MSc in Healthcare Technologies
Course content for 2009 entry
Modules are drawn from a number of MSc courses. To help plan a possible timetable for 2008 entry, select the modules you're interested in, and then check out the timetables of the courses MSc Health Informatics, MSc Information Systems and Technology, MSc Information Systems, MSc Health and Pharmaceutical Information, MSc Information Science.
Note that certain criteria apply when choosing radiography-related modules and that the module list may be subject to change.
Note that the modules Physics and instrumentation of MMR and Clinical applications of computed tomography will first be offered for September 2008 entry
1 core module(s): choose 8 elective module(s) from the following list:- advanced databases
- basic physics and equipment for ultrasound
- bioinformatics
- clinical applications of computed tomography
- clinical records
- data analysis with healthcare applications
- data mining
- databases
- developments in ultrasound practice
- digital information technologies and architectures
- evidence based practice management in radiography
- further technologies in nuclear medicine
- health management
- health policy and information management
- human-computer interaction design
- information and knowledge management
- information domains
- information for decisions in healthcare
- information management and policy
- information retrieval
- information science foundation
- knowledge management in healthcare
- medical ethics in healthcare
- multimedia
- neural and evolutionary computing
- open source systems
- physics and instrumentation of medical magnetic resonance comparative imaging
- radiation science and instrumentation for nuclear medicine
- radionuclide imaging practice 1
- radionuclide imaging practice 2
- requirements engineering
- signals and information
- systems specification
- telemedicine
- web applications development
- wireless communication systems
Criteria for choosing Radiography modules
All students who wish to take the following Radiography postgraduate modules must be working in a Diagnostic Imaging Department, Radiotherapy Department, Computed Tomography Department or Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, and will be required to complete form Clinical Experience Form 1 (CE1) to confirm that they have secured a clinical placement.
In addition, students will be required to complete a reflective portfolio of clinical experience or a record of clinical experience which forms part of the assessment process. Note: it is the student's responsibility to arrange a clinical placement.
Basic physics and equipment for ultrasoundNote: the following Radiography modules do not require students to be undertaking a clinical placement: