Schedule of Campus-Based Radiography Tutorials

All tutorials within the Department follow the general guidelines for tutorials. Tutorials for radiography students are held on a fortnightly basis. There is a separate schedule of placement tutorials. The schedule of topics discussed on campus is as follows:

Stage 1, Weeks T1:01-10

1. Induction [1/2]
   • General induction, introduction to tutor and other tutees
   • Handbook induction (including support services, sources of advice, contact information, submission of work, etc.)
   • Aim of tutorials, tutorial ground rules, etc.
2. Induction [2/2]
   • Time management
   • MyExeter, the University Portal Service
   • ELE, the Exeter Learning Environment
   • DRC, the Disablity Resource Centre
   • Independent study and supplementary reading
   • Effective Studying
3. Study Skills
   • Importance and contribution of non-assessed work
   • Academic good practice as a means of avoiding academic misconduct, plagiarism, etc.
   • Academic good practice: Harvard referencing and the role of peer review
4. Assessment and Feedback
   • Assessments as a learning tool
   • School Assessment and Feedback Strategies
   • Marking Criteria, Assessment of Essays and Reports (Medical Imaging)
   • Importance of current references
   • Types of feedback
   • Using feedback to enhance learning
5. Introduction to critical self-appraisal and CPD
   • Critical self appraisal and reflective practice
   • Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
   • CPD and the radiographer
   • Developing CPD skills throughout this programme
   • Beginning a CPD portfolio
   • Critical self-appraisal and Personal Development Planning (PDP)
   • Aims and value of the PDP process

Stage 1, Weeks T2:01-08

6. Personal Development Planning (week T2:01)
   • PDP
7. Preparation for Clinical Placement [1/2]
   • Professional roles
   • Review of professionalism
   • Code of Practice for Clinical Placements
8. Preparation for Clinical Practice [2/2]
   • Departmental structure
   • Points of contact / communication channels
     • Link Radiographer
     • Clinical Tutor
     • Clinical Assessor
9. Aims and objectives for clinical placement
   • Being a facilitator of one's own learning
   • Managing the transition from 'student at university' to 'student within a working clinical environment'

Stage 2, Weeks T1:01-11

1. Clinical Placement Experiences and Review of Feedback and Academic Good Practice
   • Clinical placement experiences
   • Interprofessional working and impact on patient care
   • Review of engaging with feedback to enhance learning
   • Review of academic good practice (academic misconduct, plagiarism, etc.)
2. Facial Bones (and Skull) Radiography [1/2]
   • Revision of facial bone (and skull) anatomy
   • Terminology
   • Projections and Technique
   • Common clinical indications
   • NICE guidelines
3. Facial Bones (and Skull) Radiography [2/2] (Practical: X-ray room)
   • Facial bone radiography
   • Other projections (including skull radiography)
4. Preparation for Clinical Practice
   • Expectations for second placement
   • Adapting to different departments / practices
   • Review of critical self-appraisal (reflective practice)
5. Personal Development Planning (week T1:10)
   • PDP

Stage 2, Weeks T2:01-05

6. Clinical Placement Experience
   • Identification of strengths and areas for further improvements
   • Examples / discussion of how transition from stage 1 to stage 2 placement site was managed
   • Examples of interprofesional team-working and impact on patient care
7. Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
   • Critical self-appraisal (reflective practice)
   • Evidence-based practice
   • Maintaining a CPD portfolio

Stage 2, Weeks T3:06-07

8. Preparation for Clinical Practice
   • Expectations for third placement
   • Building on previous experiences - positively anticipating change
   • Electives

Stage 3, Weeks T2:01-10

1. Preparing for Practice [1/4], Review of Feedback and Academic Good Practice
   • Finding vacancies
   • Personal statements
   • The CPD portfolio
   • Review of engaging with feedback to enhance learning
   • Review of academic good practice (academic misconduct, plagiarism, etc.)
2. Preparing for Practice [2/4]
   • The first post, preceptorship, accountability
   • Working with students as a newly qualified radiographer
   • SCoR and HPC guidelines relating to CPD
3. Personal Development Planning (week T2:01)
   • PDP
   • Career aspirations (including general career opportunities)
   • Introduction to Training and web-based resources for Employability Skills provided by The Careers and Employment Service
4. Preparing for Practice [3/4]
   • Transition from student to practitioner
   • Identifying strengths and areas for further improvement
5. Preparing for Practice [4/4]
   • Radiography Career Pathways (clinical, management The NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, research, education)
   • Other career options