Overview
This unit focuses on developing your skills in performing routine radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton on an ambulant adult at an advanced beginner level. You will demonstrate high levels of patient care and radiation safety. You will develop skills to evaluate radiographs with regard to image quality and determine if an image is diagnostic. You will apply your understanding of the relationship between the beam, patient and image receptor and how it impacts on image appearance to determine strategies to improve imaging outcomes. You will develop your skills as a reflective practitioner, to gain greater self-awareness and make progress toward a self-directed continued professional development habit. The practical and simulated experiential learning element of this unit is performed in the University's Medical Imaging clinical simulation laboratories.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Corequisites: MEDI12002 Imaging Science 2 MEDI12009 Radiographic Anatomy and Appearances 1 Prerequisites: BMSC11010 Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 and BMSC11011 Human Anatomy and Physiology 2 ALLH11009 Research Skills for Health Professionals MEDI11001 Fundamentals of Imaging Professions MEDI11004 Professional Practice MEDI11005 Patient Care in the Allied Health Professions MEDI11006 Imaging Science 1 MPAT12001Medical Pathophysiology
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).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
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 Undergraduate 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.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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.
Feedback from Student email and informal conversations with students
Students found the reflection and action plan assessment task useful for personal and professional development.
Maintain the reflection and action plan assessment task, building further on foundation of reflective writing in the unit content.
Feedback from Coordinator reflection
The structure of the image critique portfolio assessment is such that academic integrity may not be upheld.
Investigate other methods to assess skills in image critique.
- Safely and effectively perform at an advanced beginner level simulated radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton, focusing on commonly requested examinations on ambulant adults.
- Demonstrate patient care and professional behaviours in the simulated clinical environment.
- Assess radiographs for technical sufficiency.
- Discuss methods to modify a radiographic examination to improve technical sufficiency and/or better demonstrate required anatomy.
- Use technical terminology correctly in discussing the set-up of the beam, patient and image receptor for a radiographic examination and in discussing radiographic images and their appearances.
- Discuss the indications for, anatomical features demonstrated by, technical set-ups, patient care requirements and specific imaging goals of the various radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton.
- Reflect on your performance on an ongoing basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
This unit maps to the following components of the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia's Professional Capabilities for Medical Radiation Practice (2020 version):
- Domain 1
- capability 1, enabling components a, b & c
- capability 2, enabling components c
- capability 4, enabling components a & b
- capability 5, enabling components b & c
- capability 6, enabling components b &c
- capability 7, enabling components b & d
- Domain 2
- capability 1, enabling components a & e
- capability 2, enabling components b, c & d
- capability 4, enabling components a
- Domain 3
- capability 1, enabling components a-f & h
- Domain 4
- capability 2, enabling components b & c
- Domain 5
- capability 1, enabling components b & e
- capability 2, enabling components a & c
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Practical Assessment - 45% | |||||||
2 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 10% | |||||||
3 - Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) - 10% | |||||||
4 - In-class Test(s) - 35% | |||||||
5 - Laboratory/Practical - 0% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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 | |||||||
9 - Social Innovation | |||||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Textbooks
Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Related Anatomy
11th Edition (2025)
Authors: John P. Lampignano & Leslie E. Kendrick
Elsevier
St. Louis St. Louis , Missouri , United States of America
ISBN: 9780323936132
This textbook is available for purchase as an e-book.
You may use earlier editions of this textbook.
There is limited access to the 9th edition of this textbook through the CQU Library.
This textbook will be used in multiple units throughout the Medical Imaging course.
Binding: Hardcover
This textbook is available for purchase as an e-book.
You may use earlier editions of this textbook.
There is limited access to the 9th edition of this textbook through the CQU Library.
This textbook will be used in multiple units throughout the Medical Imaging course.
Bontrager's Handbook of Radiographic Positioning and Techniques
11th Edition (2025)
Authors: John P. Lampignano & Leslie E. Kendrick
Elsevier
St. Louis St. Louis , Missouri , United States of America
ISBN: 9780323936163
This textbook is available for purchase as an e-book.
You may use earlier editions of this textbook.
There is limited access to the 9th edition of this textbook through the CQU Library.
This textbook will be used in multiple units throughout the Medical Imaging course.
Binding: Spiral
This textbook is available for purchase as an e-book.
You may use earlier editions of this textbook.
There is limited access to the 9th edition of this textbook through the CQU Library.
This textbook will be used in multiple units throughout the Medical Imaging course.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Vancouver
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
c.e.agioritis@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Introduction to Radiographic Technique and image evaluation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation lab - orientation to the x-ray room and radiographic procedure
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Fingers & Thumb
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Fingers & Thumb
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Hand
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Hand
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Wrist & Scaphoid
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Wrist & Scaphoid
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Forearm & Elbow
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 4
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Forearm & Elbow
Image-taking session 1
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Consolidation and Practical Assessment
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Practical Assessment 1 - Upper Extremity Due: Week 6 Tuesday (22 Apr 2025) at your scheduled assessment time
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Toes & Foot
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Toes & Foot
On-campus tutorial
Reflection and Goal Setting Due: Week 7 Monday (28 Apr 2025) 9:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Ankle & Calcaneus
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Ankle & Calcaneus
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Basic knee & Tibia/Fibula
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Basic knee & Tibia/Fibula
Image-taking session 2
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Radiography of the Patella and Intercondylar fossa
Chapter
Bontrager's Textbook Ch 5
Events and Submissions/Topic
Simulation radiographic techniques lab - Patella and Intercondylar fossa
Image-taking session 3
On-campus tutorial
Module/Topic
Consolidation and assessment
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Image-taking session 4
OSCE practice
Practical Assessment 2 - Lower Extremity Due: Week 11 Wednesday (28 May 2025) at your scheduled assessment time
OSCE Assessment Due: Week 11 on Thursday or Friday (29th or 30th May 2025) at your scheduled assessment time
Professional Behaviours Due: Week 11 Tuesday (27 May 2025) 2:00 pm AEST
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Assessment
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Events and Submissions/Topic
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Events and Submissions/Topic
This unit is delivered in on-campus mode at Mackay Ooralea campus, running from Weeks 1 to 12. You will need to be on campus for tutorials, labs, and practical and theory assessments from Week 1 onwards. Tutorials will not be recorded.
