222 Assessment Q & A

Dr. Gina Cleo & Dr. Sacha Kennedy

CRICOS CODE 00017B

 Clinical Practice Assessments: 20% of Year 2
CPA have been designed to accommodate the different learning exposure
of students within the subject MEDI12-202
In YR2, Clinical Practice assessments results are combined at end of year with written examinations
 MEDI12-202: MEDI12-203: MEDI12-201:
5% 10% 5%
Clinical Practice Objective Clinical Practice
Assessments Structured Clinical Assessments
• History-taking (HT) summative
Examination (OSCE)
assessment • Breaking Bad News (BBN)
• Physical examination skills (PES) • Multiple stations: designed to test summative assessment
summative assessment core competencies for progression to • History-taking (HT) summative
Year 3 assessment
• Each worth 2.5%
• Physical examination skills (PES)
• Will examine content from • Mixture of HT and PES
summative assessment
Haematological and/or Renal • Detailed information, support and
systems practise sessions during semester
 Summative Assessments

Date: W11(Hx)
W12(PES)
• Stations are tailored to suit an 8-minute time-frame
• Some elements of the history or examination will not be required
• The instructions will list what to include so read carefully
• At 8-minutes you will be asked synthesis of knowledge questions

Synthesis of knowledge questions
Learning throughout the block,
attendance to sessions
and use of the recommended
modules and resources will
prepare you for these questions
Take your time and think
about your answer before
you speak
Change your mindset from
talking to the patient to
talking to the examiner
This is the time to use
medical terminology and be
succinct
 Formative (Practice) Exam
Date: W10
Method: Open book, ‘non-secure’ using Examplify
Type: ~35 MCQs and SAQs
Duration: ~1 hour
• Timing starts when you enter the exam with the password
• Complete exam in one sitting – make sure you have time and no
interruptions for good practice
• You can access online resources and notes
• Designed to provide feedback on your learning strategies and knowledge
content to date – guide direction of future studies
• W11 Category report and questions with Rationale
• Gives you time to engage with academic educator if you have queries
 End of MEDI12-202 Written Examination:
• 15% Weighting
• Date: Tuesday 16th August
• Time: 9:30 am – 11.45 am

• 2 hours 15 minutes duration

• 110 points maximum:
~MCQ 70%
~SAQ 30% (includes Hot spot, Essay and Fill in the Blank)
~1 minute 14 seconds/point

• Held BYOD, secure mode using ExamSoft

 MEDI12-202 Exam Blueprint

Theme Weighting* Approximate Points

Science and Scholarship ~ 100 points

Theme
Weighting:
Health & Society / ~ 10 points
Written Professionalism & Leadership
Exam
Clinical Practice* Assessed in CPA format

TOTAL 110 points

*Integrated topics may be assessed in written exams e.g. gait, respiratory, anaemia, fatigue
taught during Clinical Practice – and reinforced, referred to during other teaching sessions
 Discipline Weighting

Anatomy ~ 20%

Discipline Physiology ~ 25%

Weighting of
Written Exam: Pathology ~ 25%
Science and
Scholarship Pharmacology ~ 15%
theme
Clinical aspects of…* ~ 15%

Evidence-Based Medicine EBM ~ 0%

100%
*Integrated topics may be assessed in written exams e.g. gait, low back pain, respiratory, anaemia,
fatigue taught during Clinical Practice – and reinforced, referred to during other teaching sessions
 MEDI12-202 Teaching Blocks

Cardiovascular Haematology Renal

5 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks
40% 25% 35%
 One day soon, you will be a doctor……..

Examinations may focus on current semester learning, but anything taught in the
Medical Program, relevant to the learning outcomes, is assessable in future
examinations

Things you have been taught in prior semesters will continue to be important
concepts to you as a doctor and will be built on in Years 3 learning and beyond
 v If you are asked for two (2) ‘things’, provide only two
- Academics will stop marking after the first two
responses
Exam Marking
Protocol v Please answer the questions asked, related to the
patient vignette provided – you do not get points for
sharing knowledge on the topic that is not directly
applied to the patient indicated

v Take care with your spelling – it increasingly matters

especially for pharmacology
 Exam details: Secure, invigilated Exam

Rules:
– Clear water bottles only
– We provide calculators – do not bring your own
– No phones, smart watches, calculators, non-transparent items
in the exam venue!
– Scrap paper provided – BYO pen

• BYO laptop/charger
– “Do the Five” before starting exam
 Before Exams: ‘Do the 5’
1. In Examplify, download the Exam on your device up to two days
prior to the scheduled exam date (needs internet).

2. Update and reboot your computer the night before the exam.

3. Bring your laptop/iPad fully charged and bring your charging

cord to the exam as back-up.

4. On Exam day, close down all other non-essential programs on

your device.

5. Turn off your anti-virus

 Anti-virus lesson:
• https://examsoft.force.com/etcommunity/s/
• Type ‘Antivirus” into the search bar
• Find your anti-virus program and learn to disable it

For trouble-free exams, turn off your antivirus for

the duration of the exam.
• Turn off before you open the exam
• Turn back on after submitting the exam
• The exam is held COMPLETELY OFFLINE so your
• device is not vulnerable during the exam
• We will remind you after the exam to turn back on
your anti-virus
Medical Program Rules of Assessment and Progression
To Pass Year 2 and Progress to Year 3

Achieve a score equal to or higher than the cumulative cut-score

across all examinations including written exams plus Clinical
Practice and OSCE assessments combined

Achieve a score equal to or higher than the cumulative cut-score

across all in-semester assessments

Achieve pass in all competency-based assessments

3.1 Meet attendance requirements – or you may not be permitted to

participate in the final examination/s
(Aligned to 3.3.4 Bond University Assessment Policy)
 • There are Resit exams only on completion of all Year 2 subjects.

• Regardless of results in non-progression semesters, students

continue in the program through to their progression semester.
This provides the opportunity to remediate poor performance in
examinations by doing better in subsequent semesters

Rules of • September Cohort: Progression semester = MEDI12-201 (after

completing MEDI12-202 and MEDI12-203)

Progression • May Cohort: Progression semester = MEDI12-203 (after completing

for Year 2 MEDI12-201 and MEDI12-202)

• BOE may identify students as Requiring Academic Support at the

end of MEDI12-201
• < Cut score in combined ISA
• < Cut score in combined Examinations
• Failure to achieve Competency
• Poor Attendance
Student Support for Examination Rules and
Processes

Medical Program Student Coordinator

Email: MED-SACoordinator@bond.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 5595 1454

Curriculum and Assessment Manager

Email: Med-assessment@bond.edu.au

If you have academic ‘queries’ - please ask the educator directly

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