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Performing simulated radiography techniques in the x-ray lab environment allows you to apply your learned skills, by positioning your peers as patients for simulated x-ray examinations and modifying technical factors. Attending the supervised and independent practice lab sessions is crucial to your learning success and preparation for your clinical placements.

This assessment task consists of two separate practical assessments:

• Practical assessment 1 - Upper Limb
  • Due in week 6
  • Worth 20% of the total unit grade
• Practical assessment 2 - Lower Limb
  • Due in week 11
  • Worth 25% of the total unit grade

While there is no minimum score required for each individual practical assessment, there is a minimum combined score of 50% required to pass this assessment task.

Practical Assessment 1 - Upper Limb
This is an individual 10-minute practical assessment in the x-ray suite. You will perform one simulated radiography examination of the upper limb using a peer as your patient. You may be assigned any of the projections that have been covered in Weeks 1 - 5 inclusive. Feedback provided from this assessment will enable you to structure your learning and make improvements to your performance in preparation for Practical Assessment 2 - Lower Limb in Week 11.

Practical Assessment 1 - Upper Limb will evaluate your performance in the areas of patient care, professional behaviours, patient positioning and imaging technique, management of the radiographic workflow, and critical safety requirements of the radiographic examination.

Please note:

• This is a timed examination. You will have 10 minutes to complete the assessment. Any elements not completed within the allocated 10 minutes will be scored as not attempted.
• You must present for this assessment wearing the Medical Imaging clinical uniform.
• Your performance will be video recorded to enable moderation.
• As this is a simulation of a clinical procedure, you may not access any resources or consult with or accept any input or assistance via any means, from any other person, group or artificial intelligence (AI) while you perform this assessment – this is a closed book assessment.

This assessment item must be completed during your timetabled practical session on the specified due date. If you have extenuating circumstances that cause you to be unable to attend your practical assessment at your timetabled date and time, you must apply for an assessment extension. See Section 5 of the University's Assessment Policy and Procedure for details regarding assessment management, specifically around assessment extension. If your request for an extension is approved, you will be assigned a new practical date/time which will be set according to the availability of the imaging facilities and assessor. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can attend at that new assigned date/time. In the absence of an approved extension, you will not be able to complete this task at a later date and would therefore receive a score of zero for the assessment task.

Practical Assessment 2 - Lower Limb
This is an individual 10-minute practical assessment in the x-ray suite. You will perform one simulated radiography examination of the lower limb using a peer as your patient. You may be assigned any of the projections that have been covered in Weeks 7 - 10 inclusive.

Practical Assessment 2 - Lower Limb will evaluate your performance in the areas of patient care, professional behaviours, patient positioning and imaging technique, management of the radiographic workflow, and critical safety requirements of the radiographic examination.

Please note:

• This is a timed examination. You will have 10 minutes to complete the assessment. Any elements not completed within the allocated 10 minutes will be scored as not attempted.
• You must present for this assessment wearing the Medical Imaging clinical uniform.
• Your performance will be video recorded to enable moderation.
• As this is a simulation of a clinical procedure, you may not access any resources or consult with or accept any input or assistance via any means, from any other person, group or artificial intelligence (AI) while you perform this assessment – this is a closed book assessment.

This assessment item must be completed during your timetabled practical session on the specified due date. If you have extenuating circumstances that cause you to be unable to attend your practical assessment at your timetabled date and time, you must apply for an assessment extension. See Section 5 of the University's Assessment Policy and Procedure for details regarding assessment management, specifically around assessment extension. If your request for an extension is approved, you will be assigned a new practical date/time which will be set according to the availability of the imaging facilities and assessor. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can attend at that new assigned date/time. In the absence of an approved extension, you will not be able to complete this task at a later date and would therefore receive a score of zero for the assessment task.

The radiographic imaging examination is broken down into criteria. Your performance will be scored on your ability to perform these criteria following the posted performance standards for the assessment.

Your performance target is to perform each criteria completely and correctly at the level of the stated standard.

Criteria have been grouped into the following categories:

• Critical
• Professional Behaviours
• Patient Care
• Technical
• Workflow

Your overall mark is calculated based on your criteria scores and the category weightings.

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (MRPBA) specifies in their Professional Capabilities that to practice safely and competently, entry level practitioners have a responsibility to use a range of reflective processes to critically monitor their actions to ensure that their practice is evidence informed (MRPBA, 2020).

You learned how to reflect in MEDI11004 Professional Practice, and this assessment task further develops these skills. For this task you will use reflection to develop as a professional by self-assessing the weaker areas of your performance, and formulating a goal to address one of these areas.

