University Diploma - Radiography Assistant Practitioner Bridging Course
This is a short course designed to provide experienced Assistant Practitioners with the additional academic knowledge, skills, and clinical experience to step on to year three of the BSc Radiography Programme. This course will focus on the detailed key underpinning knowledge related to radiographic science and anatomy which is required for transition into the final year of a radiography degree.
Course subject to validation
Health and Care Professions Council, and approved by the College of Radiographers
Course Overview
This programme will provide an additional entry stream into the radiography profession. It will offer significant benefits by widening access to a large group of individuals who are not able to study radiography under the existing arrangements. In addition, it will allow employers to ‘grow their own’ workforce by progressing and upskilling Assistant Practitioners through a flexible educational system to progress to radiography level and meet the needs of current imaging departments. As a student progressing through the system you are more likely to stay and work with the employers who have invested in their education on completion of your studies. Upon successful completion of the programme, you will have gained credits and practical experience to APEL onto Year Three of any Diagnostic Radiography programme. This in turn would allow you to be eligible to apply for registration with the HCPC as a diagnostic radiographer upon completion.
On this course you will...
- Develop your education to achieve full practitioner status.
- Refresh and develop academic skills through continual support to a point where you are capable of undertaking Level 6 study.
- Achieve a comparable level of educational and clinical attainment to that of a radiography student at the end of their second year.
- Provide an enhanced level of patient centred care in a developing profession.
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