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MEDS20009 - Science and Instrumentation of Ultrasound

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the science and instrumentation of clinical ultrasound to enable you to produce images to support clinical decision making. The unit emphasis will be on safety and quality assurance. You are required to attend a compulsory ultrasound skills workshop to complete this unit. In the practical workshop you will apply your knowledge of scanning technique and image optimisation. This unit will form the foundation from which you will build image acquisition, recognition and assessment skills as part of the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Ultrasound.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2020

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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).

Assessment Overview

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. Online Test 0%
2. Practical Assessment 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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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: Student feedback
Feedback
Some online quiz questions needed more context added.
Recommendation
Provide more context to some online quiz questions to assist students interpreting quiz questions.
Action Taken
The quiz questions were reviewed and updated. This subsequently assisted student understanding of how to provide responses to the quiz questions.
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Students appreciated the opportunity to be consulted about the timing of when the residential school was offered, to allow them to plan work schedules around this.
Recommendation
Consider consulting students (when low student enrolment numbers) about the timing of the residential school to ensure maximum student attendance.
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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Acquire ultrasound images of sufficient quality to support clinical decision making.
  2. Characterise and control problems in relation to imaging artifacts in ultrasound.
  3. Discuss the underpinning concepts of image acquisition, benefits and limitations of ultrasound equipment and modes of ultrasound.
  4. Identify and manage safety issues in medical ultrasound.

The International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) Point of care curriculum guidelines

3.3 Demonstration of how to generate and optimise an image- 1, 3 and 5

3.4 Demonstration of good practice in point-of-care ultrasound- 1.2.3.5 and 6




Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
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