During lab sessions, all students will observe their peers and provide constructive feedback to the student playing the role of "radiographer". You will provide feedback based on the technical performance, patient care and communication skills demonstrated. You are to log in the Feedback section of the Reflection & Action Plan Assessment Template any feedback you receive from your lab supervisor and/or peers, plus add your own observations. For each week you will briefly reflect on what went well and what you can improve upon for the following week. From the feedback gathered across the first five weeks of labs you will select one attribute that you feel requires improvement to reflect on more deeply.

By thinking deeply through an attribute of your performance with the intention of learning from it, you will achieve a better understanding of your thinking and actions and how they impact on your performance. You will use this reflection to develop an action plan that you will implement in the labs for the remainder of the term in preparation for your upcoming assessments and future clinical placements. You will discuss how you plan to raise your performance of the selected attribute by setting a SMART goal (specific, measurable, action-oriented, realistic and time-based) and detailing how you have addressed each aspect of this SMART goal. 

The purpose of this task is for you to gain a greater insight into the motivations behind your performance and for you to use this knowledge to direct your own self development. For this reason, it is acceptable to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to facilitate your research and to help generate ideas for this assessment task, however your submission is to be written by you and not by artificial intelligence. Note that AI material is not peer reviewed and should not be used as a primary resource. Content generated by AI should be verified by reliable sources, and these sources can then be referenced. To ensure there is transparency around the way that you have used AI, you will make an artificial intelligence declaration as part of your assessment submission. You will correctly cite text or ideas generated by AI and quoted or paraphrased in your submission following the CQUniversity Academic Learning Centre’s Guidelines for Referencing Large Language Models or Artificial Intelligence in Your Assignments, Vancouver style. Using content generated by AI without acknowledgement is plagiarism.

A Word template will be provided for this assessment item. This template will walk you through the reflection and action plan process. You must complete all fields on this template. As this is a reflective report, you are to write in the first person. The Reflection and Action Plan should be 600-800 words in length, with a maximum word count of 1000.

MRPBA. (2020). Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia - Professional capabilities for medical radiation practice. Medicalradiationpracticeboard.gov.au. https://www.medicalradiationpracticeboard.gov.au/Registration-Standards/Professional-Capabilities.aspx

The reflection and action plan submissions are assessed on the quality of: 

• Reflection on weekly feedback and observations
• Description of the attribute or behaviour chosen for focused reflection
• Relevance and depth of the focused reflection
• Use of authoritative external sources to support your statements
• Documentation and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 
• Clarity and relevance of the action plan (SMART Goal)
• Communication

The mark allocation for each criterion is detailed in the marking rubric that is posted on the unit Moodle site.

Image evaluation is an intrinsic part of performing and perfecting x-ray examinations. The radiographs that we provide to a health care team influence decisions made about a patient's healthcare journey and therefore can impact on patient health outcomes. High quality radiographs provide valuable information and enable appropriate decisions to be made. Low quality radiographs provide poor or incomplete information and could result in poor decisions being made. In order to assess the quality of the information you are providing a patient's care team you need to be able to assess the quality of your radiographs. If you determine that your radiographs are of suboptimal quality, you need to know how to rectify this. By understanding the relationships between patient positioning, examination setup and radiographic appearance, you will be able to determine appropriate actions to correct errors and omissions when they occur to improve imaging outcomes.

When you attend clinical placements, you will be required to provide a verbal assessment of your radiographic images to your supervisor and, when appropriate, to explain how you will correct any errors or omissions prior to repeating a radiograph. Once you graduate, you will complete this assessment and adjustment process every time you take a radiograph to ensure you are consistently producing high quality radiographs making this a skill you will use throughout your entire career.

This task assesses your knowledge and skills in the evaluation of radiographic images for technical sufficiency, and to discuss methods to modify the examination to improve imaging outcomes.

This is a 15 minute time limited assessment. During this time you will progress through a number of stations. Each station will present a different radiographic image that has been covered in this unit. At each station you will be required to verbally respond to a series of questions about the technical sufficiency and or methods to improve the technical sufficiency of the presented image. Your responses will be video recorded to enable marking and moderation of your responses relative to the posted marking rubric. Not all students will be presented with the same radiographic images.

Please note:

• This is a timed examination. Any elements not completed at a station within the allocated time will be scored as not attempted.
• Your performance will be video recorded to enable moderation.
• As this assessment simulates the image evaluation process in the clinical setting, you may not access any resources or consult with or accept any input or assistance via any means, from any other person, group or artificial intelligence (AI) while you perform this assessment – this is a closed book assessment.

