gain a high level of ethical and interpersonal skills for interacting with patients from diverse backgrounds and cultures learn to effectively function as part of a healthcare team acquire and apply clinical reasoning, treatment and evaluation skills to basic and life sciences develop skills to undertake all routine diagnostic radiographic procedures learn to operate diagnostic radiographic instrumentation to optimise image quality and minimise radiation dose or other potential patient hazards develop skills in designing, implementation and management of quality assurance programs for medical imaging applications acquire professional attitudes and attributes as a reflective practitioner.

Admission Requirements Normal UC requirements for admission to an undergraduate course. Applicants may be required to participate in an interview process. The normal UC requirements for admission to undergraduate degrees are based on an entrance rank. A rank can be achieved by the following means: Year 12 ATAR other Australian Qualification work Experience overseas Qualification Additional Admission Requirements Police clearance checks Immunisation Current First Aid certificate Assumed Knowledge Assumed knowledge for entry is to HSC equivalent of Biology, Physics and Mathematics. Inherent Requirements: Clinical practice and/or clinical laboratories during the medical imaging course require students to: - be involved in encounters where students must physically interact with patients and/or other students coming from a range of ethnic, age, gender and disability backgrounds; - be physically capable to independently lift and move patients and equipment and to wear lead gowns (heavy) for extended periods of time; - be involved in patient encounters where patients may be severely injured or be at the end stage of terminal illnesses; - work in environments which may be highly stressful; - have vision able to visualise detail within medical images; - due to government requirements, wear clothing during clinical placements that does not cover the elbows and forearms; - attend clinical workplaces, for extended periods of time, in interstate, metropolitan, regional and rural areas. English Language Requirements: There are non-standard English language requirements for this course. To be eligible you must have an academic IELTS of 7.0 overall, or equivalent, with no band score below 7.0.