CQUniversity Unit Profile.

Health professionals are required to possess a body of knowledge that is relevant to their scope of practice whereby fundamental knowledge is required to be understood and then be built upon clinically. To demonstrate your understanding and knowledge of this unit you are required to complete an online test.

• This test must be accessed through the assessment tab on Moodle and will comprise 10 questions addressing multiple weeks of content requiring written responses to be completed in a 90 minute time frame.
  

• The test will be open from Monday the 3rd of June at 9 am (AEST) and will close on Monday 10th of June at 9 am (AEST)
• You will need to allocate a 90 minute period throughout the time the test is open in order to complete the test. Please note: You MUST start the test before 7:30 am (AEST) on Monday the 3rd of June as the test will automatically close at 9 am (AEST) Monday 10th of June.

• The test will be open for 90 minutes (allowing 9 minutes per question) with only ONE attempt being allowed
• Once started the test cannot be paused, stopped, re-started or re-taken
• Questions will be drawn from a pool of questions to allow each student test to be unique whilst addressing the same learning outcomes for each student. Image viewing questions may be included and you are required to be familiar with normal and pathological sonographic imaging of the areas discussed in this unit
• As this test is online and open book, you will find it useful if you have produced your own notes from the lectures and tutorials and that you are familiar with the unit information
• You may benefit from having a calculator available when sitting the test

This assessment is to be undertaken as an individual. As with all other university examinations, colluding with other students on non-group work tasks is considered academic misconduct and may lead to action being taken by the University.

No referencing style is required in the online test.

In your role as a health professional you may be asked to complete a presentation, for example, at a conference where e-posters are common.  In this assessment task you will develop skills associated with producing an e-poster which will enable you to undertake this task for any topic.  In addition you will be orally presenting your e-poster at a Zoom session attended by students enrolled in the unit and your unit coordinator. During the oral presentation of your e-poster, you will be asked to share your understanding of your topic with your peers. Your peers will then provide feedback related to your presentation to the unit coordinator and this feedback will contribute to your overall assessment grade.  Please note the e-poster Zoom presentations are scheduled for Thursday the 9th of May at 1:30 pm AEST.

You are required to develop an educational e-poster that clearly presents the use of ultrasound to examine a specific musculoskeletal (MSK) structure or pathology.

• The presentation must be limited to eight (8) slides excluding the title and reference slides
  
• An abstract is required to accompany the e-poster, but not included within the poster
• The e-poster should be written at a level suitable for presentation at a conference
• You must state which conference you would intend it to be presented to (nominate your intended audience)
• The first slide should be the title slide which should contain the title of the presentation, your name and qualifications
• Each content slide should have clear headings and be presented in a logical, clear and visually appealing fashion
• The area outlined in the poster should be clinically relevant to the practice of musculoskeletal sonography
• The anatomy, sonographic appearance of normal and abnormal structures, and a discussion of why the examination may be undertaken along with the pathology that may be encountered in the region should be discussed.

You are required to have researched, analysed, critically reflected on and synthesized current (less than 10 yrs post publication) medical literature from peer reviewed sources. A high level of communication needs to be utilized to convey a clear message with all anatomical images being of high quality, well labelled and correctly referenced. Please note all slides are required to be in 'landscape' format.

The written component of your e-poster will be assessed on academic writing quality and should address the following points;

• The e-poster should contain organized, logical and coherent content with a clear and concise message
• Please use numbers and bullets to highlight points. Your poster will be assessed on the accurate use of spelling, grammar and terminology suitable for the target audience
• Content of e-poster - the purpose of the poster should be clear and relevant to the field of musculoskeletal sonography
• The anatomy, sonographic appearance and pathophysiology of a particular structure or tissue should be presented with diagrams and images used to support the discussion
• Evidence based content must be used.

Suitability for presentation - The e-poster should be suitable for presentation at the chosen conference and the subject matter relevant to the selected audience. Referencing - In-text references and the reference list must be all accurate, complete and in the correct Vancouver style with high quality and appropriate sources utilized.

The oral component of your e-poster will be assessed on the following points;

• Presentation content
  
• Presentation delivery
• Use of audio-visual aids

The marking rubric to be used for this assessment is available on the unit Moodle site in week one along with the oral presentation feedback form which provides more detail related to the oral presentation.