Overview
During this clinical unit you will apply the knowledge and skills previously learned to the clinical environment. Placed within radiology departments or clinics, you will work beside clinical radiographers to provide imaging services in a professional and effective manner. Performance assessments will focus on imaging procedures previously learned in the academic environment. You will use your knowledge of image evaluation to critique your images and suggest methods for improvement. Reflective practice will assist you in developing your skills and professional behaviour throughout this unit.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: Must be enrolled in Year 2 of Bachelor of Medical Imaging Course Corequisites: BIOH12008 Human Pathophysiology or MPAT12001 Medical Pathophysiology; and MEDI12001 Radiation Science; and MEDI12002 Science and Instrumentation 1; and MEDI12003 Imaging Procedures 1. If this unit has been successfully completed, it must have been completed within the last 12 months. Should this time limit have elapsed, the student must successfully complete a skills assessment or a period of skills revision as determined by the discipline lead.
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 2 - 2018
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 Unit evaluation survey
Students appreciated the quick feedback and encouragement
Maintain feedback for all assessment items and use it to offer regular guidance and encouragement
Feedback from Unit evaluation survey, discussions with medical imaging teaching team
The number of assessments and the restriction on the types of performance assessments caused some stress for students
The medical imaging teaching team have decided to review the restrictions to enable students to maintain a breadth of experience whilst still allowing more options for performance assessment. The number of assessments remains at the current level to ensure adequate assessment of clinical practice.
- Behave in a professional manner, adhering to the profession's Code of Conduct and working within your scope of practice.
- Reflect on your performance on an on-going basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
- Critique each image produced for technical sufficiency and formulation of quality improvement strategies where indicated.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of equipment, in keeping with your level of training and experience.
- Perform all examinations of the appendicular skeleton,thorax, abdomen and pelvis accurately, safely and effectively.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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5 - Practical Assessment - 0% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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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
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5 - Practical Assessment - 0% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
There are no specified texts for this unit. Students are expected to consult texts used in previous units to enhance their knowledge and understanding during this clinical unit.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.finlay@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Clinical Placement - 9th July to 15th July
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Optional drop-in Zoom session Thursday 12th July, 6pm AEST
Module/Topic
Clinical Placement - 16th July to 22nd July
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Upload your completed log book by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Optional drop-in Zoom session Thursday 19th July, 6pm AEST
Module/Topic
Clinical Placement - 23rd July to 29th July
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Upload your completed log book by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Optional drop-in Zoom session Thursday 26th July, 6pm AEST
Module/Topic
Clinical Placement - 30th July to 5th August
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Upload your completed log book by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Upload your formative GAPA by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Optional drop-in Zoom session Thursday 2nd August, 6pm AEST
Module/Topic
Clinical Placement - 6th August to 12th August
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Upload your completed log book by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Optional drop-in Zoom session Thursday 9th August, 6pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Upload your completed log book by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.
Upload your summative GAPA by Monday of this week if your last rostered shift was Friday of last week.l
The coordinator for this clinical unit is: Karen Finlay
During the term I may be teaching or be off campus. For this reason the preferred method of first contact is via email at: k.finlay@cqu.edu.au. My office number is 07 4923 2647.
1 Professional Practice Placement
This unit is part of a professionally accredited course within which students are expected to complete 50 weeks of clinical experience. For this unit you must attend 5 weeks of full-time clinical placement or the equivalent number of days through an approved alternative scheduling arrangement. The placement location(s) and timing have been arranged by the university in order to provide sufficient learning and assessment opportunities for you to meet the unit learning outcomes.
