Foundations and Practice of Musculo-skeletal Reporting

This module will encourage you to engage in active and informed participation in core image reporting of the musculoskeletal radiograph (excluding skull). The module will adopt a learner-centric approach and through your study and development, you will become champions in the specialism of musculoskeletal reporting. Your actions, as a musculoskeletal reporter, will have a direct consequence on the management of patient care and will help ensure imaging departments are able to produce timely imaging reports in line with IR(ME)R. The module will explore and contextualise the foundations of image reporting such as visual perception, satisfaction of search, medico-legal aspects of reporting, maintaining quality in report writing and conducting audit as well as the fundamental skill of interpreting the image. This module and assessment to mapped to the RCR and CoR 'Standards for the education and training of reporting practitioners in musculoskeletal plain radiographs.