Information concerning Macquarie University's assessment policy is available at http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. Grade descriptors and other information concerning grading requirements are contained in Schedule 1 of the Macquarie University Assessment Policy. A description of the Coarse Grading used in this unit is provided on iLearn.

To pass this unit, students must demonstrate sufficient evidence of achievement of the learning outcomes. Further details for each assessment task will be available on iLearn, including marking rubrics.

All final grades in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences are determined by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Assessment Committee, and are approved by the Faculty Board. They are not the sole responsibility of the Unit Convenor.  Students will be awarded one of these grades plus a Standardised Numerical Grade (SNG). The SNG is not necessarily a summation of the individual assessment components. The final grade and SNG that are awarded reflect the corresponding grade descriptor in Schedule 1 of the Assessment Policy. If there is a lack of sufficient evidence demonstrating that a student has met the required level of achievement in all learning outcomes they will be awarded a Fail grading with an assigned mark of 49 or less.

Extensions for Assessment Tasks

Applications for assessment task extensions must be submitted via www.ask.mq.edu.au. For further details please refer to the Disruption to Studies Policy available at https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration/disruption-to-studies

Professional Expectations for MD Students: Professionalism is a key capability embedded in the Macquarie MD. Professional Behaviour Notifications (PBN) which can be a breach (PBNB) or a commendation (PBNC) may be awarded. PBNs will be recorded in the student's portfolio. As part of developing professionalism, Macquarie MD students are expected to attend all small group interactive sessions including clinical, practical, laboratory and team-based learning activities. If attendance is deemed to be of concern, the student will be referred to the Lead (Student Professionalism) for remediation, subsequent monitoring, and recording in the portfolio. Similarly, as part of developing professionalism, Macquarie MD students are expected to submit all work by the due date. Late submission without prior approved extension will result in a professional behaviour notification- breach (PBNB) in the portfolio.

Late Submission of Work - Information for DPT Students:

All assignments which are officially received after the due date, and where no extension has been granted by the unit convenor or course director, will incur a deduction of 10% for the first day, and 10% for each subsequent day including the actual day on which the work is received. Assessments received 5 days or more beyond the due date, without an approved extension, will be awarded a maximum of 50% of the overall assessment marks. Weekends and public holidays are included. For example:

Hurdle Assessment

In this unit, the Clinical Placement Logbook (AT3) is a hurdle assessment. This is a requirement for an activity for which a minimum level of performance is a condition of passing the unit in which it occurs. A student who has obtained a SNG over 50, yet fails the hurdle assessment, fails the unit. Please see Macquarie University's Assessment Policy for more information about hurdle assessment tasks.

Teaching and Learning Strategy

This unit integrates the development of Evidence-based and Inter-professional Health Care skills in lectures and tutorials with clinical application in the Community Clinical Placement. Lectures will provide foundation knowledge, using a variety of delivery modes, including face-to-face lectures, online lectures and Connected Curriculum modules. Tutorials will give students the opportunity to develop practical skills in the key topics, such as formulating clinical questions, searching electronic databases and critical appraisal of evidence. By integration of these skills with real-life clinical examples from the students' experiences on their Community Clinical Placement, students will develop the ability to implement Evidence-Based Health Care in clinical practice.

Inter-professional Learning and Teaching

In this unit, students will have a unique opportunity to work together with inter-professional peers across the Doctor of Physiotherapy and Doctor of Medicine courses on their Community Clinical Placements. Lectures and tutorials will be conducted with students from both courses together in the learning spaces, to facilitate inter-professional team work and understanding. The unit is delivered by an inter-professional team, including health professionals, academics and clinicians with expertise in medicine, physiotherapy, psychology and other clinical backgrounds. 

Attendance

Professionalism is a key capability embedded in the Macquarie MD and DPT courses. As part of developing professionalism, students are expected to attend all small group interactive sessions including tutorials. If attendance is deemed to be of concern, this will be referred to the Lead (Student Professionalism) for remediation, subsequent monitoring, and recording.

Unit materials and readings

The textbooks for the unit are:

• Strauss et al. Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach it. 4th or 5th Edition.
• Herbert et al. Evidence-based Physiotherapy. 2nd Edition 

Copies of these books are available in the MQ library and in the co-op bookshop. Weekly readings will come from journal articles and a range of text book chapters. Most weekly readings will be available on iLearn (Unit Readings and Access to Papers) or MQ Library e-reserve.

Technology and Equipment

On-campus: Teaching rooms are equipped with state of art audio-visual and ICT equipment, internet connection, high quality video cameras and LCD screens. Students are advised to bring their own electronic device (eg laptop) to all tutorials.

Off-campus: To study optimally when off campus you will need to have access to a reliable internet connection to retrieve unit information & at times to submit assessment tasks via iLearn

MEDI8102 is an inter-professional unit, delivered to students in both MD and DPT courses. The unit has been combined from units in 2019 named MEDI912 (Evidence-Based and Inter-Professional Healthcare 1) and PHTY804 (Evidence-Based Healthcare).

In response to student feedback, and review of the unit by the teaching team, clinical education team, and learning and teaching specialists in the faculty, the following major changes have been made to the unit:

• Assessment tasks have been revised and streamlined to better align with the Community Clinical Placement experiences of students and to reduce student workload. 
• An additional 11 hours of lecture content will be delivered in online format, rather than face-to-face