The Clinical Supervisor Assessment (formerly known as Mentor report) is completed via the Sonia system. 

During your third, and final, clinical placement, you are required to complete approximately 200 hours of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placement with a jurisdictional ambulance service.  During this clinical placement, you will refine your clinical skills and knowledge in the prehospital environment, to a graduate level of practice under the support and guidance of your supervising paramedic crew. A major aspect of your continued development is clinical supervisor feedback, providing you with independent commentary on your current clinical performance from the point of view of industry colleagues.

For this assessment, you must complete a Clinical Supervisor Assessment which has two components:

• Interim (Formative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment
• Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.

The Interim (Formative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment acts as a mid-placement checkpoint to assist with identifying if you are potentially ‘at-risk’, while the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment is to be submitted at the end of your clinical placement.

Both the Interim and the Final Clinical Supervisor Assessment reports will have a component of self-assessment as well as capture supervisor feedback on performance and attendance, via an online template. You will complete these reports together with your mentor(s) so that you can discuss the feedback and responses on your performance in areas such as:

• Professional capabilities for registered paramedics
• Professionalism
• Skills log
• Case type log
• Clinical activity

There are areas where you can document cases you attended and the types of procedures, skills, and pharmacology you had exposure to while on placement.  Finally, there is a section where you are expected to critically reflect upon your clinical placement. The Professional Practice Placement report is accessible via Sonia.

These documents are not solely to confirm your completion of course requirements; they are equally valuable as evidence logs of your professionalism, conduct, and clinical performance that will support your future employment applications. For these reasons, they are arguably the most valuable documents from your clinical placement, and it is imperative that you are diligent in completing them with your mentors as instructed.

You are responsible for completing your submissions with your clinical supervisor by the due date:

• Interim (Formative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment is due 9am AEST Monday 25th August 2025.  The formative assessment must be completed by student and supervisor on the final shift of the second calendar week of clinical placement. Student and supervisors should complete together and discuss the scores, ensuring it is submitted by 0900 Monday 25th August.
• Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment is due 9am AEST Monday 15th September 2025. Summative assessment must be completed by the student and supervisor during the second last or last shift of clinical placement. Students should confirm the summative assessment has been submitted by the supervisor prior to leaving the station on their final shift of clinical placement.  

Failure by the student and supervisor to complete and submit the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor's Assessment on time may lead to delays in issuing the final grade for this unit.

The 72-hour grace period does not apply to this assessment. 

Level of GenAI use allowed:

• Level 1: You must not use Al at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.

Your Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment will be marked in accordance with the rubric provided on the unit Moodle page. To pass this assessment, you must achieve a pass in all of the following:

• Professional capabilities for registered paramedics: Obtains 3’s or 4’s, in all questions across all Domains in the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Professionalism: Obtains 3’s or 4’s, in all questions in the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Skills log: Accurately completes the skills log section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Case type log: Accurately completes the case log section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.
• Clinical activity: Accurately completes the clinical activity section of the Final (Summative) Clinical Supervisor Assessment.

This is a PASS/FAIL assessment, you must pass this task to pass the unit. 

Professional learning is an ongoing development activity.  This assessment develops skills in reviewing and reflecting on your own professional practice in order to formulate your own continuous professional development plans.  The skills developed in formulating these plans will help you to maximise the value from your placements and give you future skills to take charge of your own career development.

There are three parts to this assessment

• Part A : Your Action Plan for Professional Development during placement (Due 9am Friday of Week 3)  (1-2 pages)
• Part B : Reviewing your Placement Development Plan (Due 9am Friday of Week 12) (1-2 pages)
• Part C : Reflecting for Future Professional Development (Due 9am Friday of Week 12) (1-2 pages)

The development of each of these parts will be supported by activities during the Moodle Drop In sessions.

Level of GenAI use allowed:

• Level 3: You may use Al to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work. You must critically evaluate and modify any Al-generated content you use.

This is a PASS/FAIL assessment.  Omission of one of the parts of this assessment may result in a fail grade.  If you do not obtain a pass in your first attempt, one re-attempt of one part may be allowed.

Part A – Your Action Plan for Professional Development during placement

In Part A, you will develop a one-page action plan which will help you to capitalise on your learnings from your previous placement in your upcoming placement.

You have now completed two clinical placements in PMSC12002 and PMSC13002 and have learned a lot about the placement process, as well as your own strengths and opportunities for development.  You are about to start your third and final placement in this unit. To ensure you get the most value out of this final clinical placement, it is important to think about areas of your clinical practice which were identified during your first two placements as opportunities for development.  Developing a specific improvement plan for yourself will help you to focus your own development opportunities.  To formulate this improvement plan, follow these steps.

• Review your mentor feedback from your two previous placements (PMSC12002 and PMSC13002) and identify 2 areas from each Domain in which you can improve and reflect briefly on why you need to improve those areas.  
• For each area of improvement,
  • identify its relevant domain sub-section (eg, 4.4 Maintain records appropriately) and
  • formulate 1 specific improvement action you can do in your upcoming placement to develop this area.  
• Document the areas, reasons and your action plan using the template provided.

Present your response in the template provided on Moodle.

Development of this action plan will be supported by activities within the Week 2 Moodle Drop In session.

Part B – Reviewing your Placement Development Plan 

In Part B, you will reflect on the effectiveness and practicality of your Part A Action Plan.

Once you have completed your placement, review your placement development action plan from Part A.  Review each of the actions that you set yourself in the plan and answer the following questions:

• Were you able to complete the action?  Give a reason for your Yes or No answer, or a reason for changing the action.
• What was the outcome of the action?  Did it achieve the development you needed?  Why/Why not?
• What will you do differently in that aspect/skill/area in the future as a result of what you have learned?

Present your response in the template provided on Moodle.

Development of this action plan review will be supported by activities within the Week 10 Moodle Drop In session.

Part C – Reflecting for Future Professional Development

In Part C, you will reflect on the learnings directly from your supervisor assessment as well as your placement as a whole and consider how to incorporate learning for improvement within your own continuing professional development.  

Focusing on the placement you have just completed, for each domain, identify 1 area of improvement from your mentor feedback and 1 area of improvement from your own self-reflection.  For each area of improvement, map it to the relevant domain sub-section, then explain why you need to improve it and identify a development action that you can pursue in your first year after graduation.

Additionally, identify from your placement an area of interest that you would like to develop in your future career. Briefly explain that area of interest and the reason for your interest in it. How will you develop your interest further? What actions will you take?

Finally, identify an ethical or legal issue that you observed during placement, briefly describe the issue and reflect on its impact on your future clinical practice.

Present your response in the template provided on Moodle.

Development of this Professional Development Plan will be supported by activities within the Week 11 Moodle Drop In session.

Part A : Your Action Plan for Professional Development during placement

• Clearly identifies areas of self-improvement
• Based on self-reflection on mentor feedback from previous placements
• Formulates improvement actions by addressing self-reflection findings

Part B : Reviewing your Placement Development

• Clearly articulates reasons for action completion or non-completion
• Reflects on the effectiveness of the action and its outcomes
• Self-reflection directs continuous improvement

Part C : Reflecting for Future Professional Development

• Clearly identifies areas of self-improvement
• Based on self-reflection on mentor feedback or self-reflection from this placement
• Articulates areas of interest
• Articulates practical understanding of how ethical or legal issues might impact future clinical practice
• Formulates specific and measurable improvement actions by addressing self-reflection findings