Accurate assessment and management of cardiac conditions requires comprehensive knowledge of cardiac pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment. By studying the pathophysiology, medications, cardiac assessment skills and data relevant to common cardiac conditions, you will be armed with the necessary knowledge to discuss given clinical scenarios. With this knowledge you will assess cardiac ultrasound and other cardiac data as it relates to clinical cases and discuss clinical problems within an ethical framework of best practice. In preparation for clinical placement you will learn to operate the tools needed to analyse cardiac structure and function by performing echocardiographic examination and electrocardiogram (ECG) studies. You will analyse the outcomes of these studies and other cardiac data presented in simulated clinical cases. You will demonstrate the professional knowledge, attitude and skills required to perform practical cardiac assessment in a clinical setting. This will be assessed within a simulated environment. This unit prepares you for entry into the clinical environment using the Assessment of Readiness for Clinical tool (ARC) in conjunction with other assessment tasks. Attendance at practical activities is a requirement of this unit.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 2 |
Credit Points | 12 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite ECHO11004 Cardiac Clinical Unit 1 ANDCo-requisite MPAT12001 Medical Pathophysiology AND MEDS12001 Physics of Ultrasound
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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Written Assessment | 40% |
2. Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) | 0% |
3. Practical Assessment | 0% |
4. Performance | 0% |
5. Examination | 60% |
6. Reflective Practice Assignment | 0% |
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%).
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 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 60.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 24.39% response rate.
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:
Linked to National and International Standards
1. ASAR Accreditation Standards for Cardiac Sonography - critical practice Unit 8 - Cardiac, Foundation units of competence - 1 - 5.
2. European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Core Syllabus
3. American Registry for Cardiac Sonography Core Syllabus
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | ||||
2 - Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) | • | ||||||
3 - Practical Assessment | • | ||||||
4 - Performance | • | ||||||
5 - Examination | • | • | • | ||||
6 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
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 | • | • | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
2 - Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||
4 - Performance | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
5 - Examination | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
6 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |