Training, development and registration (clinical or medical technology)
Your training depends on the level at which you're entering this area of healthcare science.
The education and training you take, will depend on the level at which you are entering.
- To enter through the NHS Practitioner Training Programme (PTP) you’ll take a full-time (usually 3-year) accredited integrated BSc degree in healthcare science (medical physics or clinical engineering) at university. At least 50 weeks of workplace-based training in the NHS is included in these programmes. For the most up to date list of accredited BSc healthcare science degrees, please use our course finder. Applications for full-time courses are made through UCAS.
- as a graduate entering the NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) you’ll be employed in a fixed-term, salaried training post in a post in clinical engineering (in rehabilitation engineering, clinical measurement and development, or medical device risk management and governance) or medical physics (in radiotherapy physics, radiation safety physics, imaging (ionising radiation) or imaging (non-ionising radiation). You will study towards a Master's degree in clinical science.
Programmes are often supported by the development of workplace-based assessment tools, assessment of equivalent learning and the development of academic careers.