Postgraduate Veterinary Science
番茄社区 Inherent Requirements for the Graduate Certificate of Tropical Veterinary Science (75211), Graduate Diploma of Tropical Veterinary Science (75207), Master of Tropical Veterinary Science (75204), Graduate Certificate of Animal Sciences (118711), Graduate Diploma of Animal Sciences (118706) and Master of Animal Sciences (118704)
番茄社区 is committed to enhancing student access, participation and success in higher education and embracing the diversity of the communities we serve. The inherent requirements listed for each course are designed to assist prospective students and all current students to make informed decisions for study.
Inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are the identified abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours that must be demonstrated, during the learning experience, to successfully complete a course. These abilities, attributes, skills, and behaviours preserve the academic integrity of the University’s learning, assessment, and accreditation processes, and where applicable, meet the standards of a profession.
Reasonable adjustments
番茄社区 assists students who are experiencing a disability to participate in this course, and achieve the inherent requirements of the course, on the same basis as someone who is not experiencing a disability. To do this, 番茄社区 works with our students and placement providers to develop agreed reasonable adjustments in accordance with the Student Disability Policy.
A reasonable adjustment is an arrangement, support, or modification, agreed in an Access Plan to enable participation in learning and achievement of course requirements. Contact 番茄社区’s Accessibility Services to discuss possible adjustments. Please note that the process of negotiating and implementing reasonable adjustments may take several weeks.
In assessing whether an adjustment is reasonable, the University is entitled, in accordance with the Disability Education Standards, to maintain the inherent requirements of a course. If inherent requirements cannot be met with reasonable adjustments, the University provides guidance regarding other study options.
How to interpret the inherent requirements
Inherent requirements are presented below as domains and sub-domains and contain the following information:
- The definition of the inherent requirement
- A rationale as to why it is an inherent requirement
- Examples of the knowledge, skills, and capabilities that are required to satisfy the inherent requirements of this course.
The inherent requirements for this course should be read in conjunction with the Course and Subject Handbook.
The inherent requirements of this course are:
Inherent Requirement | Compliance with Australian Law and professional regulations. |
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Rationale | Knowledge, understanding, and compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements are necessary in order to reduce the risk of harm to self and others, including animals, in an academic, clinical and professional settings. Compliance with these professional regulations and the Australian Law ensures students are both responsible and accountable for their practice. |
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Inherent Requirement | Ethical & professional behaviour in academic, clinical and professional environments, which include farms and industry facilities. |
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Rationale | Compliance with standards, codes, guidelines and policies that facilitate safe, competent interactions and relationships for students, people and the animals they engage with, in the many environments of the veterinary profession, is required for the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of all. |
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Inherent Requirement | Compliance with current scope of practice, work health and safety, infection control and appropriate responses to clinical and equipment alarm systems sufficient to meet patients, animals, owners and others’ care needs. |
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Rationale | Compliance with current scope of practice, workplace health and safety, infection control and bio-safety considerations and effective and timely response to alarm systems are required to provide safe environments for students, staff, animals and others. |
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Knowledge and cognitive skills
Inherent Requirement | Knowledge acquisition, utilisation and retention spanning and drawing together all coursework subjects. Cognitive skills for focus, memory, attention to detail, theoretical deliberation, and practical functioning sufficient to meet professional and health care. |
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Rationale | Understanding and retention of coursework information and the effective processing of this information is required for appropriate, safe and effective delivery of health care needs. |
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Metacognition
Inherent Requirement | Awareness of own thinking, and skills to reflect, evaluate, adapt and implement new cognitive strategies for improved learning, health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | Understanding and ongoing learning about oneself as an instrument in health care is required for safe and effective health care and veterinary services. |
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Inherent Requirement | English literacy skills that allow the creation and interpretation of clear meaning for patient care through a range of symbols and English language text. |
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Rationale | Information can be delivered by many different modes and competent literacy skills are essential to provide appropriate, safe and effective delivery of health care and professional practice. |
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Inherent Requirement | Accurate processing and reasoning with numbers and numerical concepts for health care and professional practice decisions. |
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Rationale | Competent reasoning and reliable accuracy with numerical concepts are essential for safe and effective health care and professional practice. |
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Verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Verbal communication in English to a standard that allows fluid, clear, and comprehensible two-way discussions for health care and professional practice, tailored to the local English-speaking audiences. |
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Rationale | Effective verbal communication, in English, with clients, academic, professional, clinical staff and peers is required for effective learning and to provide safe and effective delivery of health care and professional practice. |
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Non-verbal communication
Inherent Requirement | Non-verbal communication skills that enable respectful communication with others to meet health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | The ability to recognise, interpret and respond to non-verbal cues, to communicate with congruent and respectful non-verbal behaviour, and to be sensitive to individual and/or cultural variations in non-verbal communication is essential for safe and effective practice. |
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Written communication
Inherent Requirement | Ability to produce English text to a standard that provides clear and professional-level communication for patient care, with language usