This clinical unit will provide opportunities to apply and integrate both theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and professional behaviours in the clinical environment, independently and under the supervision of qualified professionals. You will consolidate skills in cardiovascular assessment using echocardiography and apply your skills in some advanced areas including 3D, strain, speckle tracking, exercise stress testing, contrast echocardiography, perioperative and guiding transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE). You will then apply your knowledge to the analysis of the outcomes of echocardiographic assessment. Behavioural aspects of professional practice are emphasised and you will reflect on your performance so as to exhibit the highest level of safe patient care. Critical appraisal of performance will enable you to advance your own patient care, professional, technical and analytical skills in a work setting.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 3 |
Credit Points | 12 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Pre-requisites ECHO12003 Principles of Cardiac Assessment AND ECHO13001 Adult Echocardiography 2 AND MEDS13008 Vascular Sonography AND ECHO12005 Echocardiography Clinical Course 1 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 |
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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.
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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