Your rostering, including daily start and end times, is determined by the clinical supervisor of the allocated placement site. The roster depends on the scheduling of imaging procedures that are relevant to your educational requirements, the typical hours of operation of the clinical facility and availability of sufficient supervision. You should not expect the roster to be modified to suit your personal life. There are no allocated personal leave days during this placement. You are not permitted to work extra shifts back to back in order to reduce the duration of clinical placement. You are required to achieve 100% attendance. This is defined as attending all hours relative to the quantity of time that you have been rostered by your clinical supervisor to achieve 5 weeks of full-time placement, minus any absence that is approved by both your clinical supervisor and unit coordinator. You are not required to attend on any public holidays that fall within your rostered weeks, nor are you required to make up those days.
If you need to be absent for a part or full day of placement, you must inform both your clinical supervisor and unit coordinator as soon as possible, preferably in advance of the missed time. If you have justifiable grounds for having missed time, you may apply for special consideration of the missed time to the unit coordinator by providing supporting documentation. This may impact the quantity of time you are required to make up. All unapproved absences must be made up. Any time to be made up is to be scheduled at the convenience of the clinical site. This may result in extension of the work day or work week. Note that not all facilities have extended hours of operation, so opportunities to make up time are site-dependent. If you attend outside of your normally rostered hours (e.g. late day, evening or weekend), you must still be under direct supervision and working within your scope of practice, and the caseload anticipated by your supervisor must be such that the time would provide useful learning experience. You will document your attendance relative to your rostered time each week in the weekly logbook file. The record must be accurate and complete. You must include any episodes of absence, lateness or early departure in the comments section. Your attendance record for each week of rostered time must be uploaded within the logbook file within 3 days of the last rostered shift of the week.
Upload of the week's attendance record in the logbook is required within 3 days of completing the last rostered shift of the week.
Weekly attendance will be reviewed by the unit coordinator, who will follow up within five days of upload on any absences or missing attendance records.
To obtain a score of ‘Pass’ for this assessment, you must:
Complete 100% attendance as defined above and have documented all attendance accurately and completely in your weekly log, and have submitted each week's completed log file within three days of completing your weekly shift.
At the end of the scheduled 5 weeks of placement, if you have not met the 100% attendance requirement AND you have documented justifiable grounds for your absenteeism, you will be provided additional scheduled time to make up the time you have missed. This scheduled make-up time may not be immediately following the scheduled 5 week placement, and/or may not be at the same placement site, depending on clinical availability. At the end of the scheduled 5 weeks of placement, if you have not met the 100% attendance requirement AND you do not have documented justifiable grounds for the absence, you will score 'Fail' for this assessment item.
- Behave in a professional manner, adhering to the profession's Code of Conduct and working within your scope of practice.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
2 Portfolio
The clinical logbook serves as a record of your depth and breadth of experience attained during the placement. It demonstrates the degree of progression of your skill development within and across procedure types. You should use this record to inform your reflection on learning and in formulating weekly learning goals that will support achievement of the unit outcomes. You must record in the electronic log tool (the Excel spreadsheet file provided on the unit Moodle site) a weekly listing of every imaging procedure in which you participate. Your level of involvement in each procedure is to be categorised as observed, assisted or performed, using the following definitions:
- Observed: you have watched the radiographer(s) carry out the procedure, and your involvement in the case has been limited to an occasional task directly assigned by someone else.
- Assisted in: you have been an integral member of the imaging team that is led by a radiographer, and you have carried out many tasks to support the completion of the procedure. You may have carried out all imaging tasks but were provided significant guidance and direction by your supervising radiographer.
- Performed: you have planned and carried out the imaging procedure with occasional guidance, assistance and/or direction provided by your supervising radiographer.
For general radiographic procedures, you must also categorise the patient by type:
- Basic: The patient has no significant limitation in his/her ability to carry out your instructions, and procedure involves only standard views/projections that do not require significant customisation to the patient's condition.
- Complex: The patient's condition is such that you must significantly modify your approach (patient care and/or technical tasks) to carrying out the procedure relative to the requirements for a basic patient.
- Paediatric: The patient is a child who is young enough to require you to modify your approach (patient care and/or technical tasks) to carrying out the procedure relative to a basic patient.
