Programme Description

The DMI syllabus consists of six semesters with 29 core subjects and 2 elective subjects, 31 subjects in total. Throughout the whole programmes students are to achieve a total of 105 credit points to graduate. DHS is awarded upon completing the three years programmes of the full time structured schedule.All areas provide a strong foundation for progression into research degrees and careers.
Programmes Duration
Semester 1 – 6 : 20 weeks each semester
The assesment ;
• Problem Based Learning (50%)
• Course work (50%)

SEMESTER STRUCTURE
Year 1 - Semester 1, Semester 2 & Semesters 3 (short semester)
Semester 1 (Core) Semester 1 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
GHC 4013 Anatomy & Physiology I 4
GHU 1013 English Language 3
GHU 4073 Introduction to Computing & Applications 3
RHC 1013 Patient Care 3
RHC 1023 Principles of Radiographic Science I 3

Semester 2 (Core) Semester 2 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
GHC 5013 Anatomy & Physiology II 4
RHC 2013 Principles of Radiographic Science II 3
RHC 2023 Radiation Biology & Protection 3
RHC 2033 Radiographic Pathology I 3
RHC2044 Radiographic Procedures I 4

Semester 3 (Core) Semester 3 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
LAN 3013 Bahasa Kebangsaan 3
LAN 3023 Islamic Studies / Moral Studies 3
LAN 3043
RHC 3023 Radiographic Pathology II 3
RHC 3034 Radiographic Procedure II 4
RHC 3015 Clinical Attachment I 5

Year 2 - Semester 4 & Semester 5 & Semester 6 (short semester)
Semester 4 (Core) Semester 4 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
LAN 3033 Malaysian Studies 3 GHU 2053
Organizational Behavior 3
RHC 4015 Clinical Attachment II 5
RHC 4023 Clinical Case Study 1 - Radiography 3
RHC 4033 Contrast Studies and Special Procedures 5
RHC 4043 Quality Assurance in Radiography 3

Semester 5 (Core) Semester 5 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
GHC 1013 Physics of Ultrasound 3
GHC 5043 Medical Writing 3
GHU 5103 Ultrasound of Abdomen 3
RHC 5014 Advance Imaging Modalities 4
RHC 5025 Clinical Attachment III 5

Semester 6 (Core) Semester 6 (Elective)
Code Course Name Credit
GHU 6033 Public Health, Law, and Ethics 3
RHC 6023 Clinical Case Study II – Sonography 3
RHC 6033 Image Assessment & Evaluation 3
RHC 6033 Clinical Attachment IV 5
RHC 6042 Intellectual Preparation & Moral
Leadership 2

SUMMARY OF THE SUBJECTS
Principles of the Public Health, Ethics & Law
Students are introduced to factors associated with the psychological, social, economic, cultural and political that contributes to the current healthcare issues. Organized selection of scientific and literature of health sciences, government policies and reports, scholarly articles, and court cases on public health law, ethics, and human rights will be conveyed in this course. A wide range of ethics related courses are offered such as Public Health, Law & Ethics, Intellectual Preparation & Moral Leadership for the students to better understand the working environment and the ethical issues that they’ll be facing. Also, they are taught about patient care to help with the understanding on how to attend to a patient’s needs during their working years ahead.

Human Studies
Students are exposed to studying of the human anatomy to have a basic knowledge of basic scientific facts and principles underlying normal body structure and function. They will then be able to describe why the study of anatomy and physiology is important to the health sciences related industry.
Clinical Assessments & Practices
Clinical assessments are meant to boost up student-patient contact and to see how good students are with patient interaction. Students will be trained on how to select the right equipment to ensure the quality of images being obtained. The clinical assessments and practices are to help the students fully understand, interpret and evaluate images that are obtained through Radiography. They will also learn how to improve on their image obtaining skills and interpretation skills.
Medical Imaging
Principles Radiographic, Radiation Biology and protection, Radiographic Pathology are some of the radiographic subjects that the students will be exposed to during their studies here. They will also be exposed to the ultrasound modality with courses such as Ultrasound of the abdomen and physics of ultrasound. Students will have discussion on diseases and pathologies that occurs in the body and how does the images appear on medical modalities. They will be well prepared on the different medical imaging modalities used at the end of the programme.
Scientific Health Writing Techniques
Conveying the ever changing and expanding world of science through books, journals, researches and media is essential. Therefore generating good writing skills in a student is vital. Students will develop writing skills to academic audiences by analyzing, interpreting, researching, synthesizing and evaluating a wide variety of sources throughout these courses. College Writing and Medical Writing syllabus will definitely build up creative and informative writing skills for science, medicine and health related fields in students.