Unit Synopsis
This unit will cover the role of sonography to evaluate conditions to guide the safe management of paediatric patients within an ethical framework of family-centred practice. You will develop knowledge regarding indications for sonographic imaging, advanced sonographic protocols using existing and emerging technology, and how to differentiate between normal and abnormal sonographic appearances. This knowledge will allow you to enhance your advanced sonographic imaging practices related to paediatric patients, interpret sonographic findings and sonographically guide interventions undertaken in the radiology department.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
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 |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Online Test | 60% |
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%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 100% 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.
Source: Unsolicited email
Students found the unit enjoyable and interesting while finding the assessment tasks challenging.
Continue to provide interesting and relevant learning opportunities to challenge the students but consider other options with respect to the assessment tasks.
Interesting and relevant clinical sonographic paediatric cases were discussed in tutorials to keep the tutorials interesting. The assessment task was minimally adapted to allow it to still be challenging but also allow for learning.
Source: SUTE
Students asked for exemplars of the written assessment task.
Consider providing exemplars of assessment 1.
Exemplars of assessment 1 were provided to assist students with completion of this assessment task.
Source: SUTE
Students requested exemplars of the written assessment task (assessment task 2) to provide a further guide on expectations.
Exemplars of a written assessment task should be provided in future deliveries of a Master level unit of this kind in the new course, CM53 (delivered on the Be Different platform).
In Progress
Source: Unsolicited email.
Students enjoyed the experience of interactive tutorials and found the content very helpful as learning gained was able to be applied in their clinical and professional sonographic practice.
Although this was the final delivery of this unit (which is being replaced by a different unit called Advanced Obstetric and Paediatric sonography (MEDS29001) in a new Master of Medical Ultrasound course, similar tutorials and learning resources should be continued to be utilised in future iterations of this unit to enhance student learning and their learning experience.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Evaluate sonographic imaging of the paediatric patient, including normal and abnormal sonographic appearances, and the use of sonographic findings to guide patient management.
- Research and evaluate the use of existing and emerging sonographic technology and imaging protocols to investigate the paediatric patient in a safe and ethical manner.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • |
| 2 - Online Test | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
| 2 - Online Test | • | • | • | ||||||