Unit Synopsis
This unit prepares you for performing cardiac rhythm management and echocardiographic assessments in the clinical workplace. Knowledge presented within this unit will prepare you for subsequent clinical placements. You will explore the pivotal role echocardiography plays in cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT).
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites:
MEDS12001 Physics of Ultrasound 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 |
Compulsory Residential School View Unit Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 30% |
| 2. Online Quiz(zes) | 20% |
| 3. Online Test | 50% |
| 4. Practical Assessment | 0% |
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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Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 66.67% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 54.55% 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: Moodle
The lecture content was great, and taught in a way that made it easy to learn.
Current lectures will continue to be improved and old lectures replaced in 2021.
Pre-recorded lectures provided within this unit were revised. Lectures which needed contemporary content added were updated and new recordings developed and delivered.
Source: Moodle
I found it quite hard learning two different topics each week.
This is double credit unit making it multi-faceted, therefore different topics are required to be covered to fulfil the unit requirements. Content delivery will continue to be revised and improvements will be implemented where feasible, to improve student experience.
Student learning was supported throughout the term. Contextualised tutorials were provided where clinical cases were discussed. In addition, students were provided updates (via forum posts) and revision material for each week of the term to keep them engaged and ensure the volume of learning over the twelve-week term for this 12-credit point unit was reasonably managed.
Source: Moodle
Tutorials were very specific to important areas and explanations of topics were easy to follow and pick up, however there was a lack of engagement and participation from students.
Weekly tutorials will continue to be delivered to support weekly content. The unit coordinator will continue to look for innovative ways to encourage student engagement in live tutorials.
Frequent reminders were sent out with pre-readings offered to students prior to the tutorial to try to engage students.
Source: Moodle
Students felt supported by the step by step break down in tutorials and the quiz feedback, as they learnt to read and interpret ECG and EGM recordings.
Tutorials will be offered weekly and detailed ECG quiz feedback will remain within the unit.
In Progress
Source: Moodle
Feedback obtained from student surveys reported that some lecture recordings contained background noise or low volume levels.
Lecture content will continue to be updated and improved.
In Progress
Source: Moodle
Students appreciated the unit coordinator's prompt responses to forum questions.
The use of the Q&A discussion board will continue to be promoted and used to help improve student understanding.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Interpret the outcome of 12-Lead electrocardiogram (ECG) studies to an intermediate level of competency
- Explain the concepts underpinning cardiac assessment procedures associated with cardiac rhythm management, including consideration of best practice and patient safety
- Describe how echocardiography is used to assess cardiac performance and patient outcomes during cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT)
- Analyse clinical case studies (including data derived from cardiac devices and electrocardiography) and to construct links between cardiovascular disease presentation, assessment and patient outcomes.
- Perform a 12-lead ECG study.
Unit developed in collaboration with International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners certified staff.
Unit linked to ASAR Accreditation Standards for Cardiac Sonography - critical practice Unit 8 - Cardiac, Foundation units of competence - 1 - 5.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
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| 2 - Online Quiz(zes) | • | • | |||
| 3 - Online Test | • | • | • | ||
| 4 - Practical Assessment | • | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | • | • | |
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | • | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | ||
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