Program Overview

MSc/PgD Professional Practice: Advanced Radiography Practice (Progression Route)

Overview

This course will encourage you to critically reflect and review your personal and professional development in order to underpin your clinical performance and expertise. You will be provided with learning opportunities which will allow you to explore complex and current challenges, critique evidence-based practice, evaluate and enhance service delivery. In undertaking this course, you will gain the contemporary knowledge, academic preparedness and skills for an advanced professional practice role.

This course is suitable for all diagnostic radiographers wishing to progress onto advanced professional practice roles.

Course Structure

This course is designed as a progression route for radiographers holding a post graduate certificate (PgC) in a specialist area of practice who wish to progress to completing a masters degree.

Course Modules

• Research Methods: This module will enhance students’ overall understanding and application of research methodologies and methods that are used to investigate the behavioural, social and biomedical sciences relevant to health, social care and education. Students will develop their theoretical, methodological and research skills to enhance their ability to conduct rigorous research and reach sound analytical conclusions which will form the basis for the development of effective service delivery in health and social care organisations.
• Leading Integrated Service Innovation: Students will be encouraged to undertake a service evaluation, potentially to identify and explore current challenges. As a result of their evaluation, they will be encouraged to make some recommendation for change to future practice. It is expected that this will be a bespoke piece of work, undertaken in their own field of practice.
• Dissertation: The dissertation will allow students to demonstrate a critical and constructive awareness of their professional practice from the wider philosophical, theoretical and social contexts within which health and social care operate. Students will identify a problem or opportunity in practice and choose an appropriate methodology to facilitate the exploration of the problem. This can include primary research, service evaluation, clinical audit or a systematic literature review.

Entry Requirements

• UK Academic Requirements: Holder of a PgC in a specialist area of Diagnostic Radiography.
• Non-academic Requirements: Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Currently working in the field of diagnostic radiography for a minimum of one year.
• Transferring Credit: If you have previously studied at higher education level before you may be able to transfer credits to a related course at the University of Suffolk and reduce the period of study time necessary to achieve your degree.

Career Opportunities

All students will already hold posts across the healthcare sector, nonetheless completion of this programme will enable students to progress into advanced practitioner/lead roles within radiography. Students completing the programme will be encouraged to apply for Advanced Practitioner Accreditation with the Society and College of Radiographers and health Education England.

Fees and Funding

• Postgraduate Diploma:
  • UK Full-time Tuition Fee: £9,150 per year
  • UK Part-time Tuition Fee: £1,017* per 20 credit module
  • International Full-time Tuition Fee: £15,210 per year
  • *Please contact the Student Centre for further details about part-time tuition fees

Your Course Team

• Professor Ruth Strudwick: Ruth is Head of Allied Health Professions and Associate Professor in Diagnostic Radiography.
• Dr Hollie Hadwen: Hollie is Course Leader for BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography and the PgC in Advanced Practice and Reporting in Computed Tomography Colonography.
• Deana Hazeldene: Deana is Course Leader for MSc Diagnostic Radiography and co-ordinates radiography student clinical experience as Practice Placement Lead.

Facilities and Resources

We have a hospital standard X-ray imaging suite in the state-of-the-art Health and Wellbeing Building.

Related Courses

• MSc Diagnostic Radiography: This accelerated two-year, full time master’s degree programme is aimed at current graduates and designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills and practical experience to provide safe, high-quality care to patients requiring imaging.
• PgC in Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Postgraduate Certificate in Computed Tomography
• BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography: Diagnostic radiographers produce high quality images to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of injury, illness and disease. They employ a range of equipment across a variety of healthcare settings.
• BSc (Hons) Radiotherapy and Oncology: Radiotherapy is the use of X-rays and other ionising radiations to treat patients who have been diagnosed with cancer.