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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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||