Available in 2024
Course code

MRSC3160

Units

10 units

Level

3000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course allows students to refine their basic to high level professional skills by participating in skill labs at university and by attending a professional placement at an accredited clinical centre. This professional placement will allow students to finalise their professional skills, complete program competency requirements, and become ready to begin clinical practice. The labs must be passed to be allowed to attend professional placement, and pass the course. Clinical placement occurs during Semester 2 for six weeks.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will 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. Evaluate and critique his or her role within and during the clinical practice according to the level of experience

8. 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

  • General radiography
  • Computed Tomography
  • Fluoroscopy
  • Medical imaging modalities

Review of Progress

This course is a compulsory program requirement and is monitored for academic progress purposes. The course must be completed to progress in the program or meet other program requirements.

Failure or withdrawal from this course will result in students being considered under the Student Academic Progress Procedure.


Requisite

Students must be concurrently enrolled in MRSC3155, successfully completed MRSC3105 and MRSC3111, and be active in the Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Honours) (Diagnostic Radiography) [40002] program to enrol in this course.


Assessment items

Log / Workbook: Professional Placement Workbook
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement 50% - Must obtain 50% in this assessment item to pass the course.

Report: General Radiography Image Reports
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement 40% - Must obtain 40% in this assessment item to pass the course.

Report: Reflective Report
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement 40% - Must obtain 40% in this assessment item to pass the course.


Compulsory Requirements

Compulsory Placement and WHS Requirements:

  • NSW Health Verification Requirements - Mandatory NSW Health Verification Requirements must be met. - additional requirements may need to be satisfied for individual placement sites

Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

Clinical-1
  • Face to Face Off Campus 5 days per week for 6 week(s)
  • Equivalent of 30 full-time shifts of compulsory clinical practice during the semester or equivalent part time
Laboratory-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 16 hour(s) per term
  • Attendance to complete laboratory exercises may be used to compliment professional placement.
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 100% of sessions.
Lecture-1
  • Online 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 1 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must meet the compulsory attendance requirement.

Course outline