Overview
On successful completion of this work integrated learning unit students should be able to apply theoretical knowledge attained in preceding and concurrent units to the professional work environment for the discipline area they are preparing to enter. This health industry practical experience allows students to interact with practicing professionals and to experience the work role which should further develop their technical skills.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: BMSC11003 Introduction to Medical Sciences and BMSC11002 Human Body Systems 2 and BMSC11004 Introduction to Biochemistry OR BMSC11005 Foundations of Biochemistry. Co-requisite: BMSC12003 Haematology
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Accreditation body review
Placement be extended to allow for an improved student learning experience
This unit (BMSC12002) and another 3 week placement unit (BMSC12005) were combined into a single 6 week placement (BMSC12005). BMSC12002 is now in teach-out mode, no new enrollments will be taken after 2018.
- Apply knowledge and practical skills in a professional work role context
- Assess workflow within a medical laboratory, including management roles
- Explore quality assurance and quality control procedures
- Understand the ethical and legal considerations for patient data processing and storage
- Discuss the diagnostic process
- Develop communication and problem solving skills in the workplace
This unit provides the opportunity for students in the Medical Sciences (Pathology) degree course to learn key practical skills, apply the knowledge learned in the class and demonstrate competence in the practice of medical laboratory science. The unit is totally based in the workplace and both Internal and External students will be required to undertake 3 weeks (15 days) of placement in a designated pathology laboratory. The student will be offered a choice of geographical locations and preferred weeks for placement, but actual placement is dependent on availability.
This unit is offered to students in the second year of the pathology specialisation of the undergraduate course in medical science. It was developed in response to feedback from employers and the professional body that upon graduation students should be able to demonstrate a basic set of competencies recognised by employing private and public sector pathology laboratories. The learning outcomes have therefore been written in a broad context to allow flexibility within the actual placement.
Whilst the actual placement may vary slightly depending on the instrumentation, test profile offered by a particular laboratory and the training opportunities that present themselves, the student will be expected to adopt professional attitudes and undertake training as directed whilst under supervision. The areas of practical training and competence assessment during this period of clinical placement are aligned with theoretical units co-taught in term 1 of the 2nd year of the degree. This then supports learning and success in both directions; theoretical supporting placement and placement contextualising theory.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
| 2 - Off-campus Activity - 50% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Off-campus Activity - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
This is a Clinical Placement unit and there is no required textbook.
The unit is in teach out and enrolments are expected to be low, offered ROK and ONL.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
w.pederick@cqu.edu.au
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Actual placement schedule will differ for each student. Placements will be arranged for each individual student by liaison with the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences Clinical Placement Coordinator.
A weekly Zoom session is held to allow for contact with students whilst on placement.
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This unit provides you the opportunity to complete 3 weeks of work placement with a placement provider in Pathology. Each student will complete their placement as per the schedule organised with the Work Integrated Learning officers of the School of Health, Medical and Applied Science. Since this unit is entirely based on work placement, there are no lectures or tutorials.
Absenteeism: Work placement is an integral part of the CG93 / CL10 courses. if you are unable to attend your scheduled placement for any reason, please advise the Work Integrated Learning officers of the School of Health, Medical and Applied Science as soon as possible before the start of the scheduled placement.
Sick certificates: In case you are unable to attend some part of your placement due to sickness, please submit a medical or health related certificate to the unit coordinator. Medical or health-related certificates must be in the approved formats articulated in the CQUniversity Assessment Policy and Procedure (HE Coursework).
In the event that your condition could harm or negatively impact either yourself or those around you (e.g. put you at risk of exacerbating an injury, or pass on viral or bacterial infections to other students and staff), you will be sent home and will need to provide acceptable medical documentation for your absence, as stated above. Students who are sick and/or injured and cannot attend more than 3 days of work placement must submit a medical certificate to the unit coordinator and notify their work placement supervisor. In such event, alternative arrangements to complete the remaining hours of work placement will be made after consultation with the placement provider, and the unit coordinator.
Contacts: Please feel free to use the 'General Discussion' forum as a social space to communicate with other students in this unit. Please ensure that your conduct in this forum is consistent with that outlined in the Student Charter.
