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Overview
This unit advances your study of obstetric ultrasound from MEDS13001 to explore the sonographic assessment of normal and pathological third trimester obstetric cases. You will study the sonographic appearance, scanning techniques, management and pathological complications associated with third trimester scans as well as become familiar with investigations and interventions relevant to the management of post partum patients and prenatal anomalies of the fetus. You will also investigate sonographic studies relating to a paediatric patient. Common paediatric anomalies as well as inherent congenital diseases will be reviewed to include their sonographic appearance, safe scanning techniques, prognosis and treatment. Clinical scenarios/case studies are used to engage you in the sonographic decision-making process for both the third trimester scan and the paediatric patient.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: MEDS13001 Obstetric and Breast Ultrasound andMEDS12007 Medical Sonography Clinical Unit 1
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2020
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
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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 Student feedback
Students valued the worked examples of clinical situations and the clarifiaction of important content in the tutorials.
Continue to include relevant case studies in the tutorials to highlight content and allow for a greater depth of understanding.
Feedback from Student feedback
Students felt the timing for the online test was too short and was difficult as they had to type their responses.
Consider implementing a standard exam in 2020 to allow a longer timed exam under invigilated conditions which will allow students to write answers that can demonstrate their depth of understanding.
- Describe safe ultrasound assessment of the fetus in late pregnancy, maternal post partum pelvis and the paediatric patient
- Differentiate the aetiology, ultrasound appearance and Doppler haemodynamics of abnormalities in third trimester pregnancies and post partum patients
- Analyse normal and abnormal paediatric ultrasound findings with reference to anatomy, clinical presentation, sonographic appearance, and aetiology
- Critically evaluate and analyse clinical scenarios to communicate a differential diagnosis which includes ethical and management considerations.
Australasian Sonography Association Competency Standards for the Entry Level Sonographer Units: 1-5, 6, 10, 12
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
| 2 - Online Test - 60% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 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 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Presentation and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Online Test - 60% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Smart phone video access or desktop/laptop webcam with recording capabilities
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Vancouver
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
p.kinnane@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
- Imaging the obese pregnant patient
- The post partum uterus
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Provided lecture content and readings
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- Interventional ultrasound in pregnancy and gynaecology
- Placental disorders
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- Growth disturbances in the fetus
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- Doppler use in obstetrics
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- Third trimester scan
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- No new content
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- Maternal complications
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- Introduction to paediatric ultrasound
- Neonatal head
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- Paediatric spine
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Paediatric hip
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Written assessment and recorded presentation Due: Week 9 Wednesday (16 Sept 2020) 4:00 pm AEST
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- Paediatric renal tract and adrenals
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- Paediatric gastro intestinal tract
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- No new content
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My name is Paula Kinnane and I am the unit co-ordinator for MEDS13009. Following on from a background in radiography, I have been a qualified sonographer for 20 years and worked in a number of environments (both specialised and general) in both public and private settings. Since 2006, I have been a specialist sonographer in women's and newborn imaging where I performed both routine and tertiary scans for gynaecological, breast and obstetrics imaging, including multiple pregnancies and fetal echocardiography. I have been employed at CQU since 2015. I am involved in various voluntary roles with the Australasian Sonographer's Association (ASA) and present at many conferences. I was recently awarded an Associate Fellowship by the ASA, in recognition of my achievements and service to the profession.
I am based on Brisbane campus and my contact details are:
email- p.kinnane@cqu.edu.au
Ph- 07 3023 4146
I am usually very responsive by email (during business hours) and can coordinate meetings if necessary.
Whilst there is no set textbook for this unit, you will find textbook resources on your e-reading list found on Moodle. Some other textbooks which may be useful to refer to and supplement your lectures include:
RUMACK Diagnostic Ultrasound 2 Vol set ISBN:9780323401715
HAGEN-ANSERT Diagnostic Sonography ISBN: 9780323353755
As this is a 6 credit point unit, you are expected to spend on average 12.5 hours each week on study activities for this unit. This time includes:
- Watching recorded lectures and attending tutorials
- Creating study notes to meet weekly learning objectives using lectures and readings
- Researching and working on your assessment
- Completing formative and mock test questions.
Attendance at tutorials is recommended (recordings of these will be made available on Moodle). Discussions about unit content, assessment and the online test are provided in the tutorials. Tutorial schedule is available on Moodle.
1 Presentation and Written Assessment
Outline:
This written and recorded assessment will examine the sonographers’ role in the detection and communication of important conditions in pregnancy and paediatrics.
This assessment item is designed to test your communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills with respect to literature searches, information collation and editing, image review, academic writing and referencing pertaining to your chosen condition.
Part A:Written
Your assessment task is to source, collate and edit relevant information pertaining to your choice of one
(1) topic from the following:
- Preeclampsia in pregnancy, or
- Hepatoblastoma in the paediatric patient
Your discussion topics will depend on your chosen topic, but the following may help guide you:
- Background/overview e.g. Occurrence, risk factors, aetiology and/or pathogenesis
- Important clinical information e.g. relevant history and/or clinical tests
- Characteristic sonographic features
- How to sonographically evaluate these features and what else to look for
- Compare with at least one differential diagnosis
- Further investigations and clinical management options
All submissions must be submitted as a Microsoft word document and must be uploaded through Turnitin.
