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Part One Course Overview

Section 1: Applicants Details

Section 2: Course Details

Confirmation of Re-Accreditation of Sonography Courses

Part Two Standard 1: Governance

Criteria 1.1, 1.2, 1.4

Self study reports

Postgraduate course structure IGSO/IMSO (General), ICBR

2023 Employer satisfaction survey

Course Activity Reports

Approved Course Statements

Program Dashboards - ICBR, IGSO, IMSO Courses

Criteria 1.3: Not applicable

Criteria 1.5: Governance arrangements for the provider and the Course

UniSA ALH Academic Unit Organisational Chart and Governance Commitee Structures

Medical Sonography Organisational chart

Criteria 1.6: Current quality assurance and accreditation in the relevant education and training sector in Australia

Criteria 1.7: Policies and processes for Course Development, monitoring, review, evaluation and improvement

IGSO and IMSO ERR

Re-accreditation Memo IGSO/IMSO

Re-accreditation Memo ICBR

Coursework approval manual

Allied Health and Human Performance Course Review Template

Criteria 1.8: Collaboration activities

Program advisory committee member list

Program advisory committee terms of reference

Program advisory committee agenda November 2022

Program advisory committee meeting minutes from November 2022

Program advisory committee agenda May 2023

Program advisory committee meeting minutes from May 2023

Criteria 1.9: Marketing/promotional materials, course structure, course guides, web information

Allied Health and Human Performance quarterly newsletter April 2023

Allied Health and Human Performance quarterly newsletter October 2023

Criteria 1.10: Subject outlines and resource lists

List of Medical Sonography program resources

Subject Outlines

Criteria 1.11: Guidelines that describe the content of any agreements for delivery

Criteria 1.12: Policies and processes for risk assessment and management

Risk Management Policy

Criteria 1.13: Policies or processes to manage business operations

Part Two Standard 2: Course Goals and Outcomes

Criteria 2.1: Educational philosophy, policies and processes governing review and improvement of the course

Criteria 2.2: Documentation showing national recognition of the course at a minimum of AQF level 8

Australian Qualifications Framework

Criteria 2.3: Details of course length and structure

2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 2 subjects per study period, semester 1 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General), 2 subjects per study period, semester 2 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 1 subject per study period, semester 1 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 1 subject per study period, semester 2 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 2 subjects per study period, semester 1 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 1 subject per study period, semester 1 start

2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 2 subjects per study period, semester 2 start

2023 Study plan Master of Medical Sonography (general)- 1 subject per study period

2023 Study plan Master of Medical Sonography (general)- 2 subjects per study period

Criteria 2.4: Clinical experience outcomes in relation to graduate competency outcomes

General sonography logbook

IGSO/ IMSO final clinical logbook audit instructions

ICBR breast sonography logbook

Criteria 2.5, 2.7: Course and Subject Outlines

Criteria 2.6: Structure and safeguard for international students

Criteria 2.8: Exit points for students

Criteria 2.9: Details of all possible pathways for graduates

Part Two Standard 3: Course content

Course alignment with professional competency standards

Criteria 3.2, 3.3

Criteria 3.4: Resource lists for each subject including facilities, equipment, support services and ratios of students to equipment

Part Two Standard 4: Resources and Staffing

Criteria 4.1: Academic staff are qualified to fulfill their teaching and assessment responsibilities, including current competence in area of teaching and assessment.

Criteria 4.2: In cases where an academic staff member's qualifications do not include sonography their qualifications are relevant to the education of the students (e.g., in cross-disciplinary/elective courses).

Criteria 4.3: Staffing arrangements around course delivery are aligned with course outcomes.

Criteria 4.4: Clinical supervisors are qualified to fulfill their supervisory responsibilities including current accreditation with ASAR where appropriate or being a suitably qualified and experienced medical practitioner.

Sonography student's InPlace user guide

FS23 Student Placement Insurance Form

Criteria 4.5: The staff to student ratios for all learning and assessment activities, are adequate to enable students to achieve the graduate competency outcomes.

Criteria 4.6 and 4.7 The monitoring of staff performance including ongoing academic staff development and professional development programs

Professional development of staff

Criteria 4.8: The design, size, state and currency of equipment and resources enable the achievement of the clinical and educational objectives of the course.

Resource list for sonography courses

Criteria 4.9: Clinical supervisors are provided with support from the course provider to structure and deliver an effective clinical learning experience in the workplace.

2024 Clinical supervisor's handbook

Part Two Standard 5: Teaching and Learning

Criteria 5,1, 5.2 and 5.3

Critera 5.4: A correspondence between content, clinical application, competency achievement and teaching and learning strategies.

Correspondence between content, clinical application, competency achievement and teaching and learning strategies

Criteria 5.5: An understanding of current Australian and international best practice teaching and learning approaches that are then reflected in the delivery of the course.

Criteria 5.6: A commitment to the development of graduates who are safe and competent for entry-level practice.

Criteria 5.7: Learning in the clinical environment is supervised in order to ensure that acceptable standards of patient care are maintained including accurate and complete record keeping is undertaken.

Criteria 5.8: A commitment to the development of graduates who have the desire and capacity to continue to learn throughout their careers and understand their professional responsibility for their continuing competence.

Criteria 5.9: Teaching and learning approaches that promote communication, collaboration, research and leadership skills expected of accredited sonographers.

