CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Each Module (Lower Extremity Veins for DVT, Carotid artery Doppler, and Transvaginal female pelvis) will have skills tests associated with it as follows:

• Part A, Module 1 TUESDAY week 3
• Part A, Module 2 TUESDAY week 7
• Part A, Module 3 TUESDAY week 11
• Part B, OSCE (all Modules) TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY week 12

PART A

The purpose of the Part A skills tests in weeks 3, 7 and 11 is to provide you an opportunity to experience full testing conditions. In addition, your interim skill level will be assessed to determine whether you are performing at the required interim skill level, and feedback will be provided throughout the term at each test, which can allow you to reflect and improve along the way. You will be required to complete sonographic examinations under an appropriate time limit, as per the respective imaging protocol, including professional (pre-scan, during, and post-scan) and technical (scanning) requirements that are discussed in the unit lab manual, instructed labs, lectures, and tutorials. These are outlined as follows:

Professional (pre-scan, during, and post-scan) requirements:

• Apply patient care techniques and effective communication to obtain relevant patient history, informed consent, and to direct ‘patients’ accordingly
• Apply professionalism in dealing with 'patients', colleagues, equipment, and the scanning setting

Technical (scanning) requirements:

• Students are required to perform routine sonographic scanning techniques, image optimisation, and acquisition, in a reasonable time period to advanced beginner level. A scanning time limit of 30 minutes is applied to Modules 1 & 2, and 25 minutes to Module 3 assessments.

Clinical (knowledge) requirements:

• Assessors will ask questions of the students during the sonographic examination as needed to clarify any technical aspects of the examination or to test anatomical or pathological knowledge as relevant to the examination.

Students will be assessed using the ‘assessment of readiness for clinical’ (ARC) tool, which is available on the unit Moodle site.

Part A assessments fulfill experiential and feedback purposes, as well as being recorded and used for summative purposes in the event that you do not successfully pass Part B, OSCE (all Modules) in week 12, which is discussed further below. If Part B is successfully passed, the results of Part A will not be required.

If, after the Part B assessment, one or more of the Part A assessments are required to determine your final grade, the following information will apply:

To pass Part A assessment/s, the clinical, professional and technical components must be graded as a ‘pass’. All critical requirements (bolded items) in the professional section must receive full marks.

All Part A assessments will initially be marked live, and feedback provided to students. In the event that a final grade rests on Part A results, consensus moderation will be used to formally mark the Part A assessment following week 12. Moderators will be allocated from another campus and will use video recordings of your performance which provides a more robust marking process than the live assessment. One grade will be allocated at the completion of all marking and moderating and you will receive the final ARC tool including the additional moderator's comments as feedback.

Please carefully review the assessment information and ARC tool posted on the unit Moodle site.

PART B

The purpose of Part B OSCE assessment in week 12 is to determine your final grade with a targeted assessment covering all Modules. You will be assessed on professional, technical and clinical requirements as per Part A. The assessor will instruct you to perform targeted portions of examinations in Part B, rather than complete examinations. You will be required to perform THREE targeted portions per Module with a time limit of 15 minutes per Module.

All assessments will initially be marked live, and consensus moderation will be used for any result that is not a clear pass (>85%) or a clear fail (<50%). Moderators will be allocated from another campus and will use video recordings of your performance which provides a more robust marking process than the live assessment. One grade will be allocated at the completion of all marking and moderating and you will receive the final ARC tool as feedback.

This is a pass/fail assessment.

The criteria to receive a ‘Pass’ in Part B (and the entire assessment item) are as follows:

You must achieve at least 70% of available marks in the clinical, technical and professional components and all critical requirements (bolded points) in the professional component must be achieved in EACH Module component in order to pass the assessment. There is only ONE attempt per student.

If Part B is passed outright, Part A interim results will not be moderated or kept on permanent record, and you will pass the assessment item. 

Re-evaluation options:

In the event that, following consensus moderation, a student does not achieve the minimum required to pass one or more Modules in Part B, the Part A performance of that Module will be taken into consideration. If, after consensus moderation of the relevant Part A assessment, the student achieved at least 70% of available marks in the clinical, technical and professional components and all critical requirements (bolded points) in the professional component, the student will pass that Module. If the Part A assessment is graded as a fail, the Module, assessment item, and subsequently the unit, will be failed.

Please be aware that all assessments will be video recorded. Videos may be viewed by CQU sonography staff and tutors for the purposes of marking and moderation of assessments, and may be required to be viewed by other CQU staff in the event of a student requesting either a Review of Grade or an Appeal of Grade. The videos will not be released to students for review.

This assessment will require you to complete the documentation set forth in your Lab Manual. This includes documents forming Part A - Lab Induction, and documents forming Part B - Reflection on feedback through the term, as follows:

PART A - INDUCTION

• Workplace Health and Safety Induction
• Lab Agreement
• Consent Form - Sonographic Examination for Teaching Purposes

PART B - REFLECTION

• Formative feedback forms from each lab session (5 documents)
• Mock and Part A ARC tools for each module (6 documents)
• Self reflection for each module
• Lab Attendance Record

Uploaded documentation is in pdf format. Please ensure your surname, first name, student number, and name of what you are uploading is used in that order in the title of the document, separated by either underscores or single spaces. Any other order variation or information is incorrect so please take note of this.

i.e. Chester_Deanne_s0123456_lab_agreement.pdf or Chester Deanne s0123456 lab agreement.pdf.

The purpose of this assessment is to prepare you for the professionalism and documentation responsibilities you will have on clinical placement, as well as to develop self-reflection skills by setting weekly goals and following-up on your progress. When working clinically, patients and physicians rely on quick, efficient, and complete documentation to issue treatment. Failure to complete paperwork correctly in the clinical environment may have dire consequences to patient management. Hence, in the lab, non-completed or incorrectly completed paperwork will attract a LiP point, and one opportunity to correct the error. Repeated errors will incur a fail of the assessment item. 

This assessment also ties in with Assessment 4 - Professional Behaviour Assessment. You are required to complete your Formative Feedback Forms before leaving at the end of each lab (as you would be required to complete documentation for each patient's scan before the end of a clinical shift), and to have it signed off by your tutor. You must upload all required documentation for this assessment by the due date and time to obtain a 'pass'. If you do not have all lab days signed off on your Lab Attendance, you will need to write in the reason. Note that a LiP point may apply if documentation has not been signed off correctly. 

This is a pass/fail assessment task in a pass/fail unit - a fail grade for any component of a pass/fail assessment task will result in a fail grade for the assessment task, and subsequently the entire unit.

To pass this assessment item you must:

• complete all paperwork accurately and on time
• save and upload in the format specified
• submit by the due date and time specified

Documentation in the clinical environment must be correctly issued, otherwise there can be dire consequences for patient and legal ramifications for the sonographer. Hence, in the lab, non-completed or incorrectly completed paperwork will attract a LiP point (per instance), and repeated errors will incur a fail of the assessment item. As sonographers, it is important for you to both understand and comply with requirements regarding paperwork and documentation.

• There are FOUR quizzes for this unit which are each available to you for 32 hours. 
• The content of quizzes 1-3 will be sonographic anatomy, protocol and technique for the respective module, and may include expected prior knowledge relevant to that module, asked in a multiple choice format. The purpose of these quizzes is to ensure preparation prior to Assessment 1 - Part A in each scanning module. Quizzes 1-3 are each worth 20% of this assessment task grade.
• Quiz 4 is an end of term quiz and covers all modules, asked in a short answer format, designed to test your critical thinking and clinical judgement. Quiz 4 is worth 40% of this assessment task grade.
• Students must achieve a cumulative score of 70% across the four quizzes to pass this assessment
• This is an open book quiz, so you have the opportunity to consult your notes, lecture slides, text books, and Moodle page. However, this assessment is to be undertaken as an individual.
• You are allowed ONE attempt at each quiz and once you have started the quiz, it cannot be paused or restarted.
• Time limit for Quizzes 1-3 is 20 minutes. Once the time limit is reached any open questions will be automatically submitted. 
• Time limit for Quiz 4 is 40 minutes. Once the time limit is reached any open questions will be automatically submitted. 
• These assessment tasks must be completed on or before the due dates listed.
• No late submissions are permitted after each quiz has closed so please ensure adequate time for completion, with additional time for computer mishaps. If you have computer / quiz access difficulties, you need to contact TaSAC as soon as possible for assistance, and the unit coordinator (after you've contacted TaSAC) if you cannot complete the quiz in the allocated time before the end of the quiz (5PM AEST / 3PM AWST).
• In the event that you are unable to complete the quiz in the allocated time and have suitable medical documentation for exceptional circumstances, you need to notify the unit coordinator or apply online for an extension before the end of the quiz to be granted an extension to the quiz time.
• In the absence of an approved extension, or documented IT issues, there will be no opportunity to complete a quiz after it has closed.

Quiz weeks, topics (weightings) are as follows:

WEEK 2      Module 1         Deep Venous Thrombosis examination (20%)

WEEK 6      Module 2         Carotid Doppler examination (20%)

WEEK 10    Module 3         Transvaginal Female Pelvis examination (20%)

WEEK 11    Modules 1-3     End of term quiz (40%)

Quizzes 1-3: Multiple choice questions will either be correct or incorrect and tabulated by the unit's online Moodle system.

Quiz 4: Short answer questions will be marked by the Unit Coordinator.

Students will receive their score for each quiz once all students have completed that quiz.

Students must achieve a cumulative score of 70% across the four quizzes to pass this assessment.

As per Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework), Section 5, Procedure - Assessment Management, item 5.54 "For some assessments, it may not be appropriate to apply a late penalty. Such assessments will receive a mark of zero if not completed by or on the specified date. Examples are: b) online quizzes where answers are released to students on completion, .... e) pass/fail assessment tasks". In the absence of an approved extension, there will be no opportunity to complete a quiz after it has closed. 

This is an open book quiz, so you have the opportunity to consult your notes, lecture slides, text books, and Moodle page. However, this assessment is to be undertaken as an individual, and is not approved as group work. As per the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure, Section 3.25 "If evidence shows that plagiarism, collusion, cheating or academic misconduct of any kind has occurred, the conduct will be considered a breach of academic integrity." Colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct, and will be reported to the Academic Integrity Unit. 

Professionalism and professional behaviour are critical parts of any medically aligned profession, and encompass the manner in which we treat our colleagues, patients, and the professional settings and equipment provided to us. The purpose of this assessment is to ensure that students from the Medical Sonography course are well-equipped to embody the high standards of professionalism that are expected from CQUniversity students while on their upcoming clinical placements, and as graduate sonographers in their future careers. This assessment will require you to treat each of your lab sessions as a scheduled "work shift" and to exhibit professional attitudes to ensure you are prepared to enter the work force with the skills required to provide safe and professional patient care. As such, this assessment is based on continuous and ongoing assessment of student application and attendance during labs and throughout the term.

Note: this extends to all behaviour exhibited by you during your time studying this unit, up until the end of exam week. This includes participation in forums and online tutorials, labs, social media etiquette, use of Google Docs, phone calls, attitude towards peers and staff, and all official correspondence with university staff, peers, and community.

This is a pass/fail assessment. This assessment is marked using the Professional Behaviour Assessment (PBA) rubric and incorporates LiPs (lapses in professionalism). 

All interactions with staff and peers pertaining to this unit will be treated as a replica of the clinical work environment. You will be expected to demonstrate all of the professional behaviour that will be expected of you in a formal work environment. LiPs can be issued in three different categories:

1. Professional behaviour towards colleagues and staff,
2. Professional behaviour towards patients, and
3. Professional behaviour towards professional settings and equipment.

Expected behaviour and its relevance to the clinical environment is listed under the Assessment 4: Professional Behaviour Assessment Description on the unit Moodle site. It is very important that you familiarise yourself with the CODE OF CONDUCT in the Lab Manual as well as the ASAR CODE OF CONDUCT and the CQU CODE OF CONDUCT. All of these documents are posted on the unit Moodle site for your information.

If unprofessional attitude or behaviour is reported by fellow classmates and not witnessed by a staff member, a written warning detailing the allegations will be issued to the student, and the student's response documented. If further evidence of an on-going unprofessional behaviour surfaces, then a LiP may be issued. 

Up to THREE LiPs can be issued before the assessment is graded as a FAIL. However, if any exhibited attitude or behaviour is deemed as unsafe or inappropriate for clinical practice, the professional behaviour assessment will be graded as a FAIL at the discretion of the unit coordinator.

There is a COMPULSORY Zoom session on MONDAY 8 MAR 2021 10.30AM AEST / 11.30AM AEDT / 8.30AM AWST regarding requirements for this assessment task. Failure to attend will incur a Lapse in Professionalism point.

This is a pass/fail assessment.

To pass this unit, the minimum mark for the BPA is 12/15 (80%) and thus you can receive a maximum of three LiPs across all descriptors. Documents must also be uploaded in the correct format by the due date specified for a pass. If a fourth LiP is issued, the maximum mark would be 11/15 and the assessment will be graded as a fail. As this is a pass/fail unit, a pass in all assessment items is required to pass this unit.

In the event that a LiP point is accrued, it will be discussed between the student and one of the teaching team. Written documentation explaining the reason for the issued LiP will be signed by the on-site lecturer or the unit coordinator, and sent to the student via email.