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2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023

Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to integrate university studies with experience of professional practice in a biomedical setting. Students will practise and extend knowledge and skills to an applied area of biomedical science – education, pathology or research. Students will also collate their capabilities in preparation to enter the health workforce.

Unit content

  1. Careers – The recruitment process and securing a job
  2. Interprofessional and Evidence-based Practice in Healthcare
  3. Reflective Practice, Self-care, and Emotional Intelligence
  4. Introduction to Transfusion Science in the Workplace
  5. Lab Skills Revision

Placement 90 hours

 

Learning outcomes

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:
1use discipline knowledge and laboratory skills to analyse case studies holistically
2apply appropriate methodologies to formulate a topic of enquiry and prepare a report for a biomedical setting
3construct a professional employment strategy
4critically reflect on own learning and professional competence in the biomedical setting

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

  1. use discipline knowledge and laboratory skills to analyse case studies holistically
  2. apply appropriate methodologies to formulate a topic of enquiry and prepare a report for a biomedical setting
  3. construct a professional employment strategy
  4. critically reflect on own learning and professional competence in the biomedical setting

Teaching and assessment

Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every teaching period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Southern Cross University employs different teaching methods within units to provide students with the flexibility to choose the mode of learning that best suits them. SCU academics strive to use the latest approaches and, as a result, the learning modes and materials may change. The most current information regarding a unit will be provided to enrolled students at the beginning of the teaching period.

Fee information

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