CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Staff workplace attendance and the ability to participate in rosters are critical to the success and morale of a medical imaging team, and therefore the quality of patient care provided by that team.

This unit is part of a professionally accredited course with significant Work Integrated Learning components. For this unit you must attend 7 weeks + 2 days 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 course in order to provide sufficient learning and assessment opportunities for you to meet the unit learning outcomes.

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 7 weeks + 2 days of full-time placement, minus any exceptional absence that is approved by both your clinical supervisor and unit coordinator. (Exceptional absence is separate from allocated personal leave days as discussed below.) 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 your allocated placement site terminates your placement due to your behavioural issues, as per the University’s Work Integrated Learning policy, you will not be provided any further placement for the unit. This will result in a Fail grade for the unit.

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. You are not permitted to work extra shifts back to back in order to reduce the duration of clinical placement.

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. There are three allocated personal leave days during this placement. You are not required to take this leave, but you do have the flexibility to use the three personal leave days as a single 3 day-long block or as a combination of single or multiple days. If you use any leave days in Weeks 1-7, then you will attend your full scheduled 8th week. If you have not used any leave in Weeks 1-7, then Week 7 day 2 is your final day of the placement.

Personal leave days may only be taken with the explicit approval of your clinical supervisor, and any leave days taken will add to the length of your clinical placement. Your personal leave days must be used for missed time due to illness, injury, caregiver responsibilities or other personal reasons for missing placement. Use the leave application form on the unit Moodle site to seek the approval of your clinical supervisor and upload the completed form to Moodle.

All unapproved absences must be made up. Any time to be made up is to be scheduled at the convenience of the clinical site and approved by your supervisor. 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.

For any time missed beyond the three personal leave days, 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. Note that only in exceptional circumstances will any missed time be waived.

You must document your attendance relative to your rostered time each week in your weekly logbook. The record must be accurate and complete. You must include any episodes of absence including scheduled leave days, lateness or early departure in the comments section. 

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

AI scale for this task: No AI. You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. This assessment ensures you can demonstrate the core skills you will need in your profession without GenAI support.

Document weekly attendance in the logbook and submit within 3 calendar days of the last rostered shift of the week.

Weekly attendance will be reviewed within 5 working days of the log submission with follow-up on any absences or incomplete attendance records.

To obtain a score of Pass for this assessment, you must:

• complete 100% attendance as defined above,
• have documented all attendance accurately and completely in your weekly log, and
• have submitted each week's completed logbook within 3 days of the last rostered shift of the week.

At the end of the scheduled 8 weeks of placement:

• if you have not met the 100% attendance requirement (7 weeks + 2 days) AND you do have documented justifiable grounds for your absence, 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 placement, and/or may not be at the same placement site, depending on clinical availability.
• if you have not met the 100% attendance requirement (7 weeks + 2 days) AND you do not have documented justifiable grounds for the absence, you will score 'Fail' for this assessment item.

• Vancouver

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.

Logging Clinical Participation

You must record in the electronic logbook spreadsheet (provided within 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 definitions provided. There are no minimum or maximum target numbers for any category of involvement, nor are there target numbers for any examination type.

• Observed: You must have watched the radiographer(s) carry out the procedure, and your involvement in the case has been limited to an occasional task 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 their ability to carry out your instructions, and the 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. This includes patients with minor traumatic injuries.
• 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.
• Trauma: The patient has major traumatic injury/injuries requiring significant modification to your approach (patient care and/or technical tasks).  

All information is to be recorded in such a way as to maintain patient confidentiality.

Logging clinical Assessments

You must log any performance assessments and behavioural assessments (GAPAs) you have attempted, whether passed or failed. All completed assessment forms are an extension of your log documentation, as they provide further evidence of your clinical learning experiences. Performance assessment documentation must include the patient type (basic vs complex).

Logging other learning Activities

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 facility induction and orientation must be completed by your second day of placement and logged in your logbook. If you have not completed a site induction/orientation by the end of the second day of placement, see your clinical educator/site supervisor and contact your unit coordinator to advise.

