Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Canterbury Christ Church University was the first institution to validate a postgraduate reporting programme for radiographers. Since 1994, the Allied Health Department has validated, and continues to offer, postgraduate pathways in clinical reporting of the following areas (all programmes are conjointly validated with the College of Radiographers - UK):

Plain film:
- Appendicular and axial skeleton;
- Adult chest.

MRI / CT
- MRI – General investigations (Knee, lumbo-sacral/thoracic spine and IAM)
- MRI – Head and cervical spine
- CT Head

Initial image interpretation is also a central theme of the pre-registration BSc Diagnostic Radiography programme.

The MSc Clinical Reporting Programme Director, Keith Piper, states:

"We find iQ-VIEW very flexible and useful for all our reporting and image interpretation modules and programmes. To study this area effectively, it is important that students interact with a platform that incorporates display and manipulation functions that replicate clinical practice. It is also vital that teaching staff can easily anonymise, categorise and annotate images prior to student use. iQ-VIEW allows us to achieve these aims with relative ease. The iQ-LITE function enables us to construct teaching and assessment banks which can be viewed by students in the classroom setting and also remotely via the University’s web-based Virtual Learning Environment."

19 December 2008