BSC (HONOURS) Diagnostic Radiography at Sheffield Hallam University

• Gain the knowledge and skills you need to image the musculoskeletal and soft tissue systems of the body.
• Enter the profession ready to use and contribute to research and evidence.
• Study a course accredited by the Society and College of Radiographers (ScoR) and the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Diagnostic radiographers use the latest imaging technologies and techniques to produce images of the body to diagnose diseases. On this course, you’ll work and collaborate with a range of healthcare professionals, and gain the skills and registration you need to enter this rewarding area of healthcare. When you graduate, you’ll be eligible to register as a diagnostic radiographer with the HCPC.

Applied learning

Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.

You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. 

The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• diagnostic radiography

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

•  NHS trusts and private hospitals across the country and abroad