Overview
During this clinical placement unit you will complete eleven weeks of full-time work integrated learning experience in a medical imaging clinical facility. You will provide patient care that supports the cultural, physical and psychosocial safety of your patients. You will further develop your skills in general radiography to perform competently in routine situations and to approach the level of competency for complex patients and in complex environments. You will perform routine computed tomography procedures competently and assist in complex procedures. You will attain competency in fluoroscopy in a range of environments. You will further develop your clinical reasoning and decision-making skills as you take on more independence in performance, operating within your scope of practice. You will perform in accordance with the code of conduct for regulated health professionals in Australia. You will further develop your clinical foundation knowledge of techniques, patient care requirements and safety considerations of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: MEDI13005 Medical Imaging Clinical Experience 2. This unit must have been completed within the past six months. Should this time limit be exceeded, the student must undergo a period of on-campus skills revision as determined by the Head of Course and successfully complete skills assessments to demonstrate currency of professional skills. Co-requisite: MEDI14001 Transition to Independent Practice
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 3 - 2026
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 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
| Assessment Task | Part Weighting (% of assessment) |
Assessment Security Level | Gen AI Guidance Levels |
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| 1. Placement Attendance (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| Placement Attendance (Professional Practice Placement) | 100% | High | No Gen AI Use |
| 2. Clinical Logbook (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| Clinical Logbook (Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books) | 100% | High | No Gen AI Use |
| 3. Performance Assessments (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| Performance Assessments (Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs)) | 100% | High | No Gen AI Use |
| 4. Global Assessment of Professional Attributes (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| Global Assessment of Professional Attributes (GAPA) (Practical Assessment) | 100% | High | No Gen AI Use |
| 5. Reflective Report (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| Interprofessional Practice Skill Development Reflective Report (Reflective Practice Assignment) | 100% | Low | AI-Assisted (Guided Collaboration) |
| 6. MRI Online Quiz (Pass/Fail ) | |||
| MRI Online Quiz (Online Quiz(zes)) | 100% | Low | No Gen AI Use |
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
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- 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 Coordinator observations and student emails
A substantial portion of students demonstrated Vancouver referencing style confusion and inconsistencies in their written reflection task.
Consider providing an additional resource as a targeted tips page in Moodle under the assessment task section to guide students about common mistakes encountered around citations and reference listing issues. This supports the existing MyCQU Referencing page however highlights examples of correct usage contextually.
Feedback from Unit coordinator observations
The targeted Wellness Check short survey was valuable in providing a platform for liaison, student support, and insights into student perspectives during their clinical placement.
Continue administering the targeted Wellness Check short survey in future iterations.
- Model the professional behavioural attributes of an entry-to-practice medical radiation practitioner, adhering to the code of conduct of the profession
- Integrate clinical reasoning and critical reflection into your daily medical imaging practice
- Evaluate images across a wide range of procedure types for technical and medico-legal sufficiency, for demonstration of urgent or unexpected findings and for formulation of image improvement strategies where indicated
- Practice in a manner that supports the physical, psychosocial and cultural safety of patients, others and yourself
- Perform general radiographic examinations at a competent level for non-complex patient presentations and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine examinations
- Perform contrast and non-contrast computed tomography at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Perform mobile radiography and fluoroscopy at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Integrate into the clinical medical imaging team, operating within your scope of practice.
- Discuss the techniques, patient care requirements and safety considerations of magnetic resonance imaging that are required for advanced beginner practice in the modality.
