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Part One Course Overview
File Section 1: Applicants Details
File Section 2: Course Details
File Confirmation of Re-Accreditation of Sonography Courses
Forum Announcements
Part Two Standard 1: Governance
Criteria 1.1, 1.2, 1.4
Folder Self study reports
File Postgraduate course structure IGSO/IMSO (General), ICBR
File 2023 Employer satisfaction survey
Folder Course Activity Reports
Folder Approved Course Statements
Folder Program Dashboards - ICBR, IGSO, IMSO Courses
Criteria 1.3: Not applicable
Criteria 1.5: Governance arrangements for the provider and the Course
File UniSA ALH Academic Unit Organisational Chart and Governance Commitee Structures
File 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
File IGSO and IMSO ERR
File Re-accreditation Memo IGSO/IMSO
File ICBR ERR
File Re-accreditation Memo ICBR
File Coursework approval manual
File Allied Health and Human Performance Course Review Template
Criteria 1.8: Collaboration activities
File Program advisory committee member list
File Program advisory committee terms of reference
File Program advisory committee agenda November 2022
File Program advisory committee meeting minutes from November 2022
File Program advisory committee agenda May 2023
File Program advisory committee meeting minutes from May 2023
Criteria 1.9: Marketing/promotional materials, course structure, course guides, web information
File Allied Health and Human Performance quarterly newsletter April 2023
File Allied Health and Human Performance quarterly newsletter October 2023
Criteria 1.10: Subject outlines and resource lists
File List of Medical Sonography program resources
Folder 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
URL 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
File Australian Qualifications Framework
Criteria 2.3: Details of course length and structure
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 2 subjects per study period, semester 1 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General), 2 subjects per study period, semester 2 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 1 subject per study period, semester 1 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Diploma of Medical Sonography (General) - 1 subject per study period, semester 2 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 2 subjects per study period, semester 1 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 1 subject per study period, semester 1 start
File 2023 Study plan Graduate Certificate of Breast Imaging - 2 subjects per study period, semester 2 start
File 2023 Study plan Master of Medical Sonography (general)- 1 subject per study period
File 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
File General sonography logbook
File IGSO/ IMSO final clinical logbook audit instructions
File 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
Criteria 3.1
File 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.
File Sonography student's InPlace user guide
File 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
File 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.
File 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.
File 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.
File 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.
File 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
Folder Assessments for RADY5030 Ultrasound Physic and Instrumentation
Folder Assessments for RADY5024 Professional Issues for Sonographers
Folder Assessments for RADY5013 Abdominal Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5015 Superficial Parts Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5016 Vascular Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5014 Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5029 Musculoskeletal Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5026 Clinical Sonography Portfolio
Folder Assessments for RADY5002 Breast Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5003 Mammography
Folder Assessments for RADY5025 Advanced Musculoskeletal Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5031 Advanced Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography
Folder Assessments for RADY5034 Advanced Vascular Sonography
Criteria 6.6: Procedural fairness, validity, reliability, and transparency of assessment is assured.
File 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.
File UniSA RPL policy
Folder RPL examples
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.
File 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.
File 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
Appendices
Appendix 1: Required Graduate Competency Outcomes for General Sonography Courses
Appendix 2: Self Study Report
File 2023 ASAR Self Study report
Appendix 3: Course Outline
File Course outline
Appendix 4: Subject Outlines
File IGSO/IMSO/ICBR RADY5024 Professional Issues
File IGSO/IMSO/ICBR RADY5030 Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5013 Abdominal Sonography
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5015 Superficial Parts Sonography
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5016 Vascular Sonography
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5014 Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5029 Musculoskeletal Sonography
File IGSO/IMSO RADY5026 Clinical Sonography Portfolio
File IMSO RADY5025 Advanced Musculoskeletal Sonography
File IMSO RADY5027 Fetal Echo
File IMSO RADY5034 Advanced Vascular Sonography
File IMSO RADY5031 Advanced Obstetric and Gynaecologic Sonography
File IMSO HLTH5002 Health Ethics
File IMSO HLTH6014 Research Design and Development
File IMSO NURS5152 Quantitative Design for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Research
File IMSO NURS5153 Research for Advancing Nursing and Health Care
File IMSO REHB 5118 Allied Health Research Evidence Translation
File IMSO/ICBR RADY5002 Breast Sonography
File ICBR RADY5003 Mammography
Appendix 5: Professional Profile Nominated Workplace Supervisor
File Workplace supervisor form S Lundy
File Workplace supervisor form S O'Hara
File Workplace supervisor form K Paddick
Appendix 6: Staff Qualifications
File Rebecca Perry
File Sandy Maranna
File Angela Farley
File Nayana Parange
File Kate Lamb
File Jessie Childs
File Emilie Rasheed
File Shae Maple
File Maureen Phillips
File Bronwyn Knight
File Mary Sagris
File Jenny Parkes
File Andrew Grant
File Sarah Saha
File Cheryl Urek
File Emma Godrik
File Louise Smith
File Julia Stibbs
File Kate Russo
File Kim Fitzgerald
File Casey Smedley
File Maureen Pachulicz
File Marie Williams
File Kathy Hill
File Dan Walkley
File Connal Lee
File Neil Bretana
Appendix 7: Declaration
File Declaration form
Appendix 8 - Applicant's Evidence Attachments Checklist
File Evidence attachments checklist

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Confirmation of Re-Accreditation of Sonography Courses

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Extract of minutes from Academic Board meeting, 22nd July 2022, confirming and approving internal re-accreditation of ICBR, IGSO, and IMSO courses. 

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Click Program Evaluation and Reaccreditation Review Reports.pdf link to view the file.
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