Postgraduate Course: Imaging: Oncologic imaging (NEME11031)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Clinical Sciences |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This optional course will cover the diagnostic strategies and problems associated with cancers, including radiological screening methods, staging and follow-up examinations, and imaging the complications of cancers and their treatments. Multimodal approaches to liver, lung, colorectal, prostate, breast and brain cancers will be given an overview. |
| Course description |
Under development - will be listed explicitly on the Imaging MSc website at http://www.imagingmsc.ed.ac.uk
Proposed Modules will cover but not be limited to:
+ Diagnostic imaging for oncology
+ Staging and Follow-up
+ Complications of disease and treatment
+ Imaging for screening
+ Liver oncology - multimodal review
+ Lung oncology - multimodal review
+ Colorectal oncology - multimodal review
+ Prostate oncology - multimodal review
+ Breast oncology - multimodal review
+ Brain oncology - multimodal review
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
| Course Start Date |
17/01/2022 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Online Activities 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 20,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
36 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment will consist of continuous, in-course assessments and a final assessment. In-course assessment will be composed of a mixture of multiple choice-type questions, short essays, practical tasks, contributions to discussions and group learning activities - and will be delivered in time with individual modules making up the course. Final assessment will normally include a combination of multiple choice-type questions and short essays and it will take place at the end of the course period.
A number of bespoke technologies and the University's online assessment tool QuestionMark Perception will be used to deliver the more interactive and visually driven elements of assessment.
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| See course description
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Reading List
| Under development - will be listed for each module in the online environment with links directly to University library holdings. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
All courses to be delivered online by distance learning, using the institutional learning environment and other online tools (e.g. wiki, objective testing software), accessed by using the standard university EASE login. |
| Keywords | Imaging, Imaging sciences, Light microscopy, Preclinical imaging, Clinical imaging, Radiology, Oncol |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Andrew Farrall
Tel: (0131) 537 3910
Email: andrew.farrall@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Dr Charilaos Alexakis
Tel: 0131 537 3125
Email: C.Alexakis@ed.ac.uk |
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