Image evaluation is an intrinsic part of performing and perfecting x-ray examinations. In this unit you will be taught the skills required to evaluate radiographs for technical sufficiency concurrently with the skills required to successfully perform radiographs. These two skill sets are inextricably linked, successful completion of a radiographic examination requires implementation of both. Each radiograph demonstrates specific parts of the anatomy in a specific way. 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. As you develop one skill set you will find that it will facilitate your development of the other.
Each week's timetabled tutorial and lab activities build on the content of the pre-recorded lectures for the week, this means you need to ensure you have watched the lectures prior to attending labs and tutorials.
High fidelity clinical simulation is a core component of this unit. This simulation includes use of actual x-ray equipment with simulated patients in the Medical Imaging labs.
This is a lab intensive unit. You should plan to attend all labs and tutorials as this will be integral to the development of knowledge and skills required for the assessments in this unit, and for clinical placements. Ensure that you attend labs prepared, having engaged in the weekly learning resources. You are expected to practice your radiographic procedure and positioning techniques during the unsupervised timetabled practice sessions that take place following your supervised lab. This unsupervised time will yield best results when you engage in deliberate practice following reflection on your performance in the preceding supervised lab. The pace of class lab activities has been set with this expectation of practice and corresponding skill development.
You are required to wear the Medical Imaging uniform for all learning activity in the x-ray labs. This includes the Medical Imaging course shirt with smart pants/dress shorts/skirts and safe, dark plain shoes with closed low heel and closed toe, and CQU student name badge. The Medical Imaging Student Dress Code is available on the Course Information & Documents for all Years tile on the CG92 Medical Imagin Portal.
You are required to complete all annual lab inductions specified on the Lab Inductions tile on the CG92 Medical Imaging Portal prior to your first lab. Students will not be admitted into the labs until this has been completed.
Note that 150 hours of student engagement is required for this unit, which equates on average to 12.5 hours per week. In most weeks your engagement should include the following activities:
- Complete pre-reading (1 hour per week)
- View all lectures (2 hours per week)
- Build your study notes (2 hours per week)
- Attend and participate in supervised labs (1.5 hours per week) and independent labs (1.5 hour per week)
- Prepare for tutorials (1 hour per week)
- Attend and participate in tutorials (1.5 hours per week)
- Engage in reflection on weekly learning (1 hour)
- Revise for assessments (1 hour per week)
This unit is designed to run concurrently with MEDI12002 Imaging Science 2 and MEDI12009 Radiographic Anatomy and Appearances 1. You are expected to apply your knowledge and skills from those two units to the learning activities and assessments in this unit.
The unit coordinator for this unit is Carolyn Agioritis.
Contact is by email at c.e.agioritis@cqu.edu.au.
1 Practical Assessment
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.
Practical assessment 1 - Upper Limb will be held during the timetabled assessment sessions on Tuesday of Week 6 (22 Apr 2025). Practical assessment 2 - Lower Limb will be held during the timetabled assessment sessions on Wednesday of week 11 (28 May 2025).
Written feedback provided within 7 calendar days of assessment
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.
- Safely and effectively perform at an advanced beginner level simulated radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton, focusing on commonly requested examinations on ambulant adults.
- Demonstrate patient care and professional behaviours in the simulated clinical environment.
2 Reflective Practice Assignment
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
Week 7 Monday (28 Apr 2025) 9:00 am AEST
Week 9 Monday (12 May 2025)
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.
- Safely and effectively perform at an advanced beginner level simulated radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton, focusing on commonly requested examinations on ambulant adults.
- Demonstrate patient care and professional behaviours in the simulated clinical environment.
- Reflect on your performance on an ongoing basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
3 Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
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.
OSCE assessments will be held during the timetabled assessment sessions on Thursday or Friday of Week 11 (29th or 30th May 2025).
Written feedback provided within 14 calendar days of assessment
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.
- Assess radiographs for technical sufficiency.
- Discuss methods to modify a radiographic examination to improve technical sufficiency and/or better demonstrate required anatomy.
- Use technical terminology correctly in discussing the set-up of the beam, patient and image receptor for a radiographic examination and in discussing radiographic images and their appearances.
4 Laboratory/Practical
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.
Week 11 Tuesday (27 May 2025) 2:00 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Tuesday (10 June 2025)
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.
- Demonstrate patient care and professional behaviours in the simulated clinical environment.
- Reflect on your performance on an ongoing basis, with the goal of improving your practice.
5 In-class Test(s)
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.
Week 12 Monday (2 June 2025) 11:45 pm AEST
Assessments will be held during your timetabled assessment session on Monday of Week 12 (2 June 2025).
Results will be released within 2-weeks of the completion of the in-class test by all students, including approved extensions.
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.
- Assess radiographs for technical sufficiency.
- Discuss methods to modify a radiographic examination to improve technical sufficiency and/or better demonstrate required anatomy.
- Use technical terminology correctly in discussing the set-up of the beam, patient and image receptor for a radiographic examination and in discussing radiographic images and their appearances.
- Discuss the indications for, anatomical features demonstrated by, technical set-ups, patient care requirements and specific imaging goals of the various radiographic examinations of the appendicular skeleton.
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
