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Unit Synopsis
This capstone unit will provide you with an opportunity to examine and critique current health practices issues prior to your entry into the Medical Laboratory Science professional workforce. Your study will focus on the contemporary legislative, social and economic trends in the Australian Pathology profession that will impact on your practice. You will be required to exhibit ethical decision-making and clinical/professional reasoning at a graduate level, in preparation for practice.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 4 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: BMSC13001 Advanced Haematology AND BMSC13002 Advanced Clinical Biochemistry AND BMSC13003 Medical Microbiology 2 AND BMSC13009 Immunology OR BMSC13023 Applied Immunology AND BMSC13010 Pharmacology AND BMSC13011 Advanced Transfusion Science AND BMSC13016 Advanced Histopathology and Cytopathology 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024
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.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Reflective Practice Assignment | 20% |
| 2. Portfolio | 40% |
| 3. Oral Examination | 40% |
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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 75.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 44.44% response rate.
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.
Source: SUTE and Self-reflection
Well structured and developed unit resources, activities and assessments
Continue to maintain current structure of unit resources, activities and assessments based on the 100% SUTE/evaluation data (overall satisfaction and within each category of assessment) over the past 2 years
No changes were made to structure of unit.
Source: Self-reflection
Emphasis on Academic Integrity early in the unit
Ensure to emphasize to students (both in classes and on Moodle) the importance of Academic Integrity and organise to run a workshop by the ALC on academic integrity in one of the early tutorials
Academic integrity was covered in early tutorials. There appeared no overt issues with AI in assessments.
Source: Student feedback, personal reflection
Outdated lecture/tutorial videos and PowerPoint slides
Update all videos and slides prior to 2026 offering.
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Confusion around standards required for assessments
Update rubric and improve scaffolding for assessments 1+3.
In Progress
Source: Personal reflection
Few students able to attend live tutorials due to time allocated
Ensure a more suitable tutorial time for future offerings that is outside standard working hours.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Apply knowledge of legal, economic and ethical issues that impact the provision of health care services and best practice in Medical Laboratory Science
- Investigate the current trends in the provision of professional services to rural/remote and regional Australia
- Discuss the principles underlying effective leadership and communication skills in health care settings, demonstrating cultural safety
- Discuss current Australian Standards for laboratory accreditation and how these impact on service delivery in rural/remote and regional Australia
- Discuss the role of a Medical Laboratory Scientist in the Safety and Risk Management framework in healthcare.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | ||
| 3 - Oral Examination | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | • | |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | ||
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | ||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |