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2026/27 entry
Tooting campus

Key information

This MSc provides the opportunity and support for Mammographers to develop into the role of Consultant Mammographers and Advanced Practitioners. Standalone modules are also available for Breast Clinicians and Specialist Breast Care Nurses to continue developing their clinical skills.

Start date

September 2026

Institution

City St George's, University of London

Course code

N/A

Location

Tooting campus

  • Flexibility

    Books

    Flexible structure and delivery allows you to tailor your studies to your professional requirements.

  • NHS Workforce

    People

    Developed in conjunction with our links to the healthcare sector and with significant reflection of the requirements of the NHS Breast Screening Programme and symptomatic breast care services.

  • Accreditation

    Quality

    This course is accredited by the College of Radiographers.

Advanced Breast Practice MSc/PGCert Course overview

Benefits of this course

The contemporary and evidence-based nature of the course structure reflects current workforce development needs and training requirements within Mammography and Advanced Breast Practice.

Take advantage of the expertise and training resources available through our teaching partners at the Jarvis Breast Screening Centre in Guildford (InHealth). This partnership allows us to offer students access to the excellent joint teaching, support and clinical facilities across both institutions.

This course combines the necessary clinical and academic skills required to support your development and help you build the knowledge and competencies required to not only succeed on the programme but also continue your development in the future.

The skills you will gain will support your ongoing clinical development and will provide excellent grounding for your future and current research interests, your clinical skills and for wider roles in the profession, inclusive of practice education and mentorship.

Awards

You can select to apply for one of the available exit points for this course.

  • Master of Science (MSc)

  • Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert)

Who is this course for?

Mammographers who wish to develop into the role of Consultant Mammographers and Advanced Practitioners.

Breast Clinicians and Specialist Breast Care Nurses also benefit from standalone modules enabling them to develop their clinical skills further.

Accreditation

College of Radiographers.

Structure

Awards

You can select to apply for one of the two available exit points for this course.

Master of Science (MSc)

Duration:

  • Part-time: 3 years,

Total credits: 180

Modules:

Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert)

Duration:

  • Part-time: 1 year,

Total credits: 60

Modules:

The MSc comprises 180 credits and can be studied over three years as a part time student, full time study is not available.

Core modules are supported by a menu of optional modules, enabling the tailoring of your programme to your bespoke professional and clinical skills requirements. You will undertake a research project linked to the theme of your degree and be supported with a preparatory research methods module.

As well as full programmes of study, we offer the opportunity to undertake individual 30 credit modules to suit your continuing professional development and advanced practice.

Watch the Advanced Breast Practice MSc webinar from our virtual postgraduate event.

Core modules

  • Research and evidence based practice in healthcare (30 credits)

    The module fosters an understanding of the research process, hone skills of critical appraisal and develop research skills as applied to both quantitative and qualitative research. Starting with the scientific process and hypothesis formulation and ending with the production of a research protocol; along the way reviewing the literature, selecting an appropriate research method, sampling, data collection analysis and presentation and ethical issues are covered.

  • Dissertation (60 credits)

    The completion of this component takes the postgraduate diploma to a Masters degree. This module builds upon the principles outlined and knowledge acquired during the Research and Evidence Based Practice in Healthcare module. This module provides you with the experience of utilising all principles of research design. Following submission and approval of a dissertation proposal you are provided with a project supervisor to facilitate support for both the project and dissemination material. You are then to undertake an independent piece of research study into a topic relevant to your field.

Optional modules

  • Advanced principles and practice breast interventional techniques (30 credits)

    This module is designed to provide the foundation for understanding and relating all of the key processes involved in breast diagnosis. It includes 6 months of learning in a professional environment within healthcare. This develops and extends your clinical expertise necessary to contribute to the multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of breast disease.

  • Clinical breast examination and client communication (30 credits)

    This module is designed to provide the foundation for understanding and relating all of the key processes involved in breast diagnosis. It includes 6 months of learning in a professional environment within healthcare. This develops and extends the participants’ clinical expertise necessary to contribute to the multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of breast disease.

  • Interpretation and reporting in mammography (30 credits)

    Designed for health care professionals, such as breast clinicians or Radiographers who wish to perform as advanced practitioners, this module provides the understanding of all key processes involved in ‘reading’ breast images, including 9 months of learning in a professional environment within healthcare. It is related to the image interpretation of screening mammograms, detecting and identifying and abnormalities, classifying those possible abnormalities, and the making a decision on the likely probabilities whether to recall the woman for further clinical assessment.

  • Ultrasound of the breast (30 credits)

    This module is designed to provide the understanding and knowledge involved in breast diagnosis. This is followed by 6 months of learning in a professional environment within healthcare. This module is designed to provide the academic and clinical components to enable you to fulfil your role in reviewing current application and uses of ultrasound to detect and evaluate breast abnormalities and then to interpret and report on findings.

  • Practice education and mentorship (30 credits)

    Completion of this module confers eligibility for accreditation under the College of Radiographers Practice Educators Accreditation Scheme (PEAS). This module is for practitioners who educate and mentor learners within the clinical setting. The module focuses on developing appropriate knowledge and skills in order to effectively facilitate the development of others. Throughout the module students draw upon their clinical experiences and relate these to the theoretical frameworks.

Teaching and assessment

This course is delivered by City St George’s, University of London section of Diagnostic Radiography in collaboration with the Jarvis Breast Screening Centre (InHealth), Guildford.

This means you benefit from the experience and facilities of multiple complementary institutions.

City St Georges combines teaching and research excellence in areas directly applicable to healthcare sciences and has a long established reputation for high-quality, vocationally relevant education.

The combination of academics and expert practitioners gives this programme a uniquely dynamic environment in which to further your studies and your career. We also have strong links with the NHS, education and other healthcare providers and services.

Assessment methods

A wide range of supportive assessment methods are utilised to help you demonstrate your newly developed knowledge and skills.

For those undertaking the MSc, assessments are designed to help you with preparation for your dissertation, supporting your skills in critiquing published work, experimental design, data collection and analysis.

All advanced practice and PgCert modules are assessed through a combination of written assignments, procedure logbooks and clinical examinations.

Fees and funding

Fees for academic year 2026/27

Master of Science (MSc)

Part-time per year

Home/UK: £6,260

Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert)

Part-time (full course fees)

Home/UK: £4,190

Applicants holding a Tier 2 visa, and with evidencable appropriate access to practice with patients of the NHS Breast Screening Programme, will be eligible for ‘Home’ fees (above) despite being assessed as an Overseas student for visa purposes.

Standalone module (30 credits)

Home/UK: £2,050

Funding your study

The course may be self-funded, employer funded (by invoice) or through part-employer/part-student funding. You may be eligible for:

20% off your study

We are offering a Graduate Loyalty Discount of 20% on tuition fees to all our alumni when applying to any of our degree courses.

To be eligible for the discount you must have successfully completed an undergraduate or postgraduate degree at legacy City, University of London or legacy St George's, University of London, as well as being self-funded.

To apply you will need to be accepted onto your intended course of study and to meet all the normal academic admissions criteria for the relevant course at City St George's, University of London.

Please note that MBBS 4 & 5 students are not entitled to alumni discount.

Career

Our MSc and individual breast screening modules will support a wider variety of professional development requirements, from those wishing to undertake single advanced practice modules (Mammographers, Breast Clinicians, Specialist Nurses) to Mammographers training for Consultant roles.

How to apply

Entry requirements

UK

To be considered for this course, you will need to:

  • meet the entry criteria
  • write a personal statement
  • provide two suitable references.

You should have or be expected to achieve, a relevant healthcare qualification at, or above, an undergraduate honours degree level (Level 6).

Applicants also need:

  • to be registered with the UK Health and Care Professions Council or relevant healthcare registrant body. Confirmed via HCPC registration uploaded onto application
  • To have employment-based access to appropriate patient groups (details as follows) To be confirmed via personal statement or reference:
    • Clinical Breast Examination and Client Communication: access to both screening and symptomatic patients (assessment requires a logbook of 50 selected cases to include both patient groups and a range of pathologies)
    • Ultrasound of the Breast: access to both screening and symptomatic patients (assessment requires a logbook of 50 selected cases to include both patient groups and a range of pathologies)
    • Image Interpretation: assessment requires evidence of reading 2500 mammograms under supervision with a range of pathologies, access to this quantity and range of mammograms is required.
    • Interventional Techniques: assessment requires evidence of 50 selected cases to include a variety of abnormalities, access to interventional procedures is required.

The University is unable to offer clinical placements for the MSc Advanced Breast Practice course or its stand alone modules, appropriate clinical access must be confirmed by the applicant prior to commencing study.

Please note this programme is currently only available to Home students, or international students who meet the entry requirements, including employment within the UK.

Please note this programme is currently only available to Home students, or international students who meet the entry requirements, including employment within the UK.

International qualifications

We also accept qualifications from other countries for postgraduate study.

English language requirements

If your first language is not English you must demonstrate you meet our English Language requirements.

Most common test requirements:

  • IELTS Academic: 7.0 overall with 7.0 in Writing and 6.5 in all other components
  • TOEFL (iBT) and (iBT Paper): 93 overall with 27 in Writing, 20 in Listening and Speaking, and 19 in Reading.

Full details can be found on our City St George's entry requirements page.

This is a Group 1 course.

Application process

Before beginning your application please check the entry criteria of the course you wish to study to ensure you meet the required standards.

Applications must be submitted through our online application system, which you can access below.

  1. Once you've created an account, you will then be able to complete the application form and upload any relevant documents. You can save a partly completed form and return to it later. Please make sure you complete all sections. Please make sure that the information you provide is accurate, including the options you select in menus.
  2. You will be asked to outline your reasons for applying for the course in a brief personal statement on the application form.
  3. You will also need to provide two satisfactory references. One of these should be a recent academic reference and the other should be either a second academic reference or a professional/employer reference. For those unable to provide an academic referee a second professional/employer reference will be permitted.
  4. Add pgadmissions@sgul.ac.uk to your address book to ensure you do not miss any important emails from us.
  5. When you have checked that your application is complete and accurate, click ‘submit’.

You can track your application through your online account.

Guidance for completing your references

When completing your application, you will be asked to provide contact details of two referees. Please ensure these details are accurate. As soon as you have submitted your application, your referees will be contacted by the university asking them to upload a reference to your online application.

One must be a recent professional/employer reference. The other should be either an academic reference or a second professional/employer reference. They should cover your suitability for the course and your academic ability.

Your referees should know you well enough, in an official capacity, to write about you and your suitability for higher education. We do not accept references from family, friends, partners, ex-partners or yourself.

We will send reminder emails to your referees but it is your responsibility to ensure that contact details are correct and referees are available to submit a reference. References should be uploaded within two weeks of making your application.

Applying for a module

Postgraduate Mammography modules:

Applications for all modules close one month before the start date.

Please state clearly in your personal statement which module you wish to do.

Current students: Students currently studying a mammography standalone module at St George's should contact postgraduateradiography@sgul.ac.uk to enquire into studying further modules. Please do not use the above links.

September 2026 entry

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