Patient Centred Care Application in Medical Imaging

This course enables you to study the principles of patient-centred care and discuss the applications in the context of Radiography. It will offer you some background knowledge on key issues in patient-centred care and how these can be applied in radiography through optimised imaging technique, customised communication skills and appropriate use of specialised equipment.

This course is tailored to address examples of the needs of different patient populations within radiography, and examines the applications of patient-centred care, offering some theoretical background.

Who is it for?

For recent radiography graduates, clinical practitioners, radiology managers, radiography researchers and educators who wish to advance their understanding of the basic principles of patient-centred care in Radiography and Medical imaging.

Timetable

Term 3

Monday 23, Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 June 2025

Benefits

This is one of the first courses of its kind in the UK specifically for Radiographers and adjusted to Medical imaging practice and communication. Its key takeaway is an enhanced understanding of the basic principles of patient-centred care in Radiography and Medical imaging.

This short course module is designed to be flexible in allowing you to study and reach your goals at your own pace. Our health CPD courses are credit-bearing modules that contribute to a University degree or award.

Transfer course credits towards postgraduate taught degree

As a health care professional, once you've completed this course you could offset 15 credits as part of a postgraduate programme, continuing your study with further modules to make up a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) 60 credits, Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) 120 credits or Master of Science (MSc) 180 credits qualification (all credits must be awarded within five years of study commencing).

This course will discuss and define patient-centred healthcare. It will also offer detailed examples, presented by charities and patients, of how a certain condition can impact patient experience in the hospital, in general and in the Radiology department in particular.

It will further introduce key concepts and terminologies of patient-centred care. Different charities will present different conditions (cancer, dementia, autism, pregnancy, older age, bariatric patients) and these have implications for a patient’s quality of life and how this is translated in their journey as patients through Radiology – which will be explored.

Cultural sensitivity implications for Radiography practice relating to different religions will be discussed as well as optimal communication and care for patients within the LGBTQ community.

Knowledge and understanding

• Examine contemporary guidelines in patient-centred care practice and consider how inclusive these are in relation to different patient conditions.
• Explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of patient-centred care provision for patients, staff, the profession and the NHS.
• Develop knowledge on how to expertly identify within current relevant literature a relevant clinical question to investigate, focusing on impact of patient-centred care on clinical practice, workflows and patient pathway.

Skills

• Justify the importance and relevance of patient-centred care for all patients in radiology departments.
• Critically evaluate literature and other research work related to this topic.
• Develop the ability to recognise a patient with a hidden disability.
• Practise communication techniques to help the patients state their needs to healthcare professionals.

Values and attitudes

• Demonstrate respect for the intellectual work of others in the field by accurate referencing of published work.
• Respect privacy and confidentiality.
• Respect the opinions of others and behave with integrity.
• Consider the ethical and practical implications of the lack of clear patient-centred care guidelines in your practice.

Teaching

You’ll be taught through lectures and online discussions, supplemented by self-directed study using relevant scientific and grey literature.

Your lectures will be taught on campus, in person, alongside other postgraduate Radiography students. For the online discussions you will have the chance to learn from charity officers’ sharing of best practice and patients’ genuine experiences and ask them questions about the impact of their condition in their everyday life, their patient identity with this condition and how their experience could be improved within the scope of medical imaging practice. You will also be encouraged to use class discussions in the online forum to interact with your colleagues and understand the diversity of opinions on this contemporary topic.

Assessment

Formative feedback: you will receive formative feedback verbally on your suggestions for patient-centred care techniques, using specific case studies in the classroom online discussion.

You’ll be assessed by a written essay on a case study of your choice as well as an online discussion and engagement with the group on key topics of patient-centred care equivalent to a minimum of five online forum posts.

Learning Routes

This module has two routes namely, "CPD for attendance only" and "CPD for credits":

1. CPD “for attendance only” route: for students that wish to take this module as attendance only, this will grant you access to all lectures and online learning materials on Moodle. However, this route does not include the assessments, therefore you will not achieve any academic credits upon completion. A 25% discount is applied to the module fee. You will also receive a certificate of attendance at the end of the academic term.

2. CPD “for credits” route (Attendance & Assessment): for students that wish to take this module with assessments, this route will grant you access to all the lectures and online learning materials on Moodle. Upon successful completion of the assessment, you will have achieved the respective academic credits, as per individual module (there will range from 15 to 30 credits). No discount is applied to the module and the full fee will need to be paid.

For attendance only: 25% discount applied to the full fee (Please note: fees for overseas students will be a different rate, as per original fees on website)

For credit: (Attendance & Assessment): Full fees apply, as per individual module.

This course is provided by the School of Health & Psychological Sciences.

Credits

This course is worth 15 credits toward eligible programmes.

This course is open as CPD to everyone in the UK , Europe and beyond or as part of our Master’s programme, with certain entry conditions, as you can find below and on the website.

• Applicants will normally hold a BSc (Hons) degree (2:2 or above) in Radiography or an equivalent discipline from a UK institution
• Appropriate professional qualifications e.g. Diploma of the College of Radiographers
• International qualifications in Radiography will have to be reviewed by our international team - they may only be acceptable if equivalent to a level 6 UK degree (BSc degree). Both originals and certified translations will have to be submitted to our programme team, before your application can be considered
• A clinical placement for an average of three days per week in a clinical MRI/CT department is required. Applicants should have a minimum of one year of clinical experience in the clinical speciality in which they wish to study before starting the course and should continue in clinical practice while on the programme. A clinical experience (CE1) form will need to be emailed to our programme team, completed and signed by the department manager, before your application can be considered
• Non-standard entrants will be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to availability of places on the programme (early application is recommended). Interviews might be arranged for these candidates, if the programme team feels necessary.

English requirements

If your first language is not English, one of the following is required:

• A first degree from a UK university
• A first degree from an overseas institution recognised by City, University of London as providing adequate evidence of proficiency in the English language, for example, from institutions from Australia, Canada or the United States of America.
• International English Language Test Service (IELTS) a score of 7.0 is required with no subtest below 7.0
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) score 72 required
• TOEFL 100 overall with 24 in Writing, 20 in Listening, 19 Reading and 20 Speaking
• Other evidence of proficiency in the English language, which satisfies the board of studies concerned, including registration with your professional regulator.

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2. NICE Guidelines: Patient-Centred Approach in Medical Imaging https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?/
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