Teaching staff will monitor posts on the 'Q&A' forum. The Q&A forum is a great place to post questions relevant to your study or laboratory sessions. Responses from staff will be made available to all students. Don't be shy in asking questions, as you will often find that other students also share your query. Alternatively, if you have a personal question, please do not hesitate to contact me directly by email: w.pederick@cqu.edu.au or telephone 07 4930 9305.
Mr Wayne Pederick
Discipline Lead for Pathology
w.pederick@cqu.edu.au
A weekly Zoom session is held to allow students an opportunity to contact the Unit Coordinator with queries or concerns.
See the Moodle page for details.
1 Practical and Written Assessment
To provide structure to the learning, a placement workbook will act as the principle learning activity and assessment tool. The workbook has been developed in collaboration with placement providers and employers and aligns with Standards of Competence issued by the Australian Institute of Medical Scientists (AIMS). Training 'at the bench' will be supervised by a qualified Medical Scientist, but actual training may be delegated to other competent staff. A series of activities have been designed to test your ability to contextualise the training. At the end of periods of training in particular tasks the training supervisor will assess competence and sign a declaration that you have demonstrated a basic level of competence to perform the defined task. To develop communication skills you will be encouraged to ask questions of other members of the team in order to answer some of the tasks in the workbook.
Some tasks can be marked against the standard CQUniversity grading criteria and will be used to determine an overall mark for the course, whilst the competence-based tasks will be evaluated on a simple pass/fail basis. You must pass all competence-based tasks for which you have received training in order that the scored tasks can be used to determine the overall course grade. The workbook should be supported by a portfolio of additional evidence that you would like to include to demonstrate your knowledge, understanding and application during the placement. Such a portfolio is useful to show potential employers at interview and demonstrates how you have exceeded expectations.
To be submitted 1 week after completion of the placement
3 weeks after submission of the workbook
The workbook provides a breakdown of marks associated for each task and also provides guidance on what the marker is expecting you to include or consider. A minimum overall mark of 50% must be achieved for the marked assessment to pass the unit.
You must pass all competence-based tasks for which you have received training in order that the scored tasks can be used to determine the overall grade for the unit. Competence based tasks are outlined within your workbook.
- Apply knowledge and practical skills in a professional work role context
- Assess workflow within a medical laboratory, including management roles
- Explore quality assurance and quality control procedures
- Understand the ethical and legal considerations for patient data processing and storage
- Discuss the diagnostic process
- Develop communication and problem solving skills in the workplace
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Off-campus Activity
Clinical Placement occurs in the professional workplace. As a student you are provided access to that workplace on the condition that you demonstrate behaviours and attributes of a healthcare professional and present a positive image to the placement facility's staff and patients. Professional attributes such as good team work, communication, patient care and safe practice are highly valued by employers. In this placement, you will demonstrate your skills in this area.
It is your responsibility to ensure you have provided documentary evidence where applicable(to be forwarded to smas-clinicalplacements@cqu.edu.au) of the following BEFORE your placement commences:
- Australian Blue Card
- First Aid Certificate
- Hepatitis B vaccination
- Tuberculosis vaccination
PRIOR to commencement of your placement you will be required to complete a pre-placement checklist which is available on the Sonia site. The completed checklist must be submitted to the Sonia site.
Further information on the pre-placement requirements is available on the Sonia site.
Your placement supervisor will be requested to complete, sign and return a report to the SHMAS Clinical Placements Coordinator regarding your placement. This report will assess:
- Adherence to Health and Safety requirements whilst on placement
- Respect for confidentiality requirements whilst on placement
- Professionalism, interaction and communication whilst on placement
- Professional behaviour whilst on placement
- Capability whilst on placement
- Additional comments
Your placement supervisor will be requested to complete, sign, and return a report to the Clinical Placements Coordinator of the School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences regarding your placement. Reports will be submitted on completion of your placement. These evaluations should be discussed with you prior to submission.
Submitted by supervisor after placement completion
N/A - student conduct either satisfactory or not
You must achieve at least 50% of the total possible score for this piece of assessment to pass the unit.
If your placement supervisor recommends failure in their additional comments, you may be failed for this unit, regardless of your overall score.
- Apply knowledge and practical skills in a professional work role context
- Understand the ethical and legal considerations for patient data processing and storage
- Discuss the diagnostic process
- Develop communication and problem solving skills in the workplace
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