This unit maps to the following components of the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia's Professional Capabilities for Medical Radiation Practitioners (2026):
Domain 1: Medical Radiation Practitioner
- key capability 1, enabling components a - j
- key capability 2, enabling components a - c
- key capability 3, enabling components b, c, e
- key capability 4, enabling components a - c, e, f
- key capability 5, enabling component a
- key capability 6, enabling components b, c
- key capability 7, enabling components a - c
- key capability 8, enabling component a
- key capability 9, enabling components b, d(i-viii)
- key capability 10, enabling components a - g
Domain 1A: Diagnostic Radiographer
- key capability 1, enabling components a - g
- key capability 2, enabling components a - h
Domain 2: Professional and Ethical Practitioner
- key capability 1, enabling components a - d, f, h, i
- key capability 2, enabling components a - e
- key capability 3, enabling components a - d
- key capability 4, enabling component b
Domain 3: Communicator and Collaborator
- key capability 1, enabling components a, c - g
- key capability 2, enabling components a - e
- key capability 4, enabling components a - c
Domain 4: Lifelong Learner
- key capability 1, enabling components a, d
- key capability 2, enabling components a - d
Domain 5: Safety, Quality and Risk Management Practitioner
- key capability 1, enabling components a - e
- key capability 2, enabling components a - d, g
- key capability 3, enabling component a
- key capability 4, enabling components a, b, d - h
Domain 6: Leader and Steward
- key capability 1, enabling components a, c - e
- key capability 3, enabling components a, c
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Assessment 1
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Professional Practice Placement
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Assessment 2
(Pass/Fail )
Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books
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Assessment 3
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Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs)
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Assessment 4
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Practical Assessment
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Assessment 5
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Reflective Practice Assignment
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Assessment 6
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Online Quiz(zes)
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
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| 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 - First Nations Knowledges | |||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Vancouver
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
l.macdonald@cqu.edu.au
n.sciascia@cqu.edu.au
Week 1 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 11 Jan 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 1
Standard start date for MEDI14006 is Monday 11th January 2027.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Site orientation and induction
- Complete Week 1 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 2 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 18 Jan 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 2
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 2 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 3 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 25 Jan 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 3
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 3 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
- Complete first GAPA if moving to new site next week.
Week 4 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 01 Feb 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 4
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 4 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
- First GAPA to be completed this week and uploaded within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week.
Week 5 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 08 Feb 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 5
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 5 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 6 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 15 Feb 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 6
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 6 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
- Complete GAPA if moving to a new site next week.
Week 7 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 22 Feb 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 7
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 7 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 8 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 01 Mar 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 8
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 8 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
- Second GAPA to be completed this week and uploaded within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week.
Week 9 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 08 Mar 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 9
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Interprofessional Practice Skill Development Reflective Report Due Tuesday Week 9 11:59pm
- Complete Week 9 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 10 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 15 Mar 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 10
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 10 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
Week 11 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 22 Mar 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 11
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- Complete Week 11 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week (along with all forms for any performance assessments attempted this week).
- If attendance requirement has been met, final GAPA to be completed and uploaded within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week.
- All Performance assessments must be completed and submitted by the Tuesday of the final week of placement.
Week 12 of Clinical Placement
Begin Date: 29 Mar 2027Module/Topic
Clinical Placement Week 12
- Attendance required if any leave days have been taken and time has not been made up
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
- If you have taken any personal leave days, complete Week 12 logbook and submit within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week.
- Final GAPA to be completed in your final week and uploaded within 3 days of the last rostered shift for the week.
- All Performance assessments must be completed and submitted by the Tuesday of the final week of placement.
This unit is an 11-week full-time clinical (Work Integrated Learning or WIL) placement with 5 personal leave days. The standard start date for the placement is Monday 11th January 2027, which is Week 8 of the standard Term 3 calendar. Full attendance of this clinical placement is 11 weeks. Some students may have placement start/end dates that differ from the standard scheduled start/end dates of the placement.
You will have been allocated a specific clinical site (or sites) to attend for the placement. The clinical site/s will provide the range and quantity of imaging procedures to support your achievement of the unit learning outcomes and support your completion of clinical assessments.
You will be rostered by your clinical supervisor to attend at a variety of shift times and in a variety of work areas within the site/s. During this placement student rosters may not be standard Monday – Friday, but may include evening and night shifts, weekend work, compressed weekly rosters and scheduled leave days. Because of these factors, assessment due dates are expressed relative to the individual student’s roster and week of placement, not expressed in calendar days.