This assessment item must be completed during your timetabled OSCE assessment session on a specified due date. If you have extenuating circumstances that cause you to be unable to attend your OSCE at your timetabled date and time, you must apply for an assessment extension. See Section 5 of the University's Assessment Policy and Procedure for details regarding assessment management, specifically around assessment extension. If your request for an extension is approved, you will be assigned a new OSCE date and time which will be set according to the availability of the facilities and assessors. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can attend at that new assigned date and time. In the absence of an approved extension, you will not be able to complete this task at a later date and would thus receive a score of zero for the assessment task.

You will be assessed on the correctness, completeness and relevance of responses to given questions. The mark allocation is detailed in the marking rubric for this assessment task which will be posted on the unit Moodle site.

Professional behaviour is a vital component of competency as a health care professional. As such you will be expected to demonstrate this consistently whilst working in the simulated clinical environment of the imaging labs.

The Professional Behaviours Assessment Form is available on the unit Moodle site. It contains detailed descriptors of the required standard for each behaviour and the associated scoring guide. You must bring a printed copy of this form with you to each of your scheduled supervised practical lab classes for this unit. Your lab supervisor will assess your performance relative to the stated standards, record your score on this form and sign it every session.

You are encouraged to make a copy or scan of your form periodically during the term as there is no way to re-do this form if you misplace it. Following your final lab class in Week 11 you are required to upload the completed form into Moodle by the due date.

In the absence of an approved extension, you will not be able to submit this task at a later date and would thus receive a Fail grade for the assessment, which would result in a Fail grade for the unit.

Assessed upon: 

• Attendance 
• Punctuality
• Professional attire 
• Preparedness 
• Productivity 
• Teamwork 
• Professional decorum 
• Feedback

Detailed assessment criteria and the required standards of performance are available on the unit Moodle site. 

You will receive 8 points per lab class if all assessment criteria are met. Any criteria where you have not demonstrated the behaviour to the required standard will receive zero (0) points. Classes missed without just cause will receive zero (0) points for all criteria.

To achieve a 'Pass' for this assessment item you must: 

• Receive 80% of the available points for the term, based on 8 points per supervised practical lab class 
• Submit your completed form via the unit Moodle site by 2pm AEST on Tuesday 27th May 2025.

This assessment is an in-class closed-book online Moodle test taking place on campus. As health care professionals, radiographers must consider many variables during the radiographic imaging process and be able to apply their imaging knowledge and skills to solve problems as they present clinically. This test is focusing on professional content that you should have as 'ready' knowledge in preparation for entry to your first clinical placement.

This in-class test includes the use of images in the form of referrals, diagrams, photographs, radiographic images, and line drawings. These images are used as a basis for a series of questions related to each image. Subjects covered include amongst others, patient positioning, image quality and improvement, anatomy, radiographic technique and patient care. You are required to review the included images and to answer all questions related to each image.

This test will demonstrate your ability to apply the concepts and theory from Imaging Procedures 1 using appropriate profession specific terminology.

You will sit this test at your timetabled assessment time on the due date in your assigned testing room. There are two back-to-back sittings of this test so your test start and end time will depend on your registered session. You will be admitted entry to the test room at your registered session start time. Your session time includes time to log onto your computer workstation and into Moodle prior to the test opening. Once the test opens you will have 60 minutes of time to enter your responses. This test will close automatically when the 60 minutes has elapsed.

During the test you may not access any resources or consult with or accept any input or assistance via any means, from any other person, group or artificial intelligence (AI) regarding the test questions and your responses. 

In the absence of an approved extension, you cannot complete this assessment at a later time, and you will receive a mark of zero for the assessment if you have not completed it by your timetabled date and time. If you have an approved extension, you will be assigned a new test date and time as soon as possible after the original test date, according to availability of a test supervisor and an appropriate room. It is your responsibility to ensure that you can attend at that new assigned date/time. Please see Section 5 of the University's Assessment Policy and Procedure for details regarding Assessment Management, specifically around assessment extension.

Your responses are scored on the following criteria:

• Clarity, correctness, relevance and completeness of the response in addressing the question that was asked
• Correct use of professional and anatomical terminology
• Correct selection and application of core concepts to the specific content of the question
• Evidence of problem-solving and critical thinking

The number of marks for each question are allocated based on the depth and breadth of the required response and will be indicated in the quiz.