Criteria 5.10: Interprofessional learning and practice is encouraged.

Criteria 5.11: An appropriate use of evidence based simulated learning in relevant areas of the curricula.

Criteria 5.12: Varied and relevant learning experiences that accomodate differences in student learning styles.

Part Two Standard 6: Assessment

Criteria 6.1: Graduates achieve each graduate competency outcome on completion of the course.

UniSA authentic assessment project

Criteria 6.2 and 6.3: The type, level and number of formative and summative assessments give valid, reliable, enhancing and timely indications of student progress towards the achievement of the graduate competency outcomes.

Criteria 6.4 and 6.5: A variety of assessment contexts are used to ensure the demonstration of competency in a diverse range of clinical settings and cases. and to demonstrate skills, knowledge and behaviours that underpin quality sonographic practice

Assessments for RADY5030 Ultrasound Physic and Instrumentation

Assessments for RADY5024 Professional Issues for Sonographers

Assessments for RADY5013 Abdominal Sonography

Assessments for RADY5015 Superficial Parts Sonography

Assessments for RADY5016 Vascular Sonography

Assessments for RADY5014 Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography

Assessments for RADY5029 Musculoskeletal Sonography

Assessments for RADY5026 Clinical Sonography Portfolio

Assessments for RADY5002 Breast Sonography

Assessments for RADY5003 Mammography

Assessments for RADY5025 Advanced Musculoskeletal Sonography

Assessments for RADY5031 Advanced Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography

Assessments for RADY5034 Advanced Vascular Sonography

Criteria 6.6: Procedural fairness, validity, reliability, and transparency of assessment is assured.

Allied Health and Human Performance Moderation of Assessment Guidelines

Criteria 6.7: The course provider remains ultimately accountable for the assessment of students in relation to all clinical assessment.

Criteria 6.8: Grading policies and explicit grading criteria must be available to the student and linked to the course learning and performance objectives.

Criteria 6.9: Credit transfer and the recognition of prior learning (RPL) is consistent with both the AQF and the expected outcomes of relevant regulatory authorities.

UniSA RPL policy

Criteria 6.10: The equivalence of course outcomes for courses accredited by ASAR and delivered by the course provider in all delivery modes in which the course is offered.

Part Two Standard 7: Research and Scholarship

Criteria 7.1: It fosters a culture of critical inquiry and innovation appropriate to the educational objectives of its courses among its staff and students.

Criteria 7.2: Academic staff use current research in teaching and learning.

UniSA ALH Course Review Template

Criteria 7.3: Academic staff are actively engaged in research and/or scholarship.

Criteria 7.4: Students develop an understanding of all aspects of critical inquiry and skills in undertaking and applying research to their practice.

Critical inquiry and skills in undertaking and applying research to their practice

Criteria 7.5: Students develop an understanding of the ethics of research.

Part Two Standard 8: Evaluation and Review

Criteria 8.1: Course stakeholders are involved in the annual review of the course's educational effectiveness and determining the extent to which the purpose and educational objectives are being achieved.

Criteria 8.2: Quality assurance processes operate and assist in determining the extent to which it is producing outcomes consistent with the courses purpose and educational objectives.

Criteria 8.3: It considers and evaluates the quality of outcomes achieved (including rates of student retention, graduation, and employment or transition to further education) by benchmarking against appropriate comparators.

Criteria 8.4 and 8.5: It takes steps to improve student outcomes as needed and in response to regular reviews including involving course stakeholders

Appendix 1: Required Graduate Competency Outcomes for General Sonography Courses

Appendix 2: Self Study Report

2023 ASAR Self Study report

Appendix 3: Course Outline

Appendix 4: Subject Outlines

IGSO/IMSO/ICBR RADY5024 Professional Issues

IGSO/IMSO/ICBR RADY5030 Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation

IGSO/IMSO RADY5013 Abdominal Sonography

IGSO/IMSO RADY5015 Superficial Parts Sonography

IGSO/IMSO RADY5016 Vascular Sonography

IGSO/IMSO RADY5014 Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography

IGSO/IMSO RADY5029 Musculoskeletal Sonography

IGSO/IMSO RADY5026 Clinical Sonography Portfolio

IMSO RADY5025 Advanced Musculoskeletal Sonography

IMSO RADY5027 Fetal Echo

IMSO RADY5034 Advanced Vascular Sonography

IMSO RADY5031 Advanced Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography

IMSO HLTH5002 Health Ethics

IMSO HLTH6014 Research Design and Development

IMSO NURS5152 Quantitative Design for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Research

IMSO NURS5153 Research for Advancing Nursing and Health Care

IMSO REHB 5118 Allied Health Research Evidence Translation

IMSO/ICBR RADY5002 Breast Sonography

ICBR RADY5003 Mammography

Appendix 5: Professional Profile Nominated Workplace Supervisor

Workplace supervisor form S Lundy

Workplace supervisor form S O'Hara

Workplace supervisor form K Paddick

Appendix 6: Staff Qualifications

Maureen Phillips

Maureen Pachulicz

Appendix 7: Declaration

Declaration form

Appendix 8 - Applicant's Evidence Attachments Checklist

Evidence attachments checklist

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ACDT

Australian Qualifications Framework

Completion requirements

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