Additional logging requirements

In addition to noting attendance, imaging procedures and performance assessments, your logbook must have a minimum of 3 notation entries each week. This could include documentation of other clinical learning activities or explanation of types of x-rays, scans, patients, scenarios or helpful tips that you encountered throughout the week.

Interprofessional practice experience and interview

Whilst on placement you will have opportunities to work alongside other health professionals and thus learn from and about them. In weekly log you are expected to document one event each week where you participated in a procedure or other learning activity involving a non-radiographer member of the healthcare team at your facility. In addition, during your placement you must conduct a brief interview of a non-radiographer member of the team to find out their roles and responsibilities and how their role impacts the patient's imaging experience. you will document the interview summary in the Qualitative section of the logbook.

Use and submission of the electronic logbook

The weekly log is an electronic spreadsheet within Moodle that has built-in calculations to track your progress during the unit. Your logbook must be updated and submitted weekly, and each week’s submission will be a cumulative record of all weeks containing a running tally of examinations and assessments.

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 accurately complete and upload your file by the standard due dates, you MUST inform the unit coordinator and provide just cause by the due date to obtain approval for an assessment extension.

In the absence of an approved extension, your failure to meet the weekly logbook submission due date will result in a Fail for this assessment item. If you have more than two incidents of either missing the due date and/or having your logbook returned to you for correction due to inaccuracy or incompleteness, you will fail this assessment task.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

AI scale for this task: No AI. You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. This assessment ensures you can demonstrate the core skills you will need in your profession without GenAI support.

MRPBA Professional Capabilities
This assessment task maps to the following MRPBA Professional Capabilities (2026):

• MRPBA Domain 1A, Key capability 1

Logbook must be submitted each week, within 3 calendar days of the last rostered shift of the week.

Logbook will be reviewed within 5 working days of submission with follow-up on any log entries that require further information or to 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. You must ensure that your logbook is complete and accurate in regards to your attendance, your participation in medical imaging procedures, assessments you have attempted, as well as supervisor meetings and /or other educational activities. You must meet the stated standards for documentation completeness and timeliness of your submissions.

The marker will review your week's submission, provide feedback, then issue one of four scores for the week's submission:

• Pass without a strike (all components correctly completed and submitted on time)
• Pass with a strike (all components completed correctly but submitted late without a valid extension)
• Resubmit without a strike (small number of minor errors/omissions only, update and resubmit within one week to convert to a Pass for the week)
• Resubmit with a strike (significant errors/omissions, update and resubmit within one week to convert to Pass for the week)

To obtain a total score of Pass for this assessment at the end of the placement, you must:

• Achieve a Pass score for each week's submission
• Accumulate no more than two strikes in total over the eight submissions
• Include an interprofessional practice interview summary in one of the eight submissions.

• Vancouver

During the 7 weeks + 2 days of clinical experience, you are expected to further develop proficiency in general radiography of the axial and appendicular skeleton (including craniofacial structures), chest and abdomen.

Planning for performance assessments:

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 (refer to table below in Assessment Criteria section), 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 the radiographic 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 in that single examination. The assessment is formative as well as summative in that it provides you with feedback on your relative strengths and areas for improvement. Should you not attain the minimum required score, you must create an action plan based on the feedback, on how you intend to improve your performance in the required area/s. Once you have carried out that action plan, you may re-attempt the assessment.

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. Opportunities for assessment are limited by the time available as well as the availability of suitable patients and suitable examinations. You need to take initiative in starting the assessment process in a timely manner in order to ensure you will complete the assessments in the placement time available. If there are extenuating circumstances at the clinical facility that limit your ability to access radiographic examinations to undergo assessments, then you must discuss this with your clinical supervisor AND contact the unit coordinator in a timely manner, so that action can be taken prior to the end of placement.

Scope of assessments:

Over the course of the placement, you must pass 6 performance assessments in general radiography. Each assessment must be on an examination of a different anatomical region as catergorised below. 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. 

