Module manager: Helen Harcus
Email: h.harcus@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Standard entry criteria and 240 level 1 and 2 credits for BSc(Hons) Diagnostic Radiography programme
Merging of ARCS3202 International work based learning into this module
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module is an optional clinical practice module where students are able to focus their own clinical practice area. The student will undertake a 2 week clinical placement in their chosen field and complete an essay in the form of a critical evaluation. They will complete 2 formative clinical assessment forms appropriate to their focused clinical area, in order to demonstrate practical skills achieved in the area. The student needs to identify that the focus offers new and different learning opportunities to those not encountered elsewhere in the programme such as in areas outside of imaging, different clinical environments, international placements or more specialist areas of practice. Negotiating learning contracts set out achievable aims and are student-led under the guidance of the module manager as part of the programme team. Students are able to look at any healthcare aspect for this module and it is not limited to imaging areas. The student needs to identify that the focus offers new and different learning opportunities to those not encountered elsewhere in the programme such as in areas outside of imaging, different clinical environments, international placements or more specialist areas of practice.
The student led optional module gives the student the opportunity to focus their clinical practice on a specific area of diagnostic imaging or healthcare. The student will undertake a 2 week clinical placement in their chosen area.
The student will negotiate the placement area themselves and will be required to undertake 2 clinical assessment forms appropriate to their focused clinical area to demonstrate clinical skills learnt through the placement (though these are evidence of completion of the placement only and not competency-based/directly related to HCPC standards of proficiency).
The student will learn to develop their imaging skills in focused areas of practice.
The module will allow the 2 week placement to be located anywhere in the UK or through linked international placement sites.
Negotiated learning contracts will set out student led achievable aims.
At the end of this module the student should be able to:
1. Be able to negotiate and manage a self-led placement in an area of their choice
2. Detail practices and procedures within the chosen area
3. Undertake a critical evaluation of the chosen area
4. Understand and appreciate a holistic view of other healthcare services either in the UK or internationally
- A specialist healthcare practice relevant to focused area
- Interpersonal and team working skills in practice;
- Management of self, immediate specialist clinical environment and colleagues;
- Holistic views of healthcare practices both in the UK or abroad
- Application of appropriate patient management and health and safety
- Evaluation of services, outcomes and patient pathways, in line with local initiatives
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Placement | 2 | 37.5 | 75 |
| Lecture | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 20 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 80 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
Individual tutorials to aid placement negotiation and formulating the individual essay title are provided..
Draft submission of the essay prior to final submission. 20% can be submitted for feedback in line with University feedback policies.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Essay or dissertation - 2000 words | 100 |
| Coursework | 2 x clinical assessment forms - Pass/fail | 0 |
| Coursework | Draft essay | 0 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Two clinical assessment forms to be completed upon the placement to demonstrate learning on the placement. These need to be completed as evidence of the placement but are not competency-based or related to directly meeting HCPC standard of proficiency as per the professional practice modules. There is no compensation between elements, both the clinical assessments and essay must be passed.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 26/03/2025
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