Course summary

The University of Leeds’ Diagnostic Radiography course gives you everything you need to practice in one of modern medicine’s most exciting fields. Combining science, technology and patient care, this course prepares you for a career at the forefront of emerging technology for diagnosis and treatment. We’ll teach you how to use a variety of techniques to produce high quality images, which medical professionals use for patient diagnosis and treatment. You’ll be working with ever-evolving technology like digital imaging, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and even artificial intelligence. Moreover, since radiographers work in diverse teams, you can take your career in many different directions – from ultrasound and image reporting to teaching and management. With 95% of graduates going into work and/or further study (Discover Uni, 2019), many in the same place they trained, your employment prospects are excellent when you take this course. Why choose Leeds?

• Ranked as the top University in the UK for medical technology in universities offering diagnostic radiography in the Complete University Guide 2023.

• You will be introduced to clinical environments from the first semester of your course.

• The clinical/academic ratio is approximately a 50:50 split, giving you considerable time on clinical placement.

• Clinical placements are undertaken predominantly within departments across the Yorkshire and Humber region and North of England, and in both small and large NHS hospitals and private providers

• You will also undertake optional modules to explore areas of personal interest, giving you the opportunity to graduate with additional skills.

• Short international placements are potentially available as part of a 3rd year optional module; currently we have links in Sweden, Denmark, and Malta. Some of our students also take elective placements abroad.

• You will undertake a research project in your final year to develop your evaluation skills and your ability to add to evidence-based practice.

• You will complete a clinical portfolio each year to help develop your reflective writing skills and prepare you for continuing professional development (CPD) when you’re a fully qualified radiographer.

• Many of our students have presented their research at conferences or have published in professional journals and are supported in doing so by the teaching team.

• The core Radiography teaching team of HCPC registered Diagnostic Radiographers with decades of combined experience and expertise across a range of specialties and many of whom are Leeds graduates.

• Our clinical skills suite: this state-of-the-art digital X-ray room, based at a local Leeds hospital, allows a unique combination of both simulation and imaging of patients in small groups.

• The Sectra table: a large immersive and interactive touch screen device which can be used for small group teaching and study particularly of anatomy, imaging science, and image interpretation.

• A virtual reality cardiac imaging and intervention platform which can be used to simulate complex imaging and procedures on the heart.