• An online test will be conducted to assess your understanding of the content in this unit.
• This is one of the two assessments (the second being combined attendance at the compulsory Residential School plus submission of Lab Manual) that must be passed to pass the unit overall.
• The test will be online and must be accessed through the 'assessment tab' on Moodle and will comprise of 40 questions, 2 or 4 marks per question (100 marks in total).
• Questions will be composed of multiple components, multiple choice, short answer, image interpretation, or a longer answer format.
• As the test is online and open book, you will find it useful to have produced your own notes from the lectures.
• Questions will be randomised from a question bank to allow tests to be different for each student.
• Image viewing questions may be included.
• Questions may be drawn from any content presented up to and including week 12, including but not limited to lectures, content from tutorials, the lab manual, and additional reading.
  
• The assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. As with all other university assessments, colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct.
• The test will be open for 2 hours once started and only one attempt is allowed. Please be sure to start the test at least 2 hours before the closing time so that it can be completed by the close time. At the closing time or at the completion of 2 hours you MUST save and submit the test, otherwise, all the attempted questions will be lost. Once started the test cannot be paused, stopped or re-started. Once you have completed the test, it cannot be re-taken.

Students need to obtain a minimum score of 50% in the online test to be awarded a pass for this assessment.

Responses are assessed according to:

• Use correct descriptors and correct professional terminology relevant to the question asked

• The ability to provide detailed answers that correctly describe physical principals relevant to the question asked

• The ability to identify and interpret imaging factors that are inappropriately optimised

• The ability to correctly recognise imaging artifacts and succinctly compose appropriate responses based on learning from the unit

Ultrasound is a practical health profession, hence laboratory experience is vital to being able to develop the skills required to acquire and optimise an image.

The practical residential school day provides you with hands-on tuition so that you can manipulate both transducer and imaging parameters.

To demonstrate your understanding of image acquisition and optimisation, the laboratory manual requires you to optimise B-Mode and Doppler images and requires you to answer questions relevant to the practice of ultrasound.

• The residential school is compulsory and must be fully attended to pass this unit.
• All questions in the residential school lab manual must be answered and a completed lab manual submitted via the assessment tab in Moodle by Saturday 08th February by 22:00 AEST (10 pm).
• There are questions within the lab manual which you will need to complete on the day, or in the week after.
• The completed lab manual then needs to be uploaded and submitted via the assessment tab in Moodle.
• This assessment is PASS/FAIL.

To obtain a pass mark you must demonstrate:

• Correct application of lecture content and equations to explain the benefits and limitations of ultrasound equipment and modes
• Well considered and detailed discussion of physical principles with correct and consistent professional terminology
• Application of professional terminology to ultrasound images and various artifacts in ultrasound
• The ability to consistently describe the correct relationship between various imaging controls and quality aspects of ultrasound images
• Completeness of answers and tasks provided
• Correct recognition and application of terminology to ultrasound images
• Attend compulsory Residential School