Maximum word limit is 1500 words (+/- 10 %). Excludes tables, figures and references
Max file size must not exceed 100MB.
Part B: Recorded presentation
You will prepare a short video presentation (up to 4 mins in length) on your chosen anomaly that will:
- Effectively communicate using an oral presentation details of your chosen anomaly and its key specific sonographic features. The format should take the form of the ISBAR (Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, Report/Recommendations) technique where you are presenting your findings to the consultant radiologist having completed your scan
- This component entails producing a video recording utilising a smart phone, laptop or tablet device
- This recording is to be uploaded to YouTube. The link to your YouTube recording is to be loaded in the comment section of your submission.
- PowerPoint slides, images and worksheets are not required
Week 9 Wednesday (16 Sept 2020) 4:00 pm AEST
Week 11 Monday (28 Sept 2020)
Part A: Written
- Construct a paper to include an introduction, aim, body (with headings and subheadings) and a conclusion as minimum requirements. The submission should have a clear structure and defined purpose. It must be free of grammatical errors and reflect an appropriate level of critical analysis with appropriate use of clinical and scientific terminology
- Evaluate current information and clinical consensus around the given topic by demonstrating thorough, appropriate, and up to date literature searches to support the information that you provide
- Describe the sonographic appearance and highlight the relevance with the use of images, diagrams and/or tables to support the demonstration of your understanding of the sonographers' role in the diagnosis and management of your condition
A reference list should be provided at the end of the submission in the correct format. Referencing must be done using Vancouver style with a minimum of 10 scientific peer reviewed references. You should consistently use in text citations to support your analysis and discussion.
Part B: Recorded presentation
- Demonstrate creativity and decision making skills to appropriately construct a presentation that effectively communicates the pertinent information required using the ISBAR technique
- Determine optimal video and audio settings so you are clearly visible, well heard and that the background/location is appropriate
- Analyse and highlight content details that are relevant based on the literature review used in your written component
- Interpret and select any additional information that will enhance your chosen condition scenario
- Discern an effective and appropriate methodology as to the format your presentation will take
- Display your understanding of the sonographer's role within this clinical setting scenario by constructing and delivering a presentation that is clinically relevant and follows ISBAR technique in a timely manner
For more detailed marking criteria please see the marking rubric on the Moodle site.
- Describe safe ultrasound assessment of the fetus in late pregnancy, maternal post partum pelvis and the paediatric patient
- Differentiate the aetiology, ultrasound appearance and Doppler haemodynamics of abnormalities in third trimester pregnancies and post partum patients
- Analyse normal and abnormal paediatric ultrasound findings with reference to anatomy, clinical presentation, sonographic appearance, and aetiology
- Critically evaluate and analyse clinical scenarios to communicate a differential diagnosis which includes ethical and management considerations.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Online Test
Each health profession possesses a body of knowledge, the fundamentals of which must be learnt and understood. The sonography profession has selected these concepts as relevant to your future scope of practice and you will build upon them in your future clinical capacity. You will complete an online test to assess your understanding of the concepts delivered in MEDS13009. The test can be accessed through the assessment tab on Moodle.
- It will comprise 10 questions which will require written answers. Students will need to note opening and closing times to complete the exam during this time period.
- The test will be open for 120 mins (allowing 12 minutes per question) and only ONE attempt is allowed. Once started, the test cannot be paused or restarted.
- As the test is online and open book, you will find it useful if you have produced your own notes and are familiar with the unit information. You cannot afford to use time searching for information (either in texts, notes or online) to assist you in providing your answer.
- All unit content for MEDS13009 may be examined.
- Questions will be drawn from a pool of questions to allow tests to be different for each student.
This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. As with all other university assessment, colluding with other students on non group work tasks is considered academic misconduct, and may lead to action being taken. Inserting answers from other websites at the time of the online test without referencing the source is considered plagiarism.
Online test date and time will be advised once scheduled.
You will be allocated a 120 minute time period to complete the test.
Once started, the test cannot be paused, stopped or re-started. Once you have completed the test, it cannot be re-taken.
Students will need to provide medium length typed responses to 10 online questions within the 2 hour time period.
Film viewing questions may be included and you are required to be familiar with normal and pathological sonographic imaging of the areas discussed in MEDS13009.
Each question is worth 10 marks (giving a max total of 100 marks available)
Responses will be assessed according to:
- Use of appropriate terminology and descriptors as well as grammar, spelling, relevance of response and competence in addressing all elements of the question
- The students ability to appropriately interpret sonographic images/graphs/tables and then to succinctly compose an appropriate response based on their learning from the unit
- Describe safe ultrasound assessment of the fetus in late pregnancy, maternal post partum pelvis and the paediatric patient
- Differentiate the aetiology, ultrasound appearance and Doppler haemodynamics of abnormalities in third trimester pregnancies and post partum patients
- Analyse normal and abnormal paediatric ultrasound findings with reference to anatomy, clinical presentation, sonographic appearance, and aetiology
- Critically evaluate and analyse clinical scenarios to communicate a differential diagnosis which includes ethical and management considerations.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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