During placement, you will require regular computer and internet access, use of Microsoft office software and document image capture technology in order to complete assessment requirements. Clinical sites do not provide computer or internet access, so it is your responsibility to provide your own and ensure the regular access to the technology needed to upload your assessment files by the submission due dates.
The unit teaching team will monitor your clinical progress and provide regular feedback through review of your clinical assessments and weekly logbook. Your logbook will include a weekly placement quality check allowing you to check-in with your unit coordinator to notify them of any issues that may be arising throughout your placement. You are encouraged to use the Q&A and Discussion Forums for general queries and comments, or to contact the unit coordinator directly (by email) for any queries or concerns related to your placement.
The Unit Coordinator for this clinical placement unit is - Lauren MacDonald. The preferred method of contact is via email - l.macdonald@cqu.edu.au.
1. Placement Attendance ( Pass/Fail )
Professional Practice Placement
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 11 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 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 11 weeks 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 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 five allocated personal leave days during this placement. You are not required to take this leave, but you do have the flexibility to use the five personal leave days as a single week-long block or as a combination of single or multiple days. If you use any leave days in Weeks 1-11, then you will attend into your 12th scheduled week. If you have not used any leave in Weeks 1-11, then Week 11 is your final week 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 five 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 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 12 weeks of placement:
- if you have not met the 100% attendance requirement (11 weeks) 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 (11 weeks) AND you do not have documented justifiable grounds for your absence, you will score 'Fail' for this assessment item.
- Model the professional behavioural attributes of an entry-to-practice medical radiation practitioner, adhering to the code of conduct of the profession
- Perform general radiographic examinations at a competent level for non-complex patient presentations and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine examinations
- Perform contrast and non-contrast computed tomography at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Perform mobile radiography and fluoroscopy at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Integrate into the clinical medical imaging team, operating within your scope of practice.
2. Clinical Logbook ( Pass/Fail )
Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books
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 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 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.
Interprofessional practice experience
Whilst on clinical 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 your participated in a procedure or other learning activity involving a non-radiographer member of the healthcare team at your facility.
Additional logging requirements
In addition to noting 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.
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 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 submit 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 experience summary in at least three logbook submissions.
- Perform general radiographic examinations at a competent level for non-complex patient presentations and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine examinations
- Perform contrast and non-contrast computed tomography at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Perform mobile radiography and fluoroscopy at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Integrate into the clinical medical imaging team, operating within your scope of practice.
3. Performance Assessments ( Pass/Fail )
Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs)
This task is designed to further develop proficiency in general radiography, as well as develop your skills in CT procedures, mobile radiography, theatre fluoroscopy and/or non-theatre fluoroscopy procedures.
Planning for performance assessments:
It is your responsibility to communicate with your supervisor in a timely manner to ensure that you are rostered into the required work areas for the targeted quantity of time (~3 weeks for CT, ~4 weeks for mobiles/theatre/fluoroscopy and ~4 weeks for general radiography). It is also your responsibility to schedule the assessments during the weeks you are rostered into the appropriate work areas.
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 will 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 to you 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 or procedure. 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 should 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 your 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 procedures. You need to take initiative in starting the assessment process in a timely manner 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 procedures 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 a total of ten performance assessments as detailed below by procedure category.
General Radiography
You must pass six performance assessments in general radiography. Each of the six assessments must be completed on a different region of the body as categorised below:
- upper extremities
- lower extremities
- shoulder girdle
- pelvic girdle
- bony thorax
- spine
- chest
- abdomen
- craniofacial
- dental
Three of the six performance assessments in general radiography must be completed on complex patients. A complex patient is defined as - 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. This adaptation may be required because of factors such as the patient's current health status, mobility, stability, cognitive status, communication abilities and/or ability to cooperate. The type of adaptation may include, but is not limited to, the approach to communicating with the patient, modification of patient positioning, the selection of views/projections to be obtained, infection control protocols to be followed. Your assessor will categorise the patient involved in the performance assessment as either basic or complex. Paediatric patients are categorised as complex only if significant adaptation is required.
The other three assessments may be on any type of patient (basic or complex). Any basic assessments are limited to the following body regions:
- craniofacial
- dental
- spine
- pelvic girdle
- bony thorax
- shoulder girdle
Adaptation Imaging in Complex Environments
You must pass two performance assessments in adaptation imaging. These may be for mobile radiography, theatre fluoroscopy and/or non-theatre fluoroscopy.
Note that it is a course requirement that each student must complete at least one mobile radiography, one theatre fluoroscopy and one non-theatre fluoroscopy assessment in either MEDI13005 Medical Imaging Clinical Experience 2 or MEDI14006 Medical Imaging Clinical Experience 3. Thus, any of those three categories of assessments that you did not complete in your previous unit (MEDI13005) must be completed successfully during this unit.
Computed Tomography (CT)
You must pass two performance assessments in CT. Both CT performance assessments must be different examinations to those assessed in MEDI13005. One assessment must be contrast and the other can be either contrast or non-contrast.
- Head (including brain, facial bones or sinuses)
- Chest
- Abdomen/Pelvis
- Spine
- Extremities
For all performance assessments in all categories above, each must be completed on a separate patient presentation. It is not acceptable to image a single patient for several anatomical areas during one attendance and use those examinations for several performance assessments.
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 will 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 is Tuesday of the last week of placement. 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, 9, 10
MRPBA Domain 1A, Key capability 1, 2
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 4
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 Tuesday of the last week of placement.
Assessments will be reviewed and feedback provided within 5 working days of upload of each item.
Each performance assessment measures your ability to carry out the core tasks of an imaging procedure. These tasks are detailed on the assessment form. For each of the performance assessment forms - general radiography (basic and complex), CT, and mobile radiography, theatre fluoroscopy and non-theatre fluoroscopy, there are 'critical' and 'non-critical' tasks. The assessor will score your observed performance of each listed task using the 1 - 6 scale, below. The scale is based on quantity of assistance and correction you required to perform each task.
| Score | Descriptor |
| 1 | Unable to complete the task without radiographer intervention |
| 2 | Completed with 3+ assists OR completed with 1 - 2 assists but with 1 - 2 errors |
| 3 | Completed with 2 assists OR completed with 2 errors OR completed with 1 assist and 1 error |
| 4 | Completed with 1 assist OR completed with 1 error |
| 5 | Completed without error and without the need for assistance or reminder (at entry to practice level) |
| 6 | Completed independently and to a high standard (at experienced practitioner level) |
To achieve a 'Pass' score on a general radiography performance assessment, you must achieve the following scores:
- a minimum score of '5' in all critical tasks
- for BASIC patients: a maximum of two '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
- for COMPLEX patients: a maximum of three '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
To achieve a 'Pass' score on a CT performance assessment, you must achieve the following scores:
- a minimum score of '5' in all critical tasks
- for NON-CONTRAST CT examinations: the minimum required score is '4', with a maximum of two '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
- for CONTRAST CT examinations: the minimum required score is '4', with a maximum of three '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
To achieve a 'Pass' score on a mobile radiography, non-theatre fluoroscopy or theatre imaging performance assessment, you must achieve the following scores:
- a minimum score of '5' on all critical tasks
- for MOBILE radiography: the minimum required score is '4', with a maximum of three '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
- for NON-THEATRE FLUOROSCOPY: the minimum required score is '4', with a maximum of three '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
- for THEATRE imaging: the minimum required score is '4', with a maximum of two '4' scores and the rest must be '5' or better for non-critical tasks
To obtain a score of 'Pass' for this assessment, you must:
- meet the minimum requirements for each assessment, as detailed above in the Assessment Criteria,
- ensure that each of the ten performance assessments are completed on an appropriate procedure or body region 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.
