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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 |
CL10 enrolled prerequisites: BMSC13001 Advanced Haematology CM18 enrolled prerequisites: 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 - 2027
Term 1 - 2027 Profile
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
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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
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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: Student feedback, personal reflection
Outdated lecture/tutorial videos and PowerPoint slides
Update all videos and slides prior to 2026 offering.
Substantially completed. Tutorials were comprehensively redesigned to incorporate interactive scenarios and stimulate discussion. 70% of lectures were rewritten and re-recorded, including updated content on contemporary laboratory practice and total laboratory automation. Remaining lectures will be updated for the next offering.
Source: Student feedback
Confusion around standards required for assessments
Update rubric and improve scaffolding for assessments 1+3.
Assessment scaffolding was strengthened through the addition of a tutorial discussing assessment requirements and timely responses to student questions throughout the term. Students were able to submit short sections of early drafts to for review and feedback. All assessment rubrics were rewritten to clarify the required criteria and reduce ambiguity in marking. Further refinement of the rubrics is planned for 2027.
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.
Tutorials were moved to 6 pm to improve accessibility for students working or undertaking placement. Regular live attendance increased 200% compared with the 2025 offering.
Source: SUTE feedback and self-reflection
Continued modernisation of lecture content
Complete redevelopment and re-recording of the remaining lecture material. Introduce new content on analyser and assay selection and validation, and further expand coverage of total laboratory automation.
In Progress
Source: Self-reflection
Assessment design for future cohort growth and emerging GenAI use
Review the current assessment structure in preparation for increased enrolments associated with CM18 and with consideration of how appropriate GenAI use can be incorporated into assessments.
In Progress
To see Learning Outcomes from an earlier availability, please search via a previous term.