Course Title: Professional Practice 1 - Laboratory Medicine

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Practice 1 - Laboratory Medicine

Credit Points: 48.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

MEDS2187

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Workplace

 Sem 2 2019,
Sem 2 2020,
Sem 2 2021,
Sem 2 2022,
Sem 2 2023

Course Coordinator: Dr Dodie Pouniotis

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 6680

Course Coordinator Email: dodie.pouniotis@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 201.10.010


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Assumed Knowledge

All First and Second Year Courses (including electives) must have been successfully completed. In addition, students must have completed at least one major prior to undertaking professional practice placement.


Course Description

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real workplace context and where feedback from industry is integral to your experience.

This course is conducted as a co-operative education sandwich course during which you undertake a program of supervised professional practice in either medical research or hospital or private pathology laboratory affiliated with the department, for the purposes of educating and training future diagnostic or research Medical Scientists.

At any time prior to or during your placement if there are concerns raised related to your fitness to practice the WIL coordinator can request that you gain full medical clearance to continue your placement.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for the BP147 Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Laboratory Medicine) Program:

  • Knowledge Capability (PLO 1)
  • Technical Capability (PLO 2)
  • Professional Work Practices (PLO 3)
  • Communication Skills (PLO 4)
  • Reflective capability (PLO 5)


On successful completion of this course you should be able to:

  1.  Describe what is covered by occupational health and safety (OH&S), equal opportunity, professional duty of care, ethics, and the need for effective communication and team work.
  2. Discuss the importance of the workplace structure both in general and within your placement organisation and the roles and accountabilities of employees of this organisation.
  3.  Discuss the importance of, and be able to apply, sustainability concepts within the placement laboratory.
  4. Demonstrate an understanding and provide examples of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) in the placement laboratory.
  5. Discuss internal Quality Control (IQC), external Quality Assurance (EQA) and total quality management (TQM) in medical laboratories, and explain accreditation procedures in relation to ISO15189.
  6. Discuss the application of medical informatics such as Laboratory Information System, Point of Care Test (POCT) and laboratory automation in a medical laboratory environment


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials, tutorials, practicals, laboratories, seminars, project work, class discussion, individual and group activities. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

This course contains hurdle requirements. All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Hurdle requirements: The evidence provided for each of the competency standards must be satisfactory. You have completed 100 days of placement during the entire duration of placement.

Assessment Tasks

Early Assessment Task: Draft/s professional practice portfolio competencies
Weighting 0%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 (depends on the competencies submitted by individual students)

Assessment Task 2: Performance appraisal
Weighting 20%
This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

Assessment Task 3: Professional practice portfolio competencies (X 7 competencies)
Total Weighting for 7 competencies = 80%
This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.