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This four-year Master of Radiography: Diagnostic (MDRad) integrated master’s course will give you the theoretical understanding and practical skills you will need to build a rewarding career as a diagnostic radiographer. Practice placements are an integrated part of the course and allow students to put their theoretical knowledge into practice.

Year One: Anatomy and Physiology; Becoming and Allied Health Professional; Developing Resilience of Self and Others; Introduction to Diagnostic Practice, Diagnostic Practice 1; Finding your Academic Voice.

Year Two: Health Coaching Conversations; Developing a Spirit of Inquiry; Cross Sectional Imaging Science; Diagnostic Practice 2; Diagnostic Imaging Placement A.

Year Three: Active Citizenship Health; Literacy; Specialist Imaging and Advancing Diagnostic Practice; Theoretical and Clinical Approaches to Multidisciplinary Team Working; Understanding and Appraising the Evidence for Practice; Diagnostic Imaging Placement B.

Year Four: Applying Skills of Critical Enquiry; Evidence Informed Practice; Leadership and Enterprise in Healthcare; Preliminary Clinical Evaluation; Diagnostic Imaging Placement C.

Entry Requirements

2024 entry requirements:
4 Highers at BBBC (standard entry) or BCCC (widening access entry) including a science subject plus English and 2 science subjects at National 5.

You may be requested to be immunised against Hepatitis B

You would require a satisfactory PVG (Protecting Vulnerable Groups) check to show you are suitable for this type of course. Contact Disclosure Scotland for details.