All final grades are determined by a grading committee, in accordance with the Macquarie University Assessment Policy, and are not the sole responsibility of the Unit Convenor. Students will be awarded a final grade, which corresponds to the grade descriptors specified in the Assessment Procedure (clause 128). The final grade awarded is not necessarily a summation of the individual assessment components.

To pass this unit, students must demonstrate sufficient evidence of achievement of the learning outcomes, meet any ungraded requirements including professionalism, and achieve a final mark of 50 or better.

Grading of Assessments

You will receive a grade for each assessment within this unit. The grades awarded will reflect a holistic evaluation of the work against the criteria outlined within the corresponding assessment rubric. Numerical marks will be calculated for each assessment based on the following percentages, and rounded to the nearest full mark:

• High distinction (HD) – 95%
• Distinction (D) – 80%
• Credit (C) – 70%
• Pass (P) – 60%
• Pass threshold (P-) - 50%
• Fail (F) – 40%

Extensions for Assessment Tasks

Applications for assessment task extensions may be considered for short-term, unexpected, serious, and unavoidable circumstances affecting assessment. Applications must be submitted via www.ask.mq.edu.au . For further details please refer to the Special Considerations Policy available at https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration

Late Submission of Work

All assignments which are officially received after the due date, and where no extension has been granted by the Unit Convenor, may incur a deduction of 10% of the overall assessment weighting 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:

Assumed knowledge

This unit builds and integrates material from previous semesters, particularly clinical placements and evidence-based healthcare.

Learning and teaching strategy

This unit encompasses an active learning approach where you will be expected to purposefully engage in enhancing your own learning experience. Online modules will provide content and also incorporate interactive activities such as quizzes and forums. Online module content will be further built upon in tutorials. The teaching approach will be based on you developing a deep understanding of the principles and the ability to independently think critically and solve problems, with additional support through academic mentorship. The face-to-face teaching time within this unit is less than within previous units, with an expectation that you will engage more independently in your learning as well as integrating learning from the clinical experiences undertaken as part of this unit.

Unit organisation

This is a ten credit point unit run over the session. Within this session there will be approximately 14 hours of online content for you to work through independently, including preparatory activities for your tutorials. There is a 2 hr tutorial in Week 3 and Week 8, and 2 hours of academic mentorship available to support understanding of content and application to assessments. Furthermore, there are 70 hours of integrated clinical experiences in sports and workplace settings, with these experiences being imperative to the understanding of systems complexity. Further information is available in iLearn.

Attendance

In the Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences professionalism is a key capability embedded in all our programs. As part of developing professionalism, Faculty of Medicine, Health & Human Sciences students are expected to attend all small group interactive sessions including tutorials, clinical and laboratory practical sessions. 

All tutorials are scheduled in your individual timetable. The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/. You may make a request to your tutor to attend a different tutorial on a one-off basis for extenuating circumstances. You will also be able to select an appropriate time for your academic mentorship sessions from multiple times available in Week 9 and Week 12.

Failure to attend any learning and teaching activities, including tutorials and academic mentorship sessions, may impact your final results. It is your responsibility to contact the unit convenors by email to inform tutors if you are going to be absent.

Unit materials and readings

There is no compulsory textbook for this unit. Resources enhancing the content of this unit will be referred to throughout the unit and will come from a range of sources, including government reports, journal articles, and multimedia sources. Specific information will be provided on the unit iLearn site.

Technology and equipment

On-campus

Teaching rooms are equipped with state of art audio-visual and ICT equipment including iPads, internet connection, high quality video cameras and multiple LCD screens. 

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.

Consultation with staff 

All staff will be available for individual consultation. See iLearn for contact details.

The length of assessment task 1 (quality evaluation report) has been reduced in response to both staff and student feedback.