All information is to be recorded in such a way as to maintain patient confidentiality.
You must record any performance assessments that you have attempted, whether passed or failed. Performance assessment documentation includes the patient type (basic vs complex).
You must also log other clinical learning activities. This includes facility induction and orientation, any meetings, image critique sessions or other feedback/learning activities with your clinical supervisor or other clinical educator.
The weekly log is a multi-sheet Excel workbook with built-in calculations to track your progress during the unit. You must follow the log instructions provided on the unit Moodle site and within the log in order to ensure that tracking calculations are correct. This same master file must be updated weekly, so that each week’s submission contains a running tally of all week’s entries.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you have regular access to the technology needed to complete the spreadsheet each week. If you have a technical issue or personal circumstances that prevent you from being able to complete and upload your file by the weekly deadline, you MUST inform the unit coordinator of the situation, as this will require obtaining approval for an assessment extension. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, your failure to meet the weekly upload deadline will result in a Fail grade for this assessment item.
Log book must be uploaded via the unit Moodle site each week, within 3 days of completing the last rostered shift of the week.
Unit coordinator will follow up within 5 days for any log entries that require further information or discuss any areas of concern.
The logbook is graded on a 'Pass/Fail' basis. The logbook is assessed on accuracy and completeness of information entered and on timeliness of submissions. Should any week's upload have noticeable gaps, errors or omissions, you will be given one week to correct and resubmit that week's log.
To obtain a score of "Pass" for this assessment you must:
- ensure that your log book is complete and accurate in regards to your attendance, your participation in imaging examinations, assessments you have attempted, as well as supervisor meetings and/or other educational activities, AND
- submit your completed log book within 3 days of completing the last rostered shift of the week.
- Perform all examinations of the appendicular skeleton,thorax, abdomen and pelvis accurately, safely and effectively.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
3 Practical Assessment
Clinical placement occurs in the professional workplace. As as a clinical 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 clinical facility's staff and clients. As a student in a regulated healthcare profession in Australia, you are also required to be working toward consistent compliance with the Code of Conduct for regulated health professionals.
Your clinical supervisor will be working in the imaging areas with you, directly observing your day-to-day performance, and/or obtaining feedback from supervising radiographers who are doing so. These observations and collected feedback relate to your demonstrated knowledge, skills and behaviours over a span of time, not limited to a particular procedure type or patient case. The observations and feedback are then used to complete the Global Assessment of Professional Attributes (GAPA) form provided.
There are three main sections to the GAPA form:
- Section 1: initiative and communication
- Section 2: responsibility and demeanour
- Section 3: overall technical knowledge and skill
In each section there are multiple observable behaviours that you are required to demonstrate throughout your placement. Your assessor will score your performance based on how frequently and to what extent you demonstrate each of the listed behaviours. Your assessor is also encouraged to provide comments to expand on the scoring feedback.
This assessment occurs twice during the placement. The first occurs during week 3 and the second occurs at the end of Week 5. The first GAPA assessment is formative, meaning its function is to provide you and your unit coordinator with formal documented feedback on your performance, but there are no minimum required scores related to your final grade. You are expected to use that feedback to reflect on your performance, develop an action plan to address any areas of performance that are not yet at the target level for this placement, and use the remaining weeks to achieve those targets. For any behaviour that you score well on for this initial GAPA assessment, it is expected that you will continue to meet that level of performance or surpass it for the rest of the placement.
The final GAPA assessment occurs toward the end of Week 5, the final week of the placement. The end-of-placement assessment is summative, in that its primary use is to evaluate and document your performance relative to the stated performance targets, the minimum required scores listed in the Assessment Criteria section below. Your final overall grade in this assessment depends on where you stand relative to those performance targets. You should use this end-of-placement assessment as formative as well, to help inform your plans for improvement that you can implement in future placements.
For both week 3 and week 5 GAPAs you must use the assessment tool to self-assess your behaviours and compare your self-assessment with the assessment given by your supervisor.
