Radiography: Oncology Practice PgCert/PgDip/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 exemption from modules according to professional and academic qualifications. You can take individual modules as 'free standing' as part of your continuing professional development (CPD). Independent study modules enable modules to be based around your individual CPD and workplace needs.

What will you study?

You will study modules relating to clinical roles, management, 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.

Some of the modules are developed in partnership with the Jarvis Breast Screening Centre; the Royal Marsden NHS Trust; and the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Bristol.

The postgraduate admissions administrator will help you choose the most suitable combination of modules depending on your needs. You will study modules relating to clinical roles, management, 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. Some of the modules are developed in partnership with a range of healthcare providers.

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

* double module

Please note: UK students can study any of the modules below. However if you are an international student, you can only choose modules marked with the † symbol. These can be studied on our international pathway.

Choose from the following

• Assessing and Supervising in the Workplace†
• Breast Cancer Treatment, Management and Care †
• Cancer Management†
• Computed Tomography I: Principles†
• Dissertation (equivalent to four modules)†
• Foundation to Image Interpretation†
• Managing Continual Professional Development†
• Management of People in the Workplace †
• Quality and Professional Issues in Health Care†
• Radiotherapy Practice †
• Research Methods†
• Self-Managed Learning in the Workplace†
• Digital Imaging in Healthcare

In partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

• External Beam Radiotherapy Planning*
• Image-Guided Radiotherapy Verification †

In partnership with the Jarvis National Breast Screening Training Centre

• Management of People in the Workplace

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There are postgraduate radiography pathways for international radiographers (or equivalent) in the fields of medical imaging and oncology practice.

Download the information leaflet (PDF) for more information.

The Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences teaches this course.

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