• upper extremities
• lower extremities
• shoulder girdle
• pelvic girdle
• bony thorax
• spine
• chest
• abdomen
• cranio-facial
• dental

All information is to be recorded in such a way as to maintain patient confidentiality.

Documentation and submission of the completed assessment:

You must ensure that each completed assessment form has all required information, including the name, dated signature and MRPBA registration number of your assessor, as well as your dated signature. (Note that both your signature and your assessor's signature must be done on a hard copy document. Digital signatures are not accepted.) If you submit an incomplete form, you will be provided with feedback and will need to resubmit the completed form within one week. This is the case whether you have passed or failed the assessment.

If a radiographer other than your clinical supervisor completes the assessment, it is your responsibility to ensure that your supervisor knows the outcome of each attempted assessment and that they are 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.

Each completed performance assessment form must be uploaded within 3 days of completing the weekly shift in which the assessment was completed, with the final date for completing and submitting all forms by the end of Week 7. Any performance assessments completed after that date will be accepted only with an approved extension from the unit coordinator. If you are unable to meet the stated due dates for uploading your completed form, you MUST inform your unit coordinator and provide just cause by the due date to obtain approval for an assessment extension.

If you have more than two incidents of either missing the due date and/or having your performance assessments returned to you for correction due to inaccuracy or incompleteness, you will fail this assessment task.

This is a pass/fail assessment item. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, if you have not met all of the minimum criteria for achieving a score of 'Pass' on this assessment, you will receive a Fail grade for the unit. 

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

AI scale for this task: No AI. You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. This assessment ensures you can demonstrate the core skills you will need in your profession without GenAI support.

MRPBA Professional Capabilities and NSQHS Standards
This assessment task maps to the following MRPBA Professional Capabilities (2026) and NSQHS Standards (2021)

• MRPBA Domain 1, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 
• MRPBA Domain 1A, Key capability 1
• MRPBA Domain 2, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4
• MRPBA Domain 3, Key capability 1, 2, 3
• MRPBA Domain 5, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4
• NSQHS Standard 2
• NSQHS Standard 3
• NSQHS Standard 6

Each completed performance assessment form must be uploaded within 3 days of completing the last rostered shift of the week in which the assessment was completed. The final date for completing and submitting all assessment forms is end of Week 7.

Assessments will be reviewed and feedback provided within 5 working days of upload of each item.

You must meet the minimum requirements for all performance assessments. Each performance assessment measures your ability to carry out core tasks of an radiographic imaging examination. There are 'critical' and 'non-critical' tasks. The assessor will score your observed performance of each task using the 1 - 6 scale, below. The scale is based on quantity of assistance and correction you required to perform each task.

To obtain a score of Pass score on each of the six performance assessments, you must achieve the following scores:

• a minimum score of '5' for critical tasks 1 & 2
• no more than 1 non-critical task scored at '3'
• all remaining non-critical tasks scored at '4' or better

To obtain a score of Pass for this assessment, you must:

• meet the minimum requirements for each assessment, as detailed above in Assessment Criteria,
• ensure that each of the 6 performance assessments are completed on different anatomical regions, as detailed in the Task Description above, and
• meet the stated standards of documentation completeness and timeliness, such that you have no more than two incidents in total of incompleteness or lateness.

• Vancouver

Clinical placement occurs in the professional workplace. As a clinical student you are provided access to that workplace on the condition that you demonstrate behaviours and attributes of a healthcare professional, present a positive image to the clinical facility's staff and clients, and comply with site's policies. As a student in a regulated healthcare profession in Australia, you are also required to be working toward consistent compliance with the Profession's Code of Conduct. As a CQUniversity student you must also meet the general behavioural requirements of the Student Conduct Policy and Procedure and refrain from misconduct as described in that Procedure.

Assessment process:

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. This is not limited to a particular procedure or patient case. The observations and feedback are then used to complete the Global Assessment of Professional Attributes (GAPA) form provided on the unit Moodle site.

