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Overview
Key facts
- Regardless of your health profession you will be able to develop and enhance your practice as part of a multi-professional strategy and to utilise a systematic approach to reporting BMD and VFA results from DXA scans. You will work closely with a service-based mentor to report DXA scans consistently and independently and review the role of vertebral fracture assessment. You will also review both technical aspects of bone densitometry assessment and patient management in relation to national guidance. This course covers central DXA - it does not cover peripheral DXA or quantitative ultrasound (QUS).
- University of Derby 's DXA Reporting For Clinicians programme will teach you more about this topic.
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Courses include:
- Normal and osteoporotic appearances on DXA images, including an understanding of normal variants
- The clinical risk factors that affect BMD
- Artefacts and confounding factors, such as patient positioning
- The radiographic appearance of vertebral fracture on lateral DXA images
- Treatment thresholds for different patient groups
- Treatment protocols
- The significance of changes in DXA results with time and the implications for treatment
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Duration
- Full-time
- 9 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApplication deadline not specified.
Language
English
Credits
40 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Derby, United Kingdom
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
A first degree or equivalent providing you with the academic and/or clinical competencies to work at the appropriate academic level; plus:
- Professional body state registration
- Be working as a health care professional (radiographer, technologist, nurse or doctor in a bone densitometry service, with the support of the clinician with clinical responsibility of the service who will sign off the reflective portfolio)
- Have completed appropriate IRMER training
- Successful completion of the ROS (previously NOS) National Training Scheme for Bone Densitometry, or the Postgraduate Certificate in Osteoporosis and Falls Management or equivalent
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Additional Details
- If you are funding your own study, the module price will be confirmed shortly.
Living costs
Derby
United Kingdom
540 - 852 GBP / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
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