Overview
Advance your career and enhance your expertise with our MSc in Clinical Reporting, a flexible and specialised postgraduate qualification for registered radiography practitioners. This course equips you with advanced skills in image interpretation, enabling you to specialise in musculoskeletal, adult chest, and abdomen projectional radiography, as well as selected MRI examinations.
As the first validated course of its kind, this MSc has earned commendations from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education and is delivered by an expert academic team, including internationally recognised researchers. Designed to meet current and future healthcare demands, the course offers pathway-specific modules alongside bespoke study options, allowing you to tailor your learning to your career goals.
With a curriculum that reflects evolving service requirements, you will develop expertise in radiology reporting, Artificial Intelligence in medical imaging, and education in allied healthcare. Upon completion, you will be eligible to apply for advanced practitioner accreditation in Clinical Reporting, opening doors to career progression in NHS trusts, private healthcare, and specialist imaging centres.
This programme is designed with flexibility in mind, enabling you to balance study with professional commitments. You will be supported by leading academics and clinical specialists throughout your journey, ensuring you gain both the technical proficiency and professional confidence needed for advanced clinical practice.
Join an innovative MSc programme that empowers you to specialise and lead in radiology.
Structure of the course
There are three Postgraduate Certificate awards that you can achieve depending on your area of reporting speciality. Each PgCert consists of two 30 credit modules which must be completed. You will usually take one year to complete each PgCert. The PgCert awards are:
- PgCert Adult Chest Clinical Reporting
- PgCert Musculoskeletal Clinical Reporting
- PgCert MRI Clinical Reporting.
You can also further study for a Postgraduate Diploma by completing 2 PgCerts or one PgCert and 60 credits of additional modules.
On completion of the Postgraduate Diploma, you may want to continue to an MSc award. This can be achieved by also completing the Leadership in Allied Health, Developing Allied Health Research and the Allied Health Dissertation modules.
The MSc incorporates the NHS England four pillars of advanced clinical practice, namely: specialist practice, leadership, education, and research.
I have honestly enjoyed my time studying at Canterbury. It's been really well organised, the feedback and support has been spot on without being overwhelming. I've advised my colleagues to consider Canterbury for their ongoing postgraduate learning for this reason!Mehjabin, Clinical Reporting alumni
Entry requirements
Degree at 2.2 or above or Professional Diploma in Radiography or its equivalent in a relevant discipline. You should have at least one year of professional registration to practice in radiography or a related discipline.
You will be working in a relevant field of radiographic practice and will have sufficient access to the relevant range of clinical practice to support your studies.
You must be supported by your employer and two referees, one of whom is a consultant radiologist or experienced reporting radiographer prepared to act as a liaison mentor.
If English is not your first language you require an IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no element below 5.5 for most standard undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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Module information
Please note that the list of optional modules and their availability may be subject to change. We continually review and where appropriate, revise the range of modules on offer to reflect changes in the subject and ensure the best student experience. Modules will vary when studied in combination with another subject.
Below shows the modules which make up a PgCert in your chosen pathway. If you wish to continue your studies to gain a PgDip you may continue by completing a further pathway in clinical reporting or by completion of a range of 20 or 40 credit modules. Further details are available on request. Once you've completed the PgDip you can achieve the MSc Clinical Reporting by completing two further modules.
You can apply for stand alone open modules here.
Core/optional modules
*Modules subject to approval
How you’ll learn
The Clinical Reporting postgraduate certificate comprises of part-time workplace-based courses, structured as coherent pathways of study each consisting of two 30-credit modules. You will join regular briefing sessions throughout the course to undertake direct learning activities, and receive tutorial support. These briefing sessions will be a combination of face-to-face and online delivery.
For each 30-credit module you undertake, there will be 66 hours of contact time with the University. This contact time will include lectures, image-based workshops, seminar presentations and group discussions. Formative test banks will be regularly undertaken to facilitate discussion on reporting styles, highlight common perceptual and cognitive reporting errors and emphasise the role of the reporting radiographer within the holistic care of the patient. Real-world cases are a central part of the course. These cases are designed to challenge you to apply theoretical knowledge in practical, clinical scenarios.
