To be eligible to graduate with the Associate Degree of Cardiac Physiology students must complete the 14 core units (96 units of credit), complete clinical placement requirements and attend residential school as required.

Clinical Placement:
Year 2 includes clinical placement. Students must satisfy specific pre-clinical health, safety, security, including a clear criminal record check, and licensing requirements prior to each placement, and must disclose any condition that may put themselves or the public at significant risk whilst on placement. Due to limited availability of clinical placements, some block placements have start and/or end dates that fall outside standard term start and end dates. As placements are located throughout Australia and New Zealand and availability is limited in each community, students may be placed at locations that are not of their choosing. 100% attendance is required when undertaking clinical placement. Students must prepare financially and personally to relocate for placements, and are responsible for the associated costs. Whilst on placement, students will perform cardiac assessment on, and provide hands-on care to, people who may be ill or injured. Students will need to be physically fit, able to stand and walk for extended periods, lift, stretch, carry heavy loads and have sufficient visual acuity and contrast sensitivity to assess fine detail of images and perform safely in a range of lighting conditions. Students will undergo clinical assessments on performance of cardiac assessment cases, professional behavioural and technical skills.

Clinical Simulation Laboratory Learning
Year 2 of the course include hands-on learning in the clinical simulation and computer laboratories on campus during most terms. Students must attend all laboratory activities, including residential schools, at their campus of admission. Students must demonstrate professional behaviours including regular attendance and meeting the course dress code during clinical simulation laboratory sessions. During simulations of cardiac assessment techniques, all students will participate in role play as patient. Learning activities will require partial removal of clothing to the level that is required for the simulation and will involve touching and being touched by peers. These simulation learning activities take place in a mixed gender environment, including the presence of male academic tutors. If a student is unable to participate, it may impact the student's ability to attain required skills and complete unit assessments.

Completion Timelines
To maintain clinical currency specified cardiac assessment and clinical skills units must be completed within one calendar year as scheduled in the course overview.

ECHO12007 Cardiac Rhythm Assessment, ECHO12006 Cardiac Science and ECHO12005 Cardiac Clinical Unit 2 require completion within one calendar year of each other,

Failure to adhere to these timelines will necessitate completion of a student learning contract which will detail specific learning and assessment requirements to maintain the students' clinical currency.

Year 1 - Term 1
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
ECHO11003	Fundamentals of Cardiac Science
BMSC11010	Human Anatomy and Physiology 1
ALLH11009	Research Methods for Health Professionals
MEDI11002	Physics for Health Sciences

Year 1 - Term 2
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
BMSC11011	Human Anatomy and Physiology 2
ECHO11002	Cardiac Structure and Function
MEDI11004	Professional Practice

Year 1 - Term 3
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
ECHO11004	Biochemistry for Cardiac Pharmacology

Year 2 - Term 1
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
MPAT12001	Medical Pathophysiology
MEDS12001	Physics of Ultrasound
ECHO12006	Cardiac Science

Year 2 - Term 2
Students must complete the following compulsory units:
ECHO12008	Doppler Echocardiography
ECHO12007	Cardiac Assessment Skills
ECHO12005	Cardiac Clinical Unit 2