About Diagnostic Radiography in Canterbury Christ Church University

Diagnostic radiographers play a crucial role in healthcare by providing a high quality imaging service to diagnose injury or disease. You will gain the knowledge and skills you need to work in hospitals and clinics, in research, or in education.

We aim to ensure you become a safe, competent, confident and autonomous practitioner, with a particular emphasis on developing your skills in patient care, image interpretation and preliminary clinical evaluation. An integral part of the course is the development of sound skills in evidence-based practice and research that encourage and enable you to evaluate and improve professional practice for the benefit of service users.

You will explore areas including:

• human anatomy, pathology and physiology
• radiographic science and radiation protection
• radiographic practice and image interpretation
• patient care
• evidence-based practice.

Why Diagnostic Radiography?

Our course prepares you to work within radiology departments in NHS hospitals or in private hospitals and clinics, and provides you with a wider background to support you in your future career direction. Our staff draw upon their wealth of academic and professional expertise and knowledge to support our goal of helping all students to achieve their full academic potential.

Canterbury Christ Church is renowned for expertise in advanced areas of diagnostic radiography; clinical reporting and ultrasound imaging. Effective health and social care services depend on the professional knowledge and expert skill of their practitioners. Radiographers providing this care require the highest level of professional knowledge, competence and mature confidence in their expertise.

The role of a diagnostic radiographer involves interacting with patients and making them feel relaxed and at ease while conducting technical clinical examination procedures. Radiography departments within hospitals normally provide a wide range of different imaging investigations e.g. ultrasound, computed and digital X-­ray examinations, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.

We are proud to have taught students who have awards including the national ‘Society of Radiographers ‘Student of the year award’ and the ‘Work the World’ award for elective placements abroad in developing countries.

An integral part of the diagnostic radiography course is the development of sound skills in evidence based practice and research that encourage and enable practitioners to evaluate and improve professional practice throughout their career. These skills will equip you to go on to undertake a higher taught or research degree at Canterbury Christ Church or elsewhere.

Who is this course for?

This course is suitable if you would like to gain a very sound understanding of Diagnostic Radiography and become eligible to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a diagnostic radiographer who is able to work in a range of different settings.

What will i study?

Our course is designed to reflect the rapidly evolving dimensions of the health and social care sector and the needs of the individual, as well as being rich in diagnostic radiography content. The course is based on the many years' experience and expertise that Canterbury Christ Church has in collaborative teaching and learning.

Our aim is to give you the opportunity to embrace and capture interprofessional placement experiences and the use of interprofessional interactions through simulation activities which will support learning, teaching and assessment.

You will gain clinical and academic knowledge through this integrated programme delivered within the University’s dedicated clinical Simulation Suite, which include our X-ray suite, operating theatre and wards. You will also gain clinical and academic knowledge in clinical radiology departments in Kent and East Sussex. Clinical education and clinical practice are pivotal to the course, and approximately 50% of learning occurs within the clinical setting.

The course is approved by the statutory regulatory body, the Health and Care Professions Council. This allows students to be eligible to apply for registration upon successful completion of the course. The course is also accredited by the College of Radiographers

Academic qualification equivalents:

• Successful completion of standard 12 th with 60% average and one further year of study

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS         :        6.0, with no less than 6.0 in Writing and no less than 5.5 in Reading, Speaking and Listening.
• TOEFL        :       Total minimum score of 80, with at least 19 in reading, writing and listening.
• PTE            :        overall score of 50 and no PTE communicative skills score below 42

Canterbury Christ Church University Highlights

Canterbury Christ Church University Tuition fee

Canterbury Christ Church University Living Cost

• The weekly living cost for an international student staying at a residential hall/flat/homestay is 384.50 NZD, 305.75 NZD, and 360 NZD, respectively.
• Application deadline for accommodation: December 1 (February intake); May 1 (June intake).