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MRTY3122: Professional Issues and Leadership
2025 unit information
This unit of study explores Interprofessional collaboration and the ethical and legal requirements of medical radiation practice in Australia. Students participate in a university-wide activity designed to provide health professional students with the opportunity to develop collaboration in interprofessional teams. The unit of study develops students as health professionals by examining Australian Health Care System and ethical scenarios especially patients’ rights in a case-based approach to ethical, reflective and collaborative practice using key legislation as a framework for decision making and discussion. Students will learn of the integration between legal requirements, mandatory notifications and the code of conduct as required by Federal regulations and state legal requirements related to health professionals. The notions of leadership, culturally safe practice and patient advocacy will be explored.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Clinical Imaging |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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MRTY2104 and MRTY2108 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Discuss interprofessional collaborative practice, in all areas of radiography, including high-pressure environments.
- LO2. Apply knowledge of the Australian health care system, including provisions for medical radiation science practice, patient advocacy, safety framework, and the roles and scope of the professional and regulatory bodies associated with medical radiation sciences, in order to construct arguments and present information in both written and oral form.
- LO3. Apply knowledge of Australian health care law to medical radiation science case studies that integrate common issues relating to criminal and civil law, negligence, consent, confidentiality, error and apologies, in order to develop a written discussion of significant issues.
- LO4. Apply knowledge of ethical codes, principles and the rights of patients to medical radiation sciences case studies, in order to reach decisions which show responsibility and accountability, and an in-depth understanding of the bioethical principles underpinning medical radiation science practice.
- LO5. Examine leadership, advanced practice and professional/personal reflective practice within the medical radiation sciences context, and identify ongoing professional learning needs and opportunities, including knowledge of CPD requirements, in order to develop a personal pathway for life-long learning and/or frameworks for supporting skill development.
- LO6. Employ reflection to scrutinise personal experience of the BDR program in its entirety in order to develop a comprehensive evidence base of accomplishments (including personal learning skills development, achievement of graduate qualities, insight and successes around the MRPBA domains) within the scope of entry level DR practice, including a professional CV.
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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