There are four main sections to the GAPA form:

• Section 1: initiative and communication
• Section 2: responsibility and demeanour
• Section 3: overall technical knowledge and skill
• Section 4: adherence to site policies

 
In each section, there are multiple observable behaviours that are required. For most behaviours, it is expected that you are aiming toward consistent performance but further development may be required to reach the level expected of a newly qualified practitioner. These behaviours are categorised as non-critical.

There is one critical behaviour: adhering to site policies. It is expected that all students, right from their first placement, are capable of full and ongoing compliance with site policies. This critical behaviour 'Adheres to site policies regarding privacy, confidentiality, use of mobile devices and use of social media' is scored separately using the following scale:

• Full compliance
• One incident of non-compliance
• More than one incident of non-compliance. 

A student who is non-compliant on a single occasion will receive a warning from the supervising radiographer or clinical supervisor. This incident will be considered behavioural misconduct. This warning may be issued initially in verbal form or in writing. The clinical supervisor will inform the unit coordinator of the situation. The Head of Course will then lodge a formal report of behavioural misconduct. This will be addressed separately from the scoring of the GAPA.

Any student who violates site policy more than once during a placement unit (whether violation of the same or a different policy as previously) will fail the GAPA. This will result in a Fail grade for the unit. This repeated behaviour is considered serious misconduct and thus will also be dealt with under the Student Conduct Policy and Procedure.

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. 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.

Timing of assessment:

This assessment occurs twice during the placement. The first occurs during Week 3 and the second and final GAPA occurs in the final week of placement. If you haven't used any of your assigned days of leave during your placement, the final GAPA will be on completion of 7 weeks + 2 days.

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 completed and book a meeting with them 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 they will not be available.

Formative and summative use of the GAPA:

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 for Sections 1, 2 and 3. Adherence to site policies (Section 4) is a requirement for all GAPAs. 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, it is expected that you will continue to meet that level of performance or surpass it for the remainder of the placement.

The end-of-placement GAPA 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 score 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.

Self-assessment:

For both GAPAs, prior to meeting with your supervisor, you must also use the assessment tool to self-assess your behaviours. Complete the form and take it with you to your meeting with your supervisor to aid in the discussion of your progress.

Documentation and submission requirements:

Once you have met with your supervisor about your GAPA, you both need to sign and date both assessment documents (your supervisor's assessment and your self-assessment). You need to ensure that each completed assessment form has scores entered in all sections and has all required information, including the name, dated signature and MRPBA registration number of your assessor, as well as your dated signature. (Note that both you and your supervisor must sign a hard copy document. Electronic signatures are not accepted.)

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 required to log these assessment meetings in 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 regular access to the technology needed to upload your assessment files by the submission due dates. Recognise that the clinical facility is not responsible for providing you access to computer facilities for your assessments.

If you have a technical issue or personal circumstances that prevent you from being able to accurately complete and upload your file by the standard due date, you MUST inform the unit coordinator by the due date and provide just cause.

If you have more than two incidents of either missing the due date and/or having your supervisor-completed GAPA or self-completed GAPA returned to you for correction due to inaccuracy or incompleteness, you will fail this assessment task.

Assessment due dates and extensions:

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 to explain the situation and request an extension.

This is a pass/fail assessment item. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, if you have not met all of the minimum criteria for achieving a score of Pass on this assessment, you will receive a Fail grade for the unit.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment.

AI scale for this task: No AI. You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. This assessment ensures you can demonstrate the core skills you will need in your profession without GenAI support.

MRPBA Professional Capabilities

This assessment task maps to the following MRPBA Professional Capabilities (2026):

• MRPBA Domain 1, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 5
• MRPBA Domain 1A, Key capability 1
• MRPBA Domain 2, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4
• MRPBA Domain 3, Key capability 1, 2, 3
• MRPBA Domain 5, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4
• MRPBA Domain 6, Key capability 1, 3

The first GAPA must be completed by the end of Week 3 and the final GAPA completed by the end of placement. Each completed form must be uploaded within 3 days of the last rostered shift of the week in which the assessment was completed.