Your clinical supervisor (or designated assessor) will meet with you after completing each assessment to discuss it with you. This is your opportunity to get clarification on any score or comment on the assessment. Once you have had that discussion, you both need to sign and date the assessment. You need to ensure that each completed assessment form has all required documentation, including the name, dated signature and registration number of your assessor as well as your dated signature. Your supervisor will provide you with a copy of the completed assessment form. You must then scan the supervisor-completed and self-completed GAPA forms and upload the file into the unit Moodle site using the link provided.
You are also required to log these assessment meetings in Section 3 of your relevant weekly logs, including the meeting date and a brief summary of the discussion plus the overall score of each assessment.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you remind your clinical supervisor at least a week prior to the assessment that it needs to be done, and book a meeting with him/her toward the end of the week that the assessment is due. This gives your supervisor the opportunity to collect feedback and to designate an alternate assessor if he/she will not be available.
If there are extenuating circumstances at the clinical facility that prevent you from being assessed during the required weeks, you must contact the unit coordinator in a timely manner. This will require obtaining approval for an assessment extension. It is also your responsibility to ensure regular access to the technology needed to upload your assessment files by the submission due dates. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, if you have not met all of the requirements listed in the Assessment Criteria section by the stated due dates, you will fail this assessment, and because this is a pass/fail unit that means you will receive a Fail grade for the unit.
The formative assessment must be completed by the end of week 3 of your clinical placement and uploaded within 3 days of the end of that shift. The summative assessment must be completed by the end of week 5 of your clinical course. This must be uploaded within 3 days of the end of that weekly shift.
The unit coordinator will review the uploaded assessment forms and provide you feedback within one week of submission of each item.
In order to achieve a score of ‘requirements met’ for this assessment, you must:
Upload both the self-assessed and supervisor-assessed GAPAs completed at the end of week 3 within 3 days of finishing that weekly shift. The week 3 GAPA is formative and there is no minimum level of attainment required.
Upload both the self-assessed and supervisor-assessed GAPAs completed at the end of week 5 within 3 days of finishing that weekly shift. The week 5 GAPA is summative and you must meet the required standards in each of the three identified areas.
Required standards:
1: Initiative & Communication - Score no less than "3" in all areas. A maximum of 1 "NA" score is acceptable.
2: Responsibility & Demeanour - Score no less than "3", with a maximum of 5 scores of "3". The remainder must achieve a score of "4" or above. A maximum of 1 "NA" score is acceptable.
3: Overall Technical Knowledge & Skill - Score no less than "2" for attributes pertaining to articulation. For use of equipment the minimum score is "3", with no "NA" scores.
- Behave in a professional manner, adhering to the profession's Code of Conduct and working within your scope of practice.
- Critique each image produced for technical sufficiency and formulation of quality improvement strategies where indicated.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of equipment, in keeping with your level of training and experience.
- Perform all examinations of the appendicular skeleton,thorax, abdomen and pelvis accurately, safely and effectively.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
4 Written Assessment
This task is designed to assess your reflections on your development as an imaging professional during this clinical placement and to assess your goal-setting for your own development.
In order to complete this task you must keep a note of your technical skills using the technical reflective flow-chart or a note of your skills in communication using the interaction reflective flow chart.
Task
By week 3, decide whether you will assess your technical skills or interaction skills using the reflection flow-charts available on the unit Moodle site. Use the relevant flow-chart to assess your skills in your chosen area. Having assessed your skills, by the end of week 3 you must reflect on one aspect of your chosen skill set.
You must set a“SMART” goal based on your reflection – that is the goal must be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-specific. Ensure that any goal set is able to be completed within the final two weeks of your clinical unit.
Complete one (1) SMART goal using the template provided on the unit Moodle site.
