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.

Assessment Tasks

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

Past Exams

All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.

This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .

Term 2 - 2014 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 46.97% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% response rate.

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.

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

1. Describe, recognise and recall the major functions of a clinical pathology laboratory including: a. The need to establish a reference range of an analyte in body fluids and how this may relate to a disease process. b. The rigour of quality control and how that is maintained in a clinical pathology laboratory. c. The use of different analytical procedures used to measure different analytes in body fluids.
2. Describe the integration of different biochemical pathways an analyte may be involved in, and how a defect in one pathway may affect other pathways as observed in different disease processes.
3. Demonstrate competency in biochemical laboratory methods and techniques by way of practical class participation and successful reproduction of results in practical report form.
4. Define the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and fat under normal physiological conditions and be able to identify and evaluate changes to these pathways during disease (eg - diabetes).
5. Recall, classify and evaluate several major pathological processes/diseases which occur in the human body and their respective biochemical tests including: a. the normal function of major organ systems such as the blood, lungs, liver, heart and kidneys and be able to distinguish changes which occur during damage to these organs. b. the endocrine/hormone systems and relate specific changes to significant metabolic conditions. c. specific tumor markers as important diagnostic tools. d. diabetes, hepatitis, cystic fibrosis, vascular disease and acidosis/alkalosis.
6. Describe the basic pharmacological treatment of diseases covered in this course such as high cholesterol, cystic fibrosis, hepatitis and inflammation.
7. Recall simple drug metabolism and receptor signalling.
8. Appraise the scientific literature (including journal articles and texts) and communicate this knowledge and understanding via scientific writings tasks such as practical reports and case study/problem-based learning assessment items.

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