• The radiation therapist requires very specialist skills. The development of your clinical skills requires you to be interested in patient care. You will also need to have a keen interest in the field of science. Working as a radiation therapist will also require you to have good interpersonal and technical skills.
  • This four-year honours degree gives you a broad academic base on which to develop the clinical skills of radiation therapy. It qualifies you to analyse, evaluate and make clinical decisions and to initiate, participate in and encourage research in cancer and radiation therapy. There are both theoretical and clinical components to this degree, the emphasis being more on the theoretical component in the first two years and more on the clinical and research component in the last two years. The contact hours are high in this course and the subjects are taught through lectures, laboratory-based practical sessions, workshops, tutorials and clinical placement in the hospital setting.
  • Radiation Therapy is an innovative profession, with constant technological and patient care advancements. The four-year programme will provide you with the necessary academic and practical skills to work in this patient-centred healthcare environment. The programme is delivered by experienced and enthusiastic academic staff, whose focus is on providing you with a research-led, quality learning experience. As an undergraduate student, you will benefit from state of the art facilities including the largest academic radiation therapy localisation and planning laboratory in Europe and a virtual radiation therapy treatment unit. In addition to campus-based learning, you will gain extensive practice education through clinical placements in radiation therapy departments throughout Ireland.