Program Overview

If your career goal is to become a qualified diagnostic radiographer, but you’re also looking for a competitive edge, then this course will give you the skills, knowledge, and experience to confidently apply for employment both in Australia and overseas – six months ahead of other diagnostic radiographer courses.

This course offers an accelerated four-year degree which completes all training in only 3.5 years allowing you enter the job market earlier and giving UC graduates a definite competitive advantage when it comes to looking for future employment opportunities.

Packed with Work Integrated Learning (WIL) choices, this unique course can include an embedded honours program, allowing you to study the bachelor’s degree on its own for three and a half years, or undertake a research project in your third and fourth year to graduate with Honours.

Upon graduation, you’ll be eligible for registration from the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (MRPBA) to practice as a Diagnostic Radiographer and can explore career opportunities in general radiography, angiography, mammography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and medical ultrasound.

Study a Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging) at UC and you will:

• Gain a high level of ethical and interpersonal skills for interacting with patients from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Learn to effectively function as part of a healthcare team
• Acquire and apply clinical reasoning, treatment and evaluation skills to basic and life sciences
• Develop skills to undertake all routine diagnostic radiographic procedures
• Learn to operate diagnostic radiographic instrumentation to optimise image quality and minimise radiation dose or other potential patient hazards
• Develop skills in designing, implementation and management of quality assurance programs for medical imaging applications
• Acquire professional attitudes and attributes as a reflective practitioner.

Work Integrated Learning (WIL)
WIL is a key part of the Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging) program and has been created to give students valuable hands-on experience using a broad range of x-ray units within a simulated and controlled lab environment.

This approach builds confidence and has been created to ensure that all UC students are familiar and experience with real-world technology by the time they reach their first clinical placements.

Students will also participate in a variety of placements throughout the course including two five-week clinical placements during the second and third years of your studies and have the chance to take part in longer residences too.

Each placement can occur across several different local and/or national healthcare settings, including regional, rural, large teaching hospitals and private practice placements.