- Model the professional behavioural attributes of an entry-to-practice medical radiation practitioner, adhering to the code of conduct of the profession
- Evaluate images across a wide range of procedure types for technical and medico-legal sufficiency, for demonstration of urgent or unexpected findings and for formulation of image improvement strategies where indicated
- Practice in a manner that supports the physical, psychosocial and cultural safety of patients, others and yourself
- Perform general radiographic examinations at a competent level for non-complex patient presentations and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine examinations
- Perform contrast and non-contrast computed tomography at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
- Perform mobile radiography and fluoroscopy at a competent level for routine procedures and using a level of assistance commensurate with the complexity of the patient presentation for non-routine procedures
4. Global Assessment of Professional Attributes ( Pass/Fail )
Practical Assessment
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 the site’s policies. As a student in a regulated healthcare profession in Australia, you are also required to be working towards consistent compliance with the Professions' 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 behaviour 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. 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 (UC) 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 three times during the placement. The first occurs at the end of Week 4 and the second occurs at the end of Week 8. The third and final GAPA assessment occurs in the final week of the placement. If you haven't used any of your assigned days of leave during your placement, the final GAPA will be at the end of Week 11, or if you have taken 1-5 days of leave then your final GAPA will be in Week 12.
In the instance where you have a split placement scheduled across two or more sites, a formative GAPA is to be completed in the last week of the block of the rotation at each of the sites (just before leaving the site to attend another site), and a GAPA should be completed at least once every four weeks.
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 two GAPAs are formative, meaning their 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 the 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 these initial GAPAs, 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. As this placement is the third of four in the course, you should also use this final assessment as formative, to help inform your plans for improvement that you can implement in your fourth and final placement.
Self-assessment:
For all GAPAs, prior to meeting with your supervisor, you must also use the assessment tool to self-assess your behaviours. You must 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 4, Key capability 1, 2
- MRPBA Domain 5, Key capability 1, 2, 3, 4
- MRPBA Domain 6, Key capability 1, 3
First GAPA must be completed by end of Week 4, second at the end of Week 8, and third completed in the final week 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.
| Score | Descriptor |
| NA | No opportunity or insufficient opportunity to assess |
| 1 | Never or hardly ever demonstrated (<10%) despite opportunities to do so |
| 2 | Demonstrated infrequently, less than half of the time (<50%) |
| 3 | Demonstrated about half of the time (just as likely to happen as not) |
| 4 | Demonstrated much of the time, but with some lapses |
| 5 | Demonstrated consistently (nearly always, at the level expected of a newly qualified practitioner < 1 month) |
| 6 | Demonstrated consistently and to a high level (at the level expected of an experienced practitioner) |
The minimum required scores for each sections non-critical behaviours and attributes are:
Section 1: Initiative and Communication
- Minimum score of '4'
- Maximum of four scores of '4'
Section 2: Responsibility and Demeanour
- Minimum score of '5'
Section 3: Overall Technical Knowledge and Skill
- Minimum of '5' for the use of equipment
- Minimum of '4' for other categories
- Maximum of two scores of '4'
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.
- Model the professional behavioural attributes of an entry-to-practice medical radiation practitioner, adhering to the code of conduct of the profession
- Integrate clinical reasoning and critical reflection into your daily medical imaging practice
- Evaluate images across a wide range of procedure types for technical and medico-legal sufficiency, for demonstration of urgent or unexpected findings and for formulation of image improvement strategies where indicated
- Practice in a manner that supports the physical, psychosocial and cultural safety of patients, others and yourself
- Integrate into the clinical medical imaging team, operating within your scope of practice.
5. Reflective Report ( Pass/Fail )
Reflective Practice Assignment
Reflection on your past experiences and your professional development should be an iterative process where you review, analyse, plan and implement in each cycle with the goal of continuous professional development.
