Diagnostic Radiography BSc (Hons)

Course Content

You’ll typically spend 37.5 hours a week on the course when on clinical placement (including study time) and approximately 20 hours when in academic study. You’ll be expected to complete assignments/ projects and some practical work in your own time and prepare for clinical assessments. Practical work is extremely important and experiments using equipment and phantoms (dummies and test tools) are a major feature. In the university you’ll have the opportunity to use simulation software, immersive virtual reality equipment as well as using the universities own digital x-ray suite which will help you gain the practical skills that will underpin your clinical placements.

Assessment includes written assignments, poster presentations, practical experiments, clinical assessments, oral presentations, problem-based learning and a research project.

The taught elements of this course are only delivered at Bangor University’s Wrexham campus next to Wrexham Maelor Hospital. Placements for Radiographers take place both within the BCUHB area in north Wales and in surrounding NHS trusts.

Facilities

• Digital x-ray suite allows for a range of clinical skills to be taught to students in a simulated environment that helps to prepare you for clinical placements.
• Access to desktop simulation for projection radiography, CT, and radiographic physics which you’ll be able to access both on campus and via remote access to University computers.
• Immersive virtual reality equipment – Bangor is the 1st University in the country to have this software available to students which will enable you to safely examine virtual patients.
• Portable set.