Diagnostic Radiography

If English is not your first language and you are not a national of a country deemed by either the UK Home Office or St George’s, University of London to be ‘majority English speaking’ listed here, you will be required to meet the English Language requirements outlined below. Tests are valid for a period of two years.

Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, peer-assisted learning, case-based learning, simulated practical experience and work experience in a practice placement setting. Our facilities include a state-of-the-art digital imaging suite, which supports learning and development of radiography practice skills.

Our teaching draws on the wealth of experience of our placement collaborators and alumni who present masterclasses and workshops that enrich your learning. They also inform the curriculum to keep it up to date.

Clinical placements provide an opportunity to put theory into practice and consolidate your learning. Diagnostic radiographers work predominantly in hospital diagnostic imaging departments, but also in operating theatres and accident and emergency departments.

Practice placement locations include:

• Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust, Chertsey, Surrey

• Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London

• Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust, Carshalton, Surrey

• Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Camberley, Surrey (Frimley Park Site)

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children NHS Foundation Trust, London

• Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London

• Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston, Surrey

• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London

• Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, Surrey

• St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London

• The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London

• Croydon University Hospital, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, Surrey

• West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, London

• Barts Health NHS Trust, London.

Your progress will be assessed using a combination of academic coursework (including essays, reports and presentations), written and practical examinations, practice placement assessments and a research dissertation.

Because we want you to reach your full potential, we build in opportunities for formative assessments and provide feedback on assessment tasks, so you know what you need to do to optimise your performance.

Find out how this course is structured and assessed on the DiscoverUni website

You must provide the following.

• Full details of your Level 2 (GCSE or equivalent) qualifications with grades.

• Full details of your Level 3 (A Level or equivalent) qualifications with achieved/predicted grades.

• A personal statement (more information about this document is available on the UCAS website). We recommend that you include in your statement a recognition that studying a BSc in Diagnostic Radiography will include practice and study in a number of settings.

• An academic reference from your current or most recent institutions with predicted grades.

After submitting your application to UCAS:

• log in to UCAS Track and make sure all your academic details have been included

• if any subjects or predicted results are missing, email the Admissions Officer with your UCAS number and missing subjects and grades.

We will consider applications from applicants who wish to defer entry by a year, provided you plan to use the time constructively. If you are offered a place on the course and subsequently decide to defer, you must inform us by 1 June of the year of application.

We will send you an acknowledgement email and letter when we receive your application. Please make sure your email account is able to accept communications from St George’s as we will mainly communicate with you via email. Selected applicants will be invited to attend interview. Decisions from St George’s will be entered onto UCAS Track and direct applicants will be contacted via email.

The existing learning outcomes for our modules and courses will remain in place. From September to December 2020 all students will primarily access their learning, including learning materials, via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas. Hands-on practical teaching and learning activities will be delivered on campus with appropriate social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE) measures put in place, and with controls on the number of people in each location. 

The online components of the course will be designed to balance interactive real-time sessions with lecturers and other students, with self-paced independent study. Students will have clear learning pathways through the activities they are expected to engage with, and there will be opportunities to check learning and progress.  

Simulation facilities will be used to supplement clinical education when appropriate. However, we anticipate all clinical modules will continue as planned.  

We intend to run our usual simulation sessions in the Radiography Simulation Suite to help prepare you for your placement. These will be in smaller groups due to social distancing restrictions, and PPE will be provided for students and facilitators. Using PPE will help to prepare you for the ‘new normal’ of the clinical environment. The sessions will be condensed into one day. Being part of a smaller student group will enable you to gain greater interactive experience.

Personal tutor support and all other student support, such as the Academic Success Centre, will also be online for this period, using a range of methods for staying in touch, such as telephone, email and the University’s web conferencing systems BigBlueButton and MSTeams. Real time interaction with students remains essential to foster and maintain a sense of belonging and to check learning and progress.

Pending Health Education England (HEE) approval, placements are currently expected to resume from September 2020 with minimum changes to planned delivery or timings. All students on placement will be expected to undertake a risk assessment and adhere to local Trust working patterns and guidance. Students will not normally be placed in ‘Covid-hot’ areas, and those who identify themselves as vulnerable or share a home with a vulnerable person will have a risk assessment. The team will liaise with each student on an individual basis.

To get the most from online study, hardware requirements have been established and communicated to all existing students and offer holders. Students will need their own personal computer or laptop and an internet connection in their place of accommodation. This needs to be in place at the start of the course. Once enrolled, students will have the ability to use Office 365 as part of our institutional licence, and access software required for their modules/courses via AppsAnywhere. In addition, we offer Office for Mac via Ofice365, but only the following applications are available for Mac: Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote. Web-based Office applications are available on Mac. Full details are available here. There is a provision for students who may struggle to meet the hardware requirements to contact our IT Hardship team.

The existing learning outcomes for our modules and courses will remain in place. From September to December 2020 all students will primarily access their learning, including learning materials, via the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas. Hands-on practical teaching and learning activities will be delivered on campus with appropriate social distancing and personal protective equipment (PPE) measures put in place, and with controls on the number of people in each location. 