Assessments will be reviewed and feedback provided within 5 working days of upload of each item.

The criteria for assessment are detailed on the Global Assessment of Professional Attributes form with the listed required behaviours and attributes.

Non-critical behaviours and attributes:

The assessor will use the stated 1-6 scale to indicate the frequency and extent to which you demonstrate each of those.

The minimum required scores for each section's non-critical behaviours and attributes are:

Section 1: Initiative & Communication

• Minimum score on any task is '3'
• No more than 3 scores of '3'

Section 2: Responsibility & Demeanour

• Minimum score of '4' in all areas

Section 3: Overall Technical Knowledge & Skill

• Minimum score of '3' in all areas

Critical behaviour:

The behaviour 'Adheres to site policies on privacy, confidentiality, use of mobile devices and use of social media' is scored separately using the following scale:

• Full compliance
• One incident of non-compliance
• More than one incident of non-compliance.

Note the procedure for non-compliance with Section 4 of the GAPA, as detailed above in Task Description.

To obtain a score of Pass for this assessment, you must:

• undergo all GAPAs by the due dates listed,
• on the summative GAPA, meet the minimum required scores in all sections, and
• meet the stated standards of documentation completeness and timeliness, such that you have no more than two incidents in total of incompleteness or lateness.

• Vancouver

Critical reflection is an on-going cycle of experience, reflection, learning and practice, this is a critical skill for your professional development. The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (MRPBA) specifies in their Professional Capabilities that to deliver culturally safe, person-centred care efficiently and effectively, medical radiation practitioners have a responsibility to critically monitor their practice through a range of reflective processes that are evidence informed. (MRPBA, 2026)

This assessment further develops your skills of reflection on your development as an imaging professional and your goal setting to improve your practice.

For this task you will use reflection to develop as a professional by using the feedback from your clinical educators and self-assessing the weaker areas of your performance of radiographic examinations, and formulating a goal to address one of these areas that requires improvement. This will enable you to gain a greater insight into the motivations behind your performance and for you to use this knowledge to direct your own self-development.

The assessment will be submitted in two parts. You will use the Reflection and Action Plan template provided in Moodle to complete the full assessment piece. The Part A submission will include the SMART goal only. Part B submission will include the fully completed template.

Part A:

To assist in writing your SMART goal, you will reflect on your clinical performance in Weeks 1 to 3, inclusive. You will compile a list of feedback based on your technical performance, patient care and communication skills that you have demonstrated in the first weeks of your clinical placement. Your feedback is to be logged in the Feedback section of the Reflection and Action Plan template. The information can include any feedback you receive from your placement supervisor or clinical educators and your own observations of your performance. For each week, reflect on what went well and what you can improve upon for the following week.

From the feedback obtained during your first three weeks of placement, select one attribute that you feel requires improvement to reflect upon more deeply. You will utilise the feedback of your chosen attribute to develop an action plan to implement for the remainder of your clinical placement. You will discuss how you plan to improve the performance of the attribute by setting a SMART goal (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic and Time-based). The timeframe for achieving this goal is from Week 4 to the end of your clinical placement.

For Part A, you will be required to complete and submit the SMART goal only of the template. This part submission should consist of 250 words. 

You will receive formative feedback for this section to ascertain the appropriateness of your SMART goal.

Part B:

Using your own observations and evidence from your final GAPA, reflect on your SMART goal and describe if and how you reached your goal. Use the questions within the Outcome Reflection section of the template to analyse what you did to achieve your goal, or why you did not, and what you should have done to ensure success. Describe how this goal has assisted in your continuing development as an imaging professional.

The Part B submission will consist of the fully completed Reflection and Action Plan template. The Outcome Reflection section should consist of approximately 400-900 words. References do not contribute to the word count.

