Radiographer Training

Diagnostic radiographers provide a service for most departments within the hospital including, accident and emergency, outpatients, operating theatres and wards. Close liaison and collaboration with a wide range of other health care professionals is therefore vital.

Radiotherapy radiographers deliver doses of X-rays and other ionising radiation to patients, most of whom are suffering from various forms of cancer. The aim of the treatment is to deliver an accurate dose of radiation to the tumour/cancer whilst minimising the dose received by the surrounding tissues. They establish where the area to be treated is located and work out the exact dosage required with doctors and medical physicists.

For more information on careers in radiography, please contact:

College of Radiographers
207 Providence Square
Mill Street
London
SE1 2EW

Tel:             020 7740 7200
Email:          info@sor.org 
Website:      www.sor.org

Sonographer Training

Ultrasound is used in various settings in the hospital, not just for babies but also abdominal scanning and breast ultrasound for example. Ultrasound imaging is the use of high frequency sound in excess of human hearing to produce images of structures of the human body that may be observed on a TV screen. These images may subsequently be transferred to photographic film or paper or onto video or CD forming part of the patients' record of their examination.

Currently there are no direct entry routes into ultrasound. Most sonographers train as a radiographer then undertake an approved post-registration course*. These courses are offered by higher education and as a minimum require one academic year that prepares them both clinically and academically for this specific area of practice. Normally a pre-requisite for acceptance on to these courses is access to a clinical department that is able to offer supervised practice for student sonographers  

* Courses are approved by the Consortium for the Accreditation of Sonographic Education (CASE), see www.sor.org for more information about course providers.

For further information on these careers and many more please look on the NHS Careers Website: www.nhscareers.nhs.uk

 

 

 

 

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