As a Year 4 student you have already experienced many classroom and clinical situations of learning about, from and/or with other health professionals – this is interprofessional education (IPE). You are also experiencing interprofessional practice (IPP) where you participate in clinical activities within multidisciplinary teams. Your IPE supports your development of IPP competence.
For this assessment activity, your task has three parts:
1. You will evaluate your current level of performance relative to our course’s six IPP competencies for graduates
2. You will identify two IPE experiences across your years of study and for each, reflect on how it has impacted your IPP competency development
3. You will target one of the IPP competencies for further development. For that selected competency you will develop a SMART goal and associated action plan to enhance your future capability.
You will be provided a response template to structure your reflective report.
As for any reflective report, you are expected to use relevant and current literature to inform your reflection.
As this is a pass/fail assessment task, there is no late penalty available for this task. It must be submitted by the due date unless you have an approved extension.
AI Guidance Level and DEC Alignment for this task: 1 AI-Assisted (Guided Collaboration). GenAI may only be used for basic support only (e.g. brainstorming, initial drafting, simple research assistance, or basic idea generation). You must critically evaluate and modify any AI-generated content you use.
MRPBA Professional Capabilities and NSQHS Standards
This assessment task maps to the following MRPBA Professional Capabilities (2026) and NSQHS Standards (2021):
- MRPBA Domain 3, Key capability 2
- NSQHS Standard 2
Your reflective report is due Tuesday Week 9 of your clinical placement by 11:59pm AEST.
Assessments will be reviewed and feedback provided within two weeks of upload of each submission.
Your submission will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Completeness in addressing each item on the template
- Selection and analysis of relevant IPE experiences
- Reflection on your development
- Formulation of relevant IPP goal that meets SMART criteria
- Use of external sources to inform your reflection
- Academic writing
- Documentation of AI use in development of the report
This is a pass/fail assessment item. A rubric will be provided to indicate the minimum requirements for a pass for each assessment criterion. In the event that your submission does not meet minimum requirements for all criteria, you will be provided detailed feedback and have one week to address the feedback and resubmit. Your final submission must meet the minimum requirements in all criteria in order to pass this assessment task.
To obtain a Pass score in this assessment task you must:
- Submit all parts of the assessment by the stated due date
- Attain ‘meets requirements’ scores in all criteria after a maximum of two attempts (initial submission and one re-submission)
- Integrate clinical reasoning and critical reflection into your daily medical imaging practice
- Practice in a manner that supports the physical, psychosocial and cultural safety of patients, others and yourself
6. MRI Online Quiz ( Pass/Fail )
Online Quiz(zes)
As Year 4 Medical Imaging students, you are becoming integrated into your clinical work team and are progressively gaining independence in your practice. That requires you to have a working knowledge of safe practice and to have some familiarity with standard processes in imaging areas beyond radiography, fluoroscopy and computed tomography. To that end, you will complete a series of learning activities on the topic of clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) including safety, clinical indications, patient preparation, patient positioning, MRI imaging protocols and sequences, anatomy and image appearances. This will prepare you to participate safely and effectively in the workflow of the MRI area in your final clinical placement unit.
This assessment task is an online quiz on MRI clinical practice. You may attempt the quiz as often as you need within the availability period in order to achieve the required minimum score of 80%. Your highest score of all your attempts will be used to determine your grade.
This is a pass/fail assessment item. In the absence of an approved assessment extension, if you have not met 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 - MRI, Key capability 1
Completion of the quiz is due by 11pm AEST Friday of your final scheduled day of placement for the unit.
Your quiz score will be released immediately after you submit.
Your quiz responses will be scored on factual correctness, completeness relative to what the question asked and correct use of technical terminology.
To obtain a score of 'Pass' for this assessment, you must:
- attain a quiz score of at least 80% in one of your attempts, and
- complete the quiz by the due date.
- Discuss the techniques, patient care requirements and safety considerations of magnetic resonance imaging that are required for advanced beginner practice in the modality.
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?