The online components of the course will be designed to balance interactive real-time sessions with lecturers and other students, with self-paced independent study. Students will have clear learning pathways through the activities they are expected to engage with, and there will be opportunities to check learning and progress.

Simulation facilities will be used to supplement clinical education when appropriate. However, we anticipate all clinical modules will continue as planned.  

We intend to run our usual simulation sessions in the Radiography Simulation Suite to help prepare you for your placement. These will be in smaller groups due to social distancing restrictions, and PPE will be provided for students and facilitators. Using PPE will help to prepare you for the ‘new normal’ of the clinical environment. The sessions will be condensed into one day. Being part of a smaller student group will enable you to gain greater interactive experience. 

Personal tutor support and all other student support, such as the Academic Success Centre, will also be online for this period, using a range of methods for staying in touch, such as telephone, email and the University’s web conferencing systems BigBlueButton and MSTeams. Real time interaction with students remains essential to foster and maintain a sense of belonging and to check learning and progress.

Pending Health Education England (HEE) approval, placements are currently expected to resume from September 2020 with minimum changes to planned delivery or timings. All students on placement will be expected to undertake a risk assessment and adhere to local Trust working patterns and guidance.

Students will not normally be placed in ‘Covid-hot’ areas, and those who identify themselves as vulnerable or share a home with a vulnerable person will have a risk assessment. The team will liaise with each student on an individual basis.

To get the most from online study, hardware requirements have been established and communicated to all existing students and offer holders. Students will need their own personal computer or laptop and an internet connection in their place of accommodation. This needs to be in place at the start of the course. Once enrolled, students will have the ability to use Office 365 as part of our institutional licence, and access software required for their modules/courses via AppsAnywhere. In addition, we offer Office for Mac via Ofice365, but only the following applications are available for Mac: Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote. Web-based Office applications are available on Mac. Full details are available here. There is a provision for students who may struggle to meet the hardware requirements to contact our IT Hardship team.

We are planning to deliver the course within the planned timescales, and for successful students graduate at the expected time.

Although some assessments are designed to be taken on-site, we have developed an alternative strategy allowing assessments to be completed remotely without coming on to campus. It is anticipated that this will only impact one of the year 1 assessments, planned for early December. From January 2021, if government advice permits, we intend to run all planned assessments in their original format. Some of these will still be online assessments, as the Programme Specification explains.

We are planning to deliver the course within the planned timescales, and for students to progress and graduate without delay. Although some assessments are designed to be taken on-site, we have developed an alternative strategy allowing assessments to be completed remotely without coming on to campus.

Clinical modules will be facilitated by placement partners from September 2020, if Health Education England and government guidance permits. The revised year plan will enable year 2 and year 3 students to complete all required modules.

If there is a further outbreak of Covid-19, delivering care to affected patients will be the overriding priority for our placement partners. If that happens, we will make changes to limit the impact on our students: we will rotate students through sites that are continuing to accept students and, where possible, we will use our simulation facilities to offer a comparable clinical experience.

For continuing students, it may be to delay placements to the next year of the course.

We do not expect students to incur any extra costs over and above those that we have advertised to students on the course page.

These can be used for online learning. However, it would be helpful for you to have a PC or laptop as you progress into year 2 and 3. If you need to, you can access the fund for support (email IThardship@sgul.ac.uk ). Students starting in September 2020 can also apply for the new NHSBSA Learning Fund bursary (£5000 plus extra funding for certain categories of student).
Our placement partners (Trusts) will provide PPE on-site.

We do not expect students to incur any extra costs over and above the normal level, as previously advertised on the course page.

Our placement partners (Trusts) will provide PPE on-site.

You will have online meetings with staff to keep you fully informed. Your Level 4 examinations will be in an online format in December. Your learning will be supported with online formative quizzes, mock tests and exams.

The methods and delivery of your assessment will be revisited as and when there are changes in national and institutional guidance. The delivery platform may change, but the established learning outcomes for the modules and the programme will be assessed.

Dates of assessments have been amended to facilitate the change in delivery. You will continue to have online meetings with staff to keep you fully informed – this has worked well since lockdown. Your learning will be supported with online formative quizzes and mock exams. The methods and delivery of your assessment will be revisited as and when there are changes in national and institutional guidance. The delivery platform may change, but all learning outcomes for the modules and the programme will be assessed.

If restrictions impact on placements again, the team will (if restrictions allow) take a pragmatic approach and, where possible, assess you in alternative formats. However, it is possible that graduation may be delayed for some final year students until they are able to complete all assessments and attendance requirements of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) – we have an obligation to our regulators to confirm that you have met the clinical and practical outcomes for the programme before you graduate.

The changes that we are making are the consequence of current public health advice, and our capacity to offer alternatives is limited by that advice. If you wish to avoid these changes by deferring your offer please contact admissions@sgul.ac.uk. 

The changes that we are making are the consequence of current public health advice, and our capacity to offer alternatives is limited by that advice. You will be required to consent to these changes as part of your re-enrolment. If you wish to avoid these changes (e.g. by taking a year out from your studies) please discuss this directly with your course team in the first instance. We remain, as always, focused on the best experience and outcomes for our students.