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
| Not being delivered |
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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