At the end of your clinical unit, reflect on your SMART goal and describe if you reached your goal, what you did to achieved this, or why you did not and what you could and should have done to ensure success. Describe how these goals have assisted in your continuing development as an imaging professional. The reflection on the success of your goal must be written at the end of the goal sheet. Aim for approximately 500 words for your reflection on the success of your goal and how it has assisted in your development as an imaging professional.
As a reflective report, it acceptable to use the first person for this piece, but all external sources must be correctly referenced.
This assessment is assessed upon:
- Development of one (1) relevant SMART goal based upon your reflection and feedback.
- Discussion regarding what you did to achieve these goals.
- Reflection regarding your perceived gaps in knowledge, technical abilities or professional behaviour.
- Reflection upon how the goals have affected your development and your own learning journey.
- Referencing.
A marking rubric will be posted on the unit Moodle site. You are required to achieve a 'requirements met' score in all areas of the marking rubric. In the event that the first submission does not meet minimum requirements as per the rubric, you will be provided detailed feedback and guidance by the unit coordinator. You will then have an opportunity to revise and resubmit the report within two weeks of receiving feedback.
- Reflect on your performance on an on-going basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
5 Practical Assessment
During the 5 weeks of clinical experience, you are expected to develop proficiency in general radiographic imaging to the level of an advanced beginner.
Once you have performed a given examination type multiple times and are able to carry it out with a moderate amount of guidance and correction from the supervising radiographer, you are to request an assessment in that examination type. Performance assessments may be conducted by your clinical supervisor or a radiographer designated as an assessor by your supervisor. The assessor will observe you as you perform one imaging examination. Your assessor will use the assessment tool provided on the unit Moodle site to document the level of independence, completeness and correctness you have demonstrated in each of the required tasks. Your assessor may also provide comments on what was done well and what needs improvement.
You must ensure that each completed assessment form has all required information, including the name, dated signature and registration number of your assessor, as well as your dated signature. This is the case whether you have passed or failed the assessment. If a radiographer other than your clinical supervisor completed the assessment, it is your responsibility to ensure that that your supervisor knows the outcome of each attempted assessment and that he/she is provided with the original of the completed assessment form. Your supervisor will provide you with a copy of the completed assessment form. You must then scan it and upload each form into the unit Moodle site using the link provided. The form for each attempted assessment, whether passed or not, must be uploaded into Moodle.
There is no limit to the number of attempts you may make at any performance assessment. However, you must recognise that the clinical site staff's first priority is patient care.
Over the course of the placement, you must pass a total of 4 performance assessments as detailed below:
- upper extremities
- lower extremities
- shoulder girdle
- bony thorax
- chest
- abdomen
- pelvic girdle
Each assessment must be on an examinaion of a different anatomical region as described above. You may not, for example, complete an assessment for a wrist and later complete an assessment for an elbow, as these are both categories within the 'upper extremities' anatomical region.
All four assessments must have been completed by the end of week 5 of the placement. Each completed performance assessment form must be uploaded within 3 days of completing the weekly shift in which the assessment was done.
Any queries will be followed up by the unit coordinator within one week.
In order to achieve a score of ‘requirements met’ for this assessment, you must:
- Upload the assessments into Moodle within 3 days of completing the weekly shift in which the assessment was completed.
- Ensure that all completed assessment forms are signed and dated by you and the radiographer who performed the assessment.
- Ensure that the four assessments are completed on different anatomical regions as described within the task description.
- Achieve a score of at least '5' in the critical tasks 1 & 2.
- Achieve a minimum score of '3' in other tasks, with a maximum of 5 scores of '3' allowable
- Achieve a score of '4' or better in all other tasks.
- Behave in a professional manner, adhering to the profession's Code of Conduct and working within your scope of practice.
- Reflect on your performance on an on-going basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
- Critique each image produced for technical sufficiency and formulation of quality improvement strategies where indicated.
- Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of equipment, in keeping with your level of training and experience.
- Perform all examinations of the appendicular skeleton,thorax, abdomen and pelvis accurately, safely and effectively.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- 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.