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Keele University: Medical Imaging

Institution Keele University View institution profile
Department School of Allied Health and Pharmacy
Web www.keele.ac.uk
Email enquiries@keele.ac.uk
Study type Taught

Summary

Advance your radiography career with Keele’s MSc Medical Imaging, a cutting-edge programme designed to keep your expertise current and prepare you for the future. Offering pathways in General Medical Imaging and specialist ultrasound routes in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, and Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma, (FAST) this flexible programmes supports your progression toward enhanced, advanced, and consultant-level roles. You’ll gain the specialist knowledge, critical insight, and practical skills needed to excel in the dynamic field of medical imaging.

Why choose this course?

  • Two distinct pathways in General Medical Imaging and specialist ultrasound

  • Programme fits within the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) Education and Career Framework document

  • Develop your expertise academically, professionally, and personally while expanding your scope in medical imaging

  • Gain versatile, career-focused skills to improve clinical services

  • Radiography at Keele is a partner in the University Hospital North Midlands Imaging Training Academy (MITA), a national initiative focusing on upskilling the imaging workforce

Are you a radiographer, radiologist, healthcare professional, or professional affiliated to medical imaging, e.g. physiotherapist, emergency physician or advanced clinical practitioner looking to enhance your expertise? Our MSc Medical Imaging will equip you with knowledge of advanced imaging techniques, research methods, and evidence-based clinical practice to support your progress toward consultant practitioner roles. We offer two different routes - General Medical Imaging and specialist ultrasound pathways in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma. All routes follow the same overarching structure. The ultrasound pathways additionally provide CASE-accredited training in practical sonography, while the general pathway offers a broader focus on medical imaging theory, practice, and service development.

Aligned with the Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR) education and career framework, our curriculum’s core modules focus on transitioning into advanced practice, developing your clinical and development portfolio, and enhancing your research skills. The programme covers anatomy, pathology, physiology, and the physical principles of medical imaging, enabling you to adapt to a wide range of imaging procedures.

You will deepen your understanding of the key scientific principles and concepts that underpin specific areas of medical imaging, advance your imaging procedures and techniques, and apply these within a clinical setting. In addition, you will enhance your ability to critically appraise research evidence, improve patient care and service delivery, and contribute to the development of service improvements.

A range of optional modules cover a range of related themes to broaden your knowledge, including digital technologies and innovation within public health, leading and complexity, how policy is shaped within healthcare practice, children and medicine, and clinical effectiveness.

About Keele Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Master of Science - MSc (PG)

Keele University

Key facts

  • Our world-class teaching and research facilities support students as they expand their knowledge and develop future-proof career skills.
  • With over 15,000 students from all over the world, our global community is welcoming and supportive, with plenty of opportunities to have a thriving social life at university.
  • With over 120 nationalities studying with us, international students are welcomed to our global community here at Keele.

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