Other submission guidelines: 

• A Word template will be provided to enter your responses under each heading, addressing the required content points.
• Your writing should follow the format the template provided.
• As a reflective report, it is appropriate to write in the first person.
• Patient and staff confidentiality must always be maintained.
• A minimum of two relevant external sources must be used and correctly referenced using the Vancouver style.
   

The reflection template, marking rubric and further guidance will be available on the unit Moodle site. The marking rubric will specify the Pass requirements for each assessment criterion. 

This is a pass/fail assessment item. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, if you have not met all of the minimum criteria for achieving a score of 'Pass' on this assessment, you will receive a Fail grade for the unit.

The 72-hour grace period is applied to this assessment.

Academic integrity requirements

You must uphold the standards of academic integrity in this assessment. 

• Your submission must be your own original work. You must not consult with or receive assistance from any other person regarding the content or presentation of your submission.
• You may use writing feedback tools such as Grammarly to assist with clarity and structure of your submission.
• You may use AI tools to find external sources that are relevant to your learning and to provide summaries of those information sources. However, you must verify the accuracy of any summarised content before using it in your work.
• All external sources, including but not limited to those identified or summarised using AI tools must be properly acknowledged using correct in-text citations and a reference list.
• If you use content generated by AI in your assignment, you must paraphrase or quote it appropriately, use quotation marks for any directly copied text and provide full citations for all AI tools and sources used.
• You must not use AI tools to write full paragraphs or complete the submission on your behalf.
• You must not submit work that is not your own or that has been generated entirely or in part by AI. 
   

Any indications of possible breach of academic integrity will be investigated and formally reported.

AI scale for this task: Level 1 - AI-Assisted (Guided Collaboration). You may use Al to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any Al-generated content you use. Reflection is a process that you as an individual undertake to examine your own actions, thoughts and feelings so that you can better understand them in order to learn from them. This means that AI cannot be used to generate your reflection. To ensure there is transparency around the way that you have used AI, you will make an artificial intelligence declaration as part of your assessment submission. 

MRPBA Professional Capabilities and NSQHS Standards

This assessment task maps to the following MRPBA Professional Capabilities (2026) and NSQHS Standards (2021):

• MRPBA Domain 4, Key capability 1, 2
• NSQHS Standard 2

Part A is due by 8pm AEST Sunday at end of Week 3. Part B is due by 4pm AEST Tuesday 5th January 2027.

Assessments will be reviewed and feedback provided within two weeks of upload of each submission.

The Reflection and Action Plan submissions will be assessed for: 

• completeness of Part A and Part B of the submission listed in the Task Description (including providing a response in each area of the template to address the stated questions),
• creation of a goal that is relevant to your reflection and explicitly meets the SMART criteria, 
• depth of reflection, including relevance and practicality, regarding the achievement of your SMART goal,
• use a minimum of two external resources to inform your reflection, that are cited and referenced correctly,
• academic writing,
• adherence to AI usage as per Task Description
   

A detailed marking rubric will be posted on the unit Moodle site to specify the Pass requirements for each criterion listed above. This specifies the attributes for the three levels of scoring of criteria: 'meets requirements', 'marginally meets requirements' and 'does not meet requirements'.

The assessment will be marked in two stages. Part A is formative and will be assessed for its appropriateness of your SMART goal only. If the SMART goal is not deemed suitable by the unit coordinator, you will be provided feedback on your SMART goal and you will then have one week to respond to the feedback and resubmit your updated SMART goal.

Part B is summative, with all sections of the template to be completed in full. If you receive any score of 'does not meet the requirements' or 'marginally meets requirements' as per the marking rubric, you will be provided detailed feedback and guidance by the unit coordinator. You will then have one week to edit the submission and address the feedback to reach 'meets requirements' in all criteria on the re-attempt. Note that you will be permitted one re-attempt only for each of the reflection parts.

To obtain a score of Pass in this assessment item, you must: 

• submit both parts of the assessment by the stated due dates, and 
• attain 'meets requirements' scores in all criteria after a maximum of two attempts (initial submission and one resubmission for each reflection part).

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