Course Title: Professional Practice 2 - Laboratory Medicine

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Professional Practice 2 - Laboratory Medicine

Credit Points: 48.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

MEDS2188

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Workplace

Sem 1 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2021,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: Rosita Zakaria Abkoo

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: rosita.zakaria@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of:

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.


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 Laboratory Medicine Program:

  • Knowledge Capability (PLO 1)
  • Technical Capability (PLO 2)
  • Professional Work Practices (PLO 3)
  • Communication Skills (PLO 4)
  • Reflective capability (PLO 5)
  • Research Capability (PLO 6)


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

  1. Apply informed consent and confidentially in a workplace setting.
  2. Demonstrate effective time-management and fitness to practice while undertaking professional placement.
  3. Discuss your roles and responsibilities as a professional practice student, your limits of practice, and how you and the laboratory where you are placed create a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
  4. Describe and analyse pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical specimens/processing procedures and requirements in your workplace setting.
  5. Discuss and apply relevant procedures for results validations, including quality control and quality assurance measures in your workplace laboratory.
  6. Interpret laboratory results for a wide range of specimens/tests in your workplace setting and describe the process for issuing final patient reports.
  7. Receive training and become competent in a wide range of tests/methods for your specific discipline/laboratory area of industry placement.
  8. Reflect on your placement experiences of applying a professional approach and professional skills to practice as a trainee medical scientist to enhance your career prospects.


Overview of Learning Activities

As you may be placed in a diverse range of laboratory settings it is not possible, or in fact desirable, to be too specific about the type of learning experiences that you might encounter. As guidance to supervisors your learning experiences should be designed to address the professional competencies articulated for Medical Scientists in Australia.

You are expected to complete laboratory/professional practice experience over the two semesters of placement in the courses MEDS2187 Professional Practice 1 - Laboratory Medicine and this course MEDS2188 Professional Practice 2 - Laboratory Medicine.


Overview of Learning Resources

The learning resources available during this course include the library resources of RMIT, plus the full resources of the organisation in which you are placed. The course will also have a myRMIT site through RMIT's online Learning Management System (LMS) for the conduct of an online conference throughout the semester, and for the access of documents and learning materials related to the course.


Overview of Assessment

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 Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Professional practice portfolio competencies (HURDLE)

Weighting for all competencies = 80%

This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

Assessment Task 2: Professional performance portfolio appraisal

Weighting 20%

This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8

HURDLE: The evidence provided for each of the competency standards must be satisfactory. You must have satisfactorily completed the placement including a satisfactory performance appraisal in this course MEDS2188).