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MRSC3111

Diagnostic Radiography Professional Practice IIIA

10 Units 3000 Level Course

Available in 2012

Callaghan CampusSemester 1

Previously offered in 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

This course allows students to refine their basic to advanced professional skills by participating in professional skill labs at university and by attending a professional placement at an accredited clinical centre. The labs and professional placement will increase confidence and competence in undertaking and participating in professional procedures of increasing difficulty or complexity. The labs must be passed to be allowed to attend professional placement, and pass the course.
Clinical placement occurs during Semester 1 for five weeks.

This course is a Compulsory Program Component and must be passed in order to progress in the Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Diagnostic Radiography).

Objectives
Students who successfully complete this course should be able to:
1. observe and identify the role and function of medical radiation practitioners and health care team members in the delivery of health care
2. continue to apply and participate in MRS procedures at a level suitable to their current clinical experience
3. continue to develop and demonstrate a professional attitude towards members of the public and other health care workers
4. further develop clinical reasoning skills
5. further develop and apply communication skills with members of the public and other health care workers
6. practice within an ethical and legal framework
7. be able to evaluate and critique his or her role within and during the clinical practice according to the level of experience
8. be able to describe the current and future roles that may be required to practice within and reflect on the need for continual learning to improve clinical practice
9. summarise their clinical learning over the entire clinical program
Content
- Hepato-Billary and Gastro-Intestinal Imaging
- Genito-Urinary Tract Imaging
- Femal and Maternal Imaging
- Neurological Imaging
Industrial Experience
0
Assumed Knowledge
MRSC2150 Diagnostic Radiography Methods IIB
MRSC2160 Diagnostic Radiography Professional Practice IIB
Must be enrolled in or have successfully completed MRSC3100
Modes of Delivery
Internal Mode
Teaching Methods
Clinical
Laboratory
Assessment Items
Laboratory Exercises
To comply with the various State and Territory Radiation Safety Acts
students must have successfully completed 100% of the Diagnostic
Laboratories. Students not meeting these requirements and not having
supporting Special Consideration documentation will be excluded from
attending the professional placement component and will fail the course.
Other: (please specify)
You must pass this course to progress to MRSC3150 and MRSC3160.
Other: (please specify)
Essential Criteria:
In order to pass this course students must
a. Gain an average mark of 50% or above
AND
b. Gain a minimum mark of 40% in every individual assessment task.
Reports
Professional Placement Workbook
1. Written Reports
2. Clinical Supervisor Reports
3. Clinical Competence/Skill Development
4. Clinical Contact
Contact Hours
Laboratory: for 2 hour(s) per Week for 3 weeks
Clinical: for 40 hour(s) per Week for 4 weeks

Timetables