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School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Advanced Clinical Examination and Leadership for Paramedics

  • Unit Code

    PST6110

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Judy SHEAHAN

Description

This unit prepares the student to work as an independent practitioner at an Advanced Paramedic level with emphasis on the development of advanced clinical examination skills. Students learn the structured approach for advanced clinical examinations and further develop knowledge in leadership, decision making and mentoring practices. Students explore the importance of human factors and how these impact upon patient care and clinical decision making.

Unit Content

  1. Paramedic clinical leadership.
  2. Models for clinical supervision – preceptorship, mentoring, clinical facilitation.
  3. How human factors influence health outcomes in medicine.
  4. Influence of clinician judgment and decision making on patient outcomes.
  5. Principles of advanced history taking.
  6. General principles of advanced physical examination.
  7. Advanced physical examination of cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and endocrine systems.
  8. Correlation of the physical signs and disease of the cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, gastrointestinal, genitourinary and endocrine systems.
  9. Rationale and implications of clinical investigations.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students are required to actively participate in online discussion activities during the semester. Students evaluate the breath of leadership and mentor responsibilities required in contemporary advanced paramedic practice to inform their ongoing professional practice. Problem based learning tasks will be used to develop clinical decision making. Case scenarios will provide opportunities for students to evaluate the impact of human factors in medicine. Advanced clinical capabilities will be demonstrated using digital technology.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioParamedic Clinical Leadership30%
PresentationAdvanced Clinical Examination30%
Case StudyClinical Decision Making40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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