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Clinical experience and assessments are an integral part of our courses and it is imperative that students pass all the clinical assessments to graduate from their course.
Several measures have been implemented to ensure the quality of clinical assessments as well as consistency, procedural fairness and transparency.
Students enrolled in the subjects Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography, Vascular Sonography, Musculoskeletal Sonography, and Clinical Sonography Portfolio have to demonstrate a minimum of 200 supervised hours per semester.
Supervisor details are collected at the beginning of every semester from all students, and both students and supervisors are made aware that they may be contacted anytime during the course.
Students are not able to enrol in the final subject, Clinical Sonography Portfolio, until they have at least 2000 hours of clinical experience logged and verified by a supervisor in their log book. An open discussion occurs at the beginning of this subject to ensure the student is ready to graduate.
Once students begin their training position, they are required to complete a series of formative milestone assessments as performance checkpoints.
Further information about these can be found in the appropriate section on our Program Milestone Page.
Once enrolled in the Clinical Sonography Portfolio subject, students are required to undergo summative practical assessments, in the format of tutor assessments undertaken at their worksite, and then via submission of videos of them scanning in the workplace with established and consistent marking guidelines.
The details of these assessments can be found on the subject learnonline site, as well as in the evidence provided above under the Criteria 6.4 and 6.5 headings.
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