MRSC3255
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course seeks to engage students in examining and reflecting on the requirements for regulated professional practice, the frameworks available to graduates to ensure the maintenance and currency of professional knowledge and skills, and the pathway of progression from competent graduate to advanced practitioner. This course will assist students to consider and reflect upon the short to long term career planning options available to them as graduates.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2021.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Recognise the requirement for, and pathways for, maintaining up to date knowledge and clinical skills over their professional careers, and differentiate between workplace learning activities, continuing professional development (CPD), and formal postgraduate learning
2. Map a graduate career pathway from competent graduate practitioner to advanced practitioner, using available postgraduate/workplace/CPD programs, indicating the outcomes for career development that eventuate as a result of the completion of the program. In developing a career plan students will need to differentiate between workplace learning activities, continuing professional development (CPD), and formal postgraduate learning, and consider the impact of these learning approaches on professional development and the advanced practitioner role.
3. Demonstrate the ability to participate in, and complete, a continuing professional development activity
4. Design and evaluate a workplace CPD activity, based on a recognised framework for CPD, that engages their own and fellow staff's workplace learning. In developing this activity students will need to recognise and reflect on the requirement for, and pathways available, for maintaining up to date knowledge and clinical competence across their professional careers
Content
- The requirements of continuing professional development as part of maintaining ongoing registered practice in Australia.
- Workplace Learning, Continuing Professional Development, Postgraduate course work and research higher degree frameworks
- Career planning and mapping
- Advanced Practice Roles
Requisite
This course is only available to students enrolled in the [40010] Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Honours)(Radiation Therapy) program and who must have successfully completed MRSC2250 and MRSC2270.
Assumed knowledge
Successful completion of all courses in year 1 and 2 of the B Medical Radiation Science (Radiation Therapy) program (160 units)
Assessment items
Project: Career Mapping and Planning
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Project: Maintaining Currency by completing a CPD task
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Project: Design a CPD activity
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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