Learning activities will include lectures, seminars and practical image viewing sessions utilising the university’s PACS solution.
You will be taught by a range of experienced staff and visiting lecturers, including reporting radiographers and radiologists.
In keeping with the University’s Learning and Teaching strategy, the course is learner centred and is orientated significantly towards workplace partnerships; using work-based materials and the normal work environment as a source and site of learning. A reporting mentor and department clinical colleagues will provide additional learning opportunities.
Independent study should be split between workplace based clinical reporting with mentor discussion and self directed learning. Self-directed learning will include independent directed study (critical reading); clinical meetings (REALM and MDT); shadowing activities; reporting sessions and assessment preparation.
You should expect to commit around ten hours per week between independent study and workplace reporting.
You should expect to receive 66 hours of contact time with subject specialists.
You will be expected to undertake 234 hours of independent/guided study. This equates to approximately 10 hours per week. It is expected that you will receive a minimum of seven hours per week active reporting time facilitated by your clinical department with an additional 3 hours independent study.
You are expected to spend approximately 75 hours preparing and writing assessment submissions for each 30 credit module. This is included in your independent/guided study hours.
You will be taught by members of the clinical reporting academic team who have a range of qualifications (PhD, MSc) as well as teaching input from reporting radiographers and radiologists as guest lecturers.
All academic staff are HCPC registered practitioners of clinical reporting in their specialist areas. The academic team have additional qualifications in teaching in higher education (PGCert) and are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
You will be taught by a range of experienced staff and visiting lecturers, including reporting radiographers and radiologists. The modules will be delivered using a variety of approaches including lectures, group discussion and image viewing sessions using our specialist PACS monitors on campus. The image viewing sessions will provide you with direct feedback on your learning in your chosen reporting field and is recognised by current students as a vital aspect of their development.Martin MitchellCourse Director
How you’ll be assessed
You will be assessed by a range of methods to facilitate your learning and prepare you for the requirements of future practice. You will have opportunities for formative feedback prior to final submission of your work.
Assessment methods may include written examinations, course work essays, reflective accounts, a portfolio of cases, simulated practice examinations and oral presentations.
For MSc students, you will have the option of producing an essay dissertation or a draft article for publication based on your own research activity.
Your future career
Successful completion of this course provides you with the skills and knowledge to enter or continue your career as an advanced practitioner or consultant within the radiography profession. By undertaking pathways in our clinical reporting course, you will be equipping yourself for roles at enhanced level practice, and with further modules at advanced level practice. By ensuring that you continue to develop and apply skills encompassing the four pillars of advanced practice you could subsequently build upon this towards a role as a consultant practitioner.
I'd just like to say a massive thank you for all your help and support during the course. The course has a fantastic reputation, genuinely feel that the work yourself, Lisa, Nick and Adrian have put in has given us the best start into the next chapter of our careers.DavidClinical Reporting student
Fees
Tuition fees for this course:
| UK | Overseas | |
| Part-time | £1,070 per 20 credit module | £1,070 per 20 credit module |
20% Alumni Discount
We offer alumni discounts on CCCU Postgraduate Taught, PGCE Primary and Secondary, and Masters by Research courses for eligible students.
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Important Information on Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year. For further information read the 2023/24 Tuition fee statements and continuing fee information.
Industry links
The Society & College of Radiographers (SCoR) recognises the considerable workforce challenges faced by the diagnostic pathway in the NHS. They acknowledge that radiographer reporting makes a significant contribution to meeting the increasing service demands and supports rapid access to diagnostics.
Increasing the number of radiographers undertaking postgraduate Clinical Reporting courses can help to address the workforce needs to achieve the early diagnosis aims of the NHS Long Term Plan making this programme key for future workforce delivery. The complementary expertise of clinical radiologists and reporting radiographers can be used to continue to enhance imaging services.
As a student on this course you can be part of this transformation of imaging services whilst developing your career.
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