MRSC3255
Transition to Radiation Therapy Practice IIIB
10 Units
Available in 2012
| Callaghan Campus | Semester 2 |
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Previously offered in 2013, 2011, 2010
This course will assist students to consider the short to long term career planning options available to them as graduates. This course will review 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 an advanced practitioner. The course will examine the requirements of continuing professional development (CPD) that are linked to ongoing accreditation and/or registration, formal postgraduate course work and research higher degree frameworks, and the requirements for applying and maintaining accreditation/registration/licensing. This course will use professional scenarios as the triggers for study.
ObjectivesStudents who successfully complete this course will be able to: 1. Recognise the requirement for, and pathways for, maintaining up to date knowledge and clinical skills over their professional careers 2. Differentiate between workplace learning activities, continuing professional development (CPD), and formal postgraduate learning, and consider the impact of these learning approaches on professional development 3. Use the professions CPD framework to guide their professional learning, 4. Design and evaluate a workplace CPD activity that engages their own and fellow staffs workplace learning 5. Map a graduate career pathway using available postgraduate programs, indicating the outcomes for career development that eventuate as a result of the completion of the program | ||
ContentWorkplace Learning Continuing Professional Development Postgraduate course work and research higher degree frameworks Advanced Practice Roles Career planning and mapping | ||
Replacing Course(s)MRSC3250 Radiation Therapy Methods IIIB, 20 units | ||
TransitionStudents who fail the existing course MRSC3250 (20 units) will enrol in MRSC3251 Advanced Radiation Therapy Methods IIIB (10 units) and MRSC3255 Transition to MRS Practice (10 units). | ||
Industrial Experience0 | ||
Assumed KnowledgeSuccessful completion of all courses in year 1 and 2 of the B Medical Radiation Science (Radiation Therapy) program (160 units) | ||
Modes of DeliveryDistance Learning : IT Based Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning | ||
Teaching MethodsSelf Directed Learning Student Projects | ||
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Contact HoursStudent Projects: for 4 hour(s) per Week for Full Term | ||
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