MRS Residency 1 (6cp) (11818.1)

This unit commences students' medical radiation science clinical residency and their detailed development of skills that underpin the professional and safe practice of diagnostic radiography. These residencies provide the opportunity for students to refine their clinical skills and develop automatous beginning practitioner skills in a supervised environment. Students will further refine their critical evaluation and reflective practice skills. Students are required to pass each placement and related competency tasks to successfully complete this unit.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Under indirect supervision, plan, safely perform and critically evaluate routine and complex radiographic examinations to begin to meet professional capabilities;
2. Practise independently in an advanced ethical, professional and culturally safe manner, applying radiation safety principles and legal standards in the clinical setting under indirect supervision;
3. Demonstrate advanced interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills applicable to the practice of diagnostic radiography and within the interprofessional healthcare system, with critical reflection upon examination outcomes and maintaining safe, respectful and effective care to all patients; and
4. Adapt advancing knowledge and skill in diverse contexts, applying specialist radiographic approaches appropriate to patient presentations, recognising and responding to deteriorating patients and undertake action to ensure appropriate management.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways

Prerequisites

Students must have passed 69 credit points.

Corequisites

Enrolment in 319JA Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science (Medical Imaging)

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.