Musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging
For accreditation information about our musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging courses please see the course pages listed below.
Part of this pathway will include a mentorship with a clinical supervisor.
Aims
This pathway supports clinicians from a range of professional backgrounds to access musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.
Students engage with the technical considerations that underpin this imaging modality prior to musculoskeletal scanning protocols. This face to face teaching occurs at weekends at the Colchester campus. Students need a mentor to complete the clinical learning components of this pathway.
The pathway includes optional modules covering ultrasound guided injections or service evaluation.
Learning objectives
- To provide students with critical understanding of the key concepts underlying musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.
- To facilitate students’ acquisition of practical musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging skills.
- To ensure students acquire a range of transferable employment related skills.
- To enable students to evaluate and respond to professional considerations related to musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.
- To provide students with skills to access and critically appraise research findings to develop their own evidence-based practice.
- To enhance students understanding of the essential principles of research design and to conduct an extensive piece of independent research including: planning, formulating, designing, choosing research methods, collecting data, analysing, interpreting and writing-up.
Outcomes
We offer three qualifications in this pathway, depending on the total number of "credits" you undertake: