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PgD - Medical Imaging (Ultrasound)

If you are a health care professional or vascular scientist wanting to enhance your professional career, then our course - accredited by the Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE) - will enable you to pursue a career in ultrasound.

Our course will build on your experience in radiography, nursing, midwifery or other related professions or clinical specialisms and teach you the academic knowledge and safe clinical practice to meet national standards to work as a sonographer.

Your learning will be enhanced with plenty of work-based practical learning in our skills lab, which is equipped with the latest imaging workstations and houses one of the largest MedaPhor ultrasound simulation labs in the world. Discover our skills hub in the video below.



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Course Overview

Our expert staff will help you develop into an autonomous practitioner, who is able to undertake advanced ultrasound practice safely, by ensuring clinical competencies achieved meet national standards. We provide a range of modules which will enable you to explore the underpinning knowledge of safe, effective and evidence-based ultrasound practice, in order to help you develop clinical skills in your own department.

Your learning will be enhanced with plenty of work-based practical learning in our skills lab, which is equipped with the latest imaging workstations and houses one of the largest MedaPhor ultrasound simulation labs in the world. Discover our skills hub in the video below.



On this course you will...

  • Have the opportunity for inter-professional learning during the academic blocks (which are shared with our full-time ultrasound students) and during clinical placement.
  • Develop critical, analytical and evaluative skills and incorporate these into the clinical environment, encouraging evidence based practice will be a fundamental part of the course.
  • Have access to our skills lab, equipped with the latest imaging workstations.

Course Structure

What you will learn

We provide a range of modules which will enable you to explore the underpinning knowledge of safe, effective and evidence-based ultrasound practice, in order to help you develop clinical skills in your own department.

Modules

Compulsory modules

  • Physical Principles & Technology in Ultrasound
  • Professional, Legal & Ethical Issues in Ultrasound

 

Optional modules (subject to availability and demand)

  • General Medical Ultrasound (Theory)
  • General Medical Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Obstetric Ultrasound (Theory)
  • Obstetric Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Gynaecological Ultrasound (Theory)
  • Gynaecological Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Breast Ultrasound (Theory)
  • Breast Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Vascular Ultrasound (Theory)
  • Vascular Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (Theory)
  • Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (Clinical Practice)
  • Negotiated Ultrasound Practice (Theory)
  • Negotiated Ultrasound Practice (Clinical Practice)
  • Research methods
  • Independent Study in Ultrasound (non-clinical) 

Attend an Open Day at Cumbria

An Open Day is your opportunity to explore one of 5 campuses, meet your lecturers, and find out how the University of Cumbria could become your new home.

Take the next step towards achieving your dreams.
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