Using the ECF: spotlight on practice education

How the College of Radiographers Education and Career Framework can help radiographers take on new educational roles

Published on June 1, 2023

The College of Radiographers’ Education and Career Framework for the Radiography Workforce (fourth edition) (ECF) provides guidance for the education and career development of the radiography profession. The ECF defines the various levels of radiography practice and the educational standards relating to each of them. The framework informs the CoR’s pre- and post-registration programme approval process and also informs the accreditation of individual members of the radiography workforce through the CoR accreditation schemes.

Importantly, the goal of the ECF is to support improved outcomes for patients through the education and development of the radiography workforce. The involvement of the CoR Patient Advisory Group in this research has been important to ensure the framework is patient centred.

Since the first edition of the ECF was produced in 2005, there have been many policy, technological and service delivery changes across imaging and radiotherapy services, as well as...

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