You are to write an essay, which cites a variety of sources to support your discussion on the following topic:

'Cancer treatment has improved significantly in recent years. However some chemotherapeutic drugs are limited by the risk of cardiotoxicity. Cardiotoxicity can appear early or late in the course of the disease treatment and may vary from sub-clinical myocardial dysfunction to irreversible heart failure or even death. Patient prognosis relies on the early detection of myocardial dysfunction and can be achieved through serial monitoring with non-invasive cardiac imaging methods.'

Within your essay:

• Discuss chemotherapy-induce cardiotoxicity and proposed mechanisms.
• Compare and contrast diagnostic benefits offered by various imaging modalities used to screen for cardiotoxicity.
• Include diagrams or images to enhance audience understanding of benefits or caveats associated with pertinent measurement techniques or assessment strategies.
• Identify key indices which would suggest diagnosis.
• Discuss patient management and prognosis following diagnosis.

Your target audience is fellow clinical technical staff and student peers.

This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. As with all other university assessments, colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct, and may lead to action being taken the Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching HMAS.

Students are advised to refer to the 'Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework) document for additional university guidelines regarding assessments.

You will be assessed on your ability to:

• Locate and critically evaluate information.
• Produce a scholarly essay that is well written, and evidence based.
• Use appropriate technical terms, spelling, grammar and referencing.
• Address key points as outlined in the task description.

Word count: 2000 words count +/- 10%.  Word count does not include headings or references but does include diagram explanations and labelling.

Referencing: Vancouver.  Minimum 5 peer reviewed journal articles must be cited. Literature titles must be current (<5 years of age), excepting seminal works.

A detailed marking rubric can be found on the Moodle site.

This online test will assess your understanding of the content presented within this unit. Questions may be drawn from content presented in lectures, additional resources provided (e.g. prescribed readings) and tutorial presentations.

• Perusal time and online test duration will be 130 minutes in total.
• Open book conditions.
• It is recommended that you have a calculator available when sitting the online test.

Once started, the online test cannot be paused or restarted. Only one attempt is permitted.

• The online test will automatically close and submit completed student answers once the allocated time has elapsed.
• The duration of this test is tailored to promote recall of fact, rather than research of answers unknown.

You will be required to answer a variety of online questions. Questions:

• may include multiple choice, short answer, essay style or image interpretation format.
• will be drawn from a resource bank, to allow tests to be different for each student.

Students will be required to be familiar with both normal and pathological echocardiographic and anatomical images.

Students are reminded that IT support from the university Information and Technology Division (TASAC) is only available during AEST business hours. It is recommended that the online test is completed during business hours.

In the absence of an approved extension, this assessment cannot be completed at a later time. Students will receive a mark of zero (or fail) for this assessment, if you have not completed it by the scheduled date and time and do not have an extension.

This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. Colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct and may lead to action being taken the Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching HMAS.

Students are advised to refer to the 'Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework) document for additional university guidelines regarding assessments.

Question responses will be assessed according to the:

• use of appropriate terminology and descriptors as well as grammar and spelling.
• student’s ability to appropriately interpret presented sonographic images and cardiac assessment data.
• student's ability to succinctly respond with accurate answers.

The number of marks allocated for each question will be indicated within the online test.  Question marks are allocated based on the accuracy, depth and breath of required responses.

The Clinical Case Log Book is a document designed to track clinical experience. This log book documents all observed, partially or fully completed echocardiography cases that a student is exposed to during clinical employ. It is recommended that you update this logbook daily.

This assessment task requires the submission of a clinical case log book, detailing clinical experience since course enrolment.

A template for the Clinical Case Log book is supplied in a word document format on the Moodle site. Students were supplied this same Clinical Case Log Book at the time of course enrolment.

• The word document is designed to facilitate easy electronic submission at various checkpoints throughout unit and course enrolment. The clinical supervisor's digital signature can be used to verify authenticity of entries on the word document.
• Alternatively, the word document can be printed, manually completed and scanned to a digital file format for submission.

A Clinical Case Log book submission can be requested at any point during course enrolment, at the discretion of the university course coordinator.

The 'Clinical Case Log book' incorporates the following data:

1. The date of each examination.
2. Allocation of a unique identifier for each patient to ensure anonymity.
3. Referral indications
4. Type of echocardiogram performed (i.e. Adult, Paediatric, Stress/Dobutamine, TOE)
5. Student level of scan participation (Observed, partially, or fully completed examination)
6. Case Findings

It is recommended that a student participate in an average of 180 echocardiographic studies per 12 week term of course enrolment. (This is an average of 5 scans per day, 3 days per week.)

To be awarded a PASS, all documentation must be completed and submitted by the corresponding due date and time.

The Clinical Case Log book will be reviewed to ensure that:

• an acceptable volume of clinical work has been achieved.
• exposure to sufficient case study complexity has been demonstrated to support ongoing knowledge and practical skill development.
• cases have been documented appropriately.