This module is to enable Practitioners to become competent in performing image guided breast interventional procedures within a breast clinic, relevant to their work-place needs and individual scope of practice.

Aims

• Enable Practitioners to perform interventional procedures according to local and national guidelines.
• Provides Practitioners with the knowledge and skills to perform breast interventional procedures safely and accurately.
  
  

Available as a standalone module: Yes

Attendance (Please note, this is subject to change for future intakes)

Dates: For attendance information, please see the top of this page. Please note, if the module is full or closed for the intake(s) this academic year, dates may not appear. 

Venue: National Breast Screening Training Centre, King’s College NHS Foundation Trust, London.

Typical intake(s): Semester 1

Career Benefits

Upon successful completion of this module, the student will be able to competently perform image guided breast interventional procedures according to their work-place needs and individual scope of practice.

Assessment

• CW1: Option 1 - poster presentation or Option 2 - case study
• CW2: portfolio
  

Assessment/submission date: TBC 

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:     

• Apply the knowledge and understanding underpinning the practice of image guided interventional breast examinations.

Intellectual skills:

• Reflect critically and correlate biopsy findings with clinical assessment outcomes and other processes of the triple assessment of breast clinic patients.

Practical Skills:

• Competently perform interventional procedures whilst producing an accurate record of the examination and outcome.
• Competently gain the patient’s consent and develop the communication skills to support the patient’s psychological requirements.
• Administration of local anaesthesia.

Transferable skills:

• Engage confidently in academic and professional communication with others and engage in reflective practice.