Clinical Photography (PG Cert)

• Gain a recognised professional qualification, or embark on postgraduate professional studies?
• Clinical Photography certificates are officially approved by both CAMIP and IMI.
• Perfect for existing or trainee medical illustrators

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The Medical Illustration Programme consists of a group of work-based, distance-learning awards in Clinical Photography and Graphic Design for Health Care, offered by the Faculty of Arts, Media and Design. The aim of this programme is to provide continuing professional development, including specialist knowledge and skills, for people who are already in work as medical illustrators.

This award is based on learning through work-based assignments, so it is really only suitable for those who are employed in a healthcare environment that gives them access to the clinical situations, specialist equipment and workplace supervisors necessary for the successful completion of those assignments.

You will study:

• the legal and ethical issues encountered in medical illustration

• anatomy and physiology

• computer skills for medical illustration
  

You will also carry out practical assignments in:

• healthcare location photography

• patient photography and lighting techniques

• ophthalmic photography

• dental photography

• surgical photography
  

For Clinical Photographers, it is our intention to seek the approval of the Health Professions Council for the Graduate and Postgraduate Certificate, so that achievement of this award will entitle you to be entered onto the HPC Register, which is soon to be opened. During the interim period to the opening of the HPC Register however, the achievement of either of these awards will allow you to register with The Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Illustration Practitioners (CAMIP), and to be accepted as a full member of the Institute of Medical Illustrators.

The Postgraduate Certificates will provide evidence that you have acquired all of the learning outcomes associated with the Graduate Certificate awards and that you have given additional attention to the more academic, theoretical issues in medical illustration, taking a more questioning, critical and analytical approach to theories, practice-based issues and case studies. This award could also qualify you to progress to a Postgraduate Diploma and, eventually, a Masters qualification if the demand justifies the development of these further awards by the university.

Qualification:	Postgraduate Certificate (PgC)
Faculty/School:	Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Location:	Stoke Campus

For more information about Clinical Photography (PG Cert) please contact:

Faculty of Arts, Media and Design Admissions
College Road
Stoke on Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 2XW
t: +44 (0)1782 294400
e: enquiries@staffs.ac.uk