Radiography (Diagnostic Imaging) with Foundation Year

Keele University

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

Studying radiography will give you the skills, resilience, and healthcare knowledge to use cutting-edge medical technology to capture diagnostic images. You will develop your clinical abilities for an exciting career in a dynamic healthcare environment providing outstanding patient centred care.

- 3rd in the UK for Radiography (Times Good University Guide, 2024)- Accredited by the Society of Radiographers- Approved by the Health and Care Professions Council- Eligible students can apply for the NHS grant Medical imaging is used as a major diagnostic tool in the clinical setting including trauma, neurology, oncology, health screening and cardiac events. You will develop clinical experience and technical knowledge by using all modes of medical imaging to take accurate images. Imaging includes ionising radiation-based imaging such as computerised tomography (CT), mammography and nuclear medicine (NM), and non-ionising radiation-based imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and ultrasound (US).You will study all aspects of radiographic science, anatomy, physiology and pathology and professional patient care both in theory and in practice. You will also learn about the factors that can affect diagnostic images and acquire the skills you need to clinically evaluate the resultant radiographic images. As you progress through your studies you will deepen your knowledge and expertise by looking at more complex imaging methods so that by year three of the programme you will be proficient in all graduate attributes required for registration as a Radiographer by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university. We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level. Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.