B.Sc Radiography & Imaging Technology
Undergraduate (B.Sc) programme · 3 years + 1 year internship · Department of Radiography & Imaging Technology
Overview
About the programme
This is an undergraduate specialised course in allied health science: a three-year full-time course with one year of compulsory rotatory internship.
It is concerned with:
- procedures for diagnosis and treatment using imaging technology (X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, MRI scan) - a profession that requires good technological expertise,
- radiographers' work in departments dealing with accident and emergency cases, intensive care units and operation theatres, and
- imaging used in the treatment of cancer patients.
Curriculum
What you will study
First year
- Human anatomy, physiology and pathology relevant to radiology
- General physics, radiation physics and physics of diagnostic radiology
- Radiography equipment, maintenance and quality control related to X-ray
Second year
- Clinical radiography
- X-ray film / image processing techniques including dark-room techniques
- Contrast and special radiography procedures
Third year
- Equipment of advanced imaging modalities
- Modern imaging techniques and recent trends in imaging
- Quality control, radiobiology and radiation safety in radiodiagnosis / imaging other than X-ray
Non-examination subjects (all years)
- English
- Computer
Clinical internship
One year of compulsory rotatory internship after the three academic years.
Career opportunities
- Radiographer / imaging technologist
- CT and MRI technologist
- Hospital radiology departments
- Diagnostic imaging centres
Higher studies
- M.Sc in medical imaging technology / allied subjects
- Research
