorship+

  + Satisfactory completion of the Practice Education and Mentorship module confers eligibility for accreditation under the College of Radiographers Practice Educators Accreditation Scheme (PEAS).

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Available modules (International students)

• Research and Evidence Based Practice in Healthcare (for PgDip)
• Dissertation (for MSc)
• Advanced Practice - Negotiated Independent Work Based Learning
• Cross-sectional Imaging - Therapeutic
• Oncology Practice
• Management of Resources and Quality within Healthcare
• Practice Education and Mentorship+

• Practice Education and Mentorship+

  + Satisfactory completion of the Practice Education and Mentorship module confers eligibility for accreditation under the College of Radiographers Practice Educators Accreditation Scheme (PEAS).

  Read more about the module.

   

You will have the opportunity to study a foreign language, free of charge, during your time at the University as part of the Kingston Language Scheme. Options currently include: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.