The BSc Honours in Diagnostic or Therapeutic Radiography was the first honours degree in Radiography to be offered in the United Kingdom. Graduates are eligible for state registration with the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and membership of the professional body. The degree course is based on study both at the University in Portsmouth and on a variety of clinical placements in hospitals in the South of England in places such as Bournemouth, Poole, Southampton, Salisbury, Bath and Portsmouth.
Students can expect to be meeting and dealing with patients from the beginning of the course.
Assessment of the students' clinical capabilities is carried out by appropriate staff during these clinical secondments and this forms part of the overall assessment pattern on which the honours degree is based. These clinical placements are vital to ensure that students who graduate from the University are of the highest clinical standard, have experienced a diversity of clinical practices and are able to obtain employment in any clinical department. British students resident in the UK are normally eligible for Department of Health bursaries and the Centre will apply on behalf of the student after they have been provisionally accepted on the course. These bursaries relate to parental income, but mature students are assessed on an individual basis. Included within the bursary are tuition and registration fees and an allowance for textbooks and travel.