During this clinical placement unit you will complete eleven weeks of full-time work integrated learning experience in a medical imaging clinical facility. You will provide patient care that supports the cultural, physical and psychosocial safety of your patients. You will further develop your skills in general radiography to perform competently in routine situations and to approach the level of competency for complex patients and in complex environments. You will perform routine computed tomography procedures competently and assist in complex procedures. You will attain competency in fluoroscopy in a range of environments. You will further develop your clinical reasoning and decision-making skills as you take on more independence in performance, operating within your scope of practice. You will perform in accordance with the code of conduct for regulated health professionals in Australia.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 4 |
Credit Points | 18 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.375 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisite: MEDI13005 Medical Imaging Clinical Course 3, which must have been completed within the past six months. Should this time limit be exceeded, the student must complete a skills assessment and undergo a period of skills revision as determined by the Head of Course or designate. Co-requisite: MEDI14001 Transition to Independent Practice 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 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Professional Practice Placement | 0% |
2. Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | 0% |
3. Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) | 0% |
4. Practical Assessment | 0% |
5. Reflective Practice Assignment | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 62.50% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 14.55% 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:
This unit maps to the following components of the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia's Professional Capabilities for Medical Radiation Practice (2019):
Domain 1: Medical Radiation Practitioner capabilities 1 - 8
Domain 1A: Diagnostic radiographer capabilities 1 - 3
Domain 2 Professional and ethical practitioner: capabilities 1 - 3
Domain 3 Communicator and collaborator: capabilities 1 - 2
Domain 4 Evidence-informed practitioner: capabilities 1 - 2
Domain 5 Radiation safety and risk manager: capabilities 1 - 4
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Professional Practice Placement | • | • | • | • | • | |||
2 - Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | • | • | • | • | ||||
3 - Direct observation of procedural skills (DOPs) | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
4 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | |||
5 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
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 | • | • | • | • | • | |||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |