CQUniversity Unit Profile.

The purpose of the oral assessment is to assess your understanding of content from Week 1. You will be required to demonstrate an understanding of Doppler and haemodynamic principles and application of these when interpreting sonographic Doppler images of arteries and veins. You will also be required to identify the cause of artefacts on duplex Doppler images and explain both how this can affect the patient results and how to correct these.

Oral assessments will be held via Zoom. These are individual sessions only; you are required to be alone during the assessment and may be asked to provide evidence of this with your camera in real time. You will be required to have your camera and microphone on at all times, have your face clearly visible, and answer questions unassisted. All oral assessments will be recorded. Examples of oral assessments are available on the unit Moodle page.

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

The assessment will take around 20-30 minutes and once started, cannot be paused or restarted, so please ensure you are prepared beforehand. If you are unwell, please let the unit coordinator know before your oral assessment begins.

This assessment task is to be undertaken as an individual. As per the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure document (available on the unit Moodle site), section 3.13, student academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to: collision, cheating, and contract cheating, including file sharing. Examples of each of these are found within the document in sections 3.17 through to and including 3.21. Cheating and colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct and will be reported to the Academic Integrity Unit.

Students are permitted to use Generative AI for this assessment in the following ways:

Level 1 No AI—You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

Oral assessments will be scheduled in Week 4 (Group 1) or Week 9 (Group 2).

Results will be released once all students within the group have completed the assessment. Feedback documents will be released once all students have completed the assessment.

During the assessment, you will be shown sonographic images and interactive videos. You will be required to adjust settings and indicators, and answer specific questions related to these. This may include being asked to identify the presence or absence of artefacts, how specific artefacts may affect the patient’s results, and how this could be corrected

This assessment makes up 40% of the unit total and has a pass mark of 50%. In the event of the pass mark not being achieved, a supplementary assessment (SA) may be available if all criteria are met according to the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework; available on the unit Moodle page). All SAs for this assessment item will include content from week 1 and will be held after Certification of Grades.

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No submission method provided.

In this on campus, supervised test, you will be demonstrating your critical thinking skills to answer questions. This may include:

• using information from clinical and sonographic image presentations to arrive at diagnoses;
• using a diagnosis and working backwards to describe the expected sonographic presentation;
• other combinations of clinical presentation, laboratory data, sonographic presentation, and diagnoses; and
• extending the sonography examination if appropriate.

To do this, you will evaluate clinical case studies, images, and clinical presentation information. Questions will be in the format of short answer, medium length answer, and various types of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Questions and images may include content from weeks 2 to 6 inclusive.

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

This 2-hour on campus, supervised test must be completed on your campus of enrolment during Week 13—computer lab allocations will be available in week 12. No late submissions are permitted after the test has closed, so please arrive 15 minutes early to your assigned computer lab to prepare and ensure you receive the full amount of available time to complete the test. At the test closing time, all attempts will be automatically submitted. You are allowed ONE attempt at the online test and once started, the test cannot be paused or restarted, so please ensure you are prepared beforehand. If you are sick or unable to complete the assessment task before the end of the test due to exceptional circumstances (see policy on Moodle page), please contact the unit coordinator or notify your room supervisor before the end of the test. Note: Students who are on placement at the time of the test may request to have their in-class test deferred, to be rescheduled by the unit coordinator.

This assessment task is to be undertaken as an individual. As per the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure document (available on the unit Moodle site), section 3.13, student academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to: collision, cheating, and contract cheating, including file sharing. Examples of each of these are found within the document in sections 3.17 through to and including 3.21. Cheating and colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct and will be reported to the Academic Integrity Unit.

Students are permitted to use Generative AI for this assessment in the following ways:

Level 1 No AI—You must not use AI at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

Exam Week Tuesday (16 Feb 2027) 11:45 pm AEST

Information regarding the time of in-class test as well as on campus computer lab allocations will be provided to students once known.

Results will be released within 2 weeks or once all students have completed the test, whichever is the latter.

You will be assessed on your critical thinking ability by evaluating clinical information including sonographic images, clinical presentation information, sonographic findings, and how to extend your sonography examination. Answers to non-MCQ questions are required to align with content within this unit, including but not limited to using the same terminology used in lectures, tutorials, and on the unit Moodle page. Answers require critical thinking and may include:

• explaining what has been demonstrated in sonographic images using appropriate terminology, including anatomical features, differential diagnoses or a provisional diagnosis, and how to extend the ultrasound examination; and
• working backward to provide possible clinical presentations of patients with those specific images.

This assessment makes up 60% of the unit total and has a pass mark of 50%. In the event of the pass mark not being achieved, a supplementary assessment (SA) may be available if all criteria are met according to the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework; available on the unit Moodle page). All SAs for this assessment item will include content from weeks 2 to 6 inclusive (equivalent to weeks 7 to 11 for Group 2 students) and will be held after Certification of Grades.

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