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Unit of Study SCI73020 - Professional Experience in the Biomedical Setting (2018)

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Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to integrate university studies with experience of professional practice. Students apply, practise and extend knowledge and skills developed in their previous studies through a supervised professional placement.

Unit content

  • Occupational health and safety issues
  • Work placement learning plans
  • Ethical practice
  • Skills of reflective practice

Other topics in this unit will align with the specific placement.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 develop strategies for achieving set goals in an area of professional practice
2 critically reflect on the workplace learning experience
3 work independently and collaboratively in an ethical and safe manner within the workplace
4 apply discipline knowledge and complex reasoning skills in a workplace context
5 evaluate and disseminate selected competency-based topics combining evidence and workplace experience

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. develop strategies for achieving set goals in an area of professional practice
    • GA2:
  2. critically reflect on the workplace learning experience
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
  3. work independently and collaboratively in an ethical and safe manner within the workplace
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. apply discipline knowledge and complex reasoning skills in a workplace context
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  5. evaluate and disseminate selected competency-based topics combining evidence and workplace experience
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.