Unit Synopsis
This unit will allow you to synthesise your knowledge of common traumatic and environmental emergencies, incorporating contemporary evidence-based knowledge into new critical care trauma treatment paradigms. In addition, you will be able to apply critical care paramedic skills and interventions to the management of traumatic and environmental emergencies and to exercise leadership and engage in teamwork within trauma management systems.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Co-requisites PMSC20002 Advanced Clinical Skills Application PMSC20005 Advanced Assessment, Diagnostic Interpretation and Management 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
Term 2 - 2026 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 Postgraduate 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. Case Study | 50% |
| 2. Presentation | 50% |
| 3. 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 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 7.69% 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: Face to face discussions.
The students expressed multiple times how much they enjoyed the high-fidelity scenarios and the case studies that were covered throughout the term.
It is recommended to continue running high-fidelity scenarios and to add more case studies to the unit's Moodle page.
The high-fidelity scenarios were continued in the T2 2025 residential school.
Source: Group and individual discussion at residential school.
The students expressed that they really enjoyed the leadership and communication challenge games.
Continue with the challenge games as part of the introduction period at the start of residential school. This helps bond the full time and part time students who haven't met until this point.
In Progress
Source: Group and individual discussion at residential school.
The Multiple Casualty Scenario was a highlight.
Keep the last day of their residential school experience as a Multiple Casualty Day. This day enables students to apply all the content learnt throughout the course to high-fidelity complex cases.
In Progress
Source: Group and individual discussion at residential school.
They expressed that the group debrief was excellent, as they got to hear about the learning points from all the cases involved in the multicausality scenario.
A detailed group debrief was essential, allowing each case to be explored thoroughly and giving students the opportunity to articulate their individual key learning points. This approach ensured that all students were able to maximise the experience by learning not only from their own scenario but from every case undertaken throughout the day. We will continue to implement this method in future iterations of the unit.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Synthesise knowledge of common traumatic and environmental emergencies
- Assess contemporary evidence for incorporation into new trauma treatment paradigms
- Apply evidence-based knowledge in the management of trauma and environmental emergencies
- Demonstrate advanced critical care paramedic skills and interventions in the management of traumatic and environmental emergencies
- Exercise leadership and engage in teamwork within trauma management systems.
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| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 2 - Presentation | • | • | |||
| 3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • | |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | ||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | • | ||
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| 1 - Case Study | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
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| 3 - Practical Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||