Masters in Radiopharmaceutics & PET Radiochemistry The Radiopharmaceutics course, will equip you with the skills to work as a radiopharmaceutical scientist in a PET radiochemistry centre (cyclotron unit) or in the field of conventional radiopharmacy, providing diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals to nuclear medicine centres and specialised commercial centres Structure Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits. Aims The primary aim of this course is to develop students' critical skills within the local and global healthcare technology environment. The course will develop students’ transferable skills for critical discussion, written review, presentation skills and creative and reflective communication. Learning Outcomes Students should be able to demonstrate: • Ability to critically appraise published literature on healthcare technology and related findings • Ability to appraise the latest advances in scientific scholarship and the needs of the community in the area of healthcare technology • Ability to present the above appraisals effectively, in the form of oral presentations, critical discussion and written review • Ability to review published work on imaging research and present findings in written report and oral presentation to multiple audiences • An awareness of the global and local healthcare environment. Course Description This course will provide translational and transferable skills by way of core lecture material and an extensive series of guest-led assessed journal club sessions. The core lecture material will comprise broad information on key concepts in healthcare technology including: • Research Design • Creative media • Scientific Publishing and Peer Review • Scientific Funding • Healthcare Economics • Healthcare Challenges • Research Ethics • Sustainability, equality and diversity The assessed critical paper review will comprise multiple sessions designed to encourage student participation in discussion and raise awareness of key literature in the healthcare technology domain. • Presentation Skills: Each student will present three times during the rotation, once as lead presented and once each presenting the contributions and limitations of a paper. • Class Contribution: Students will be expected to contribute to the class throughout the year by raising questions, contributing to the discussion and voicing opinions. Attendance will form a component of class contribution. Individual Written Contribution: Students will be asked to submit several written pieces of work including: written reviews of one of the papers discussed from the first and second half of the paper rotation. Expert summaries of lecture material, creative writing outputs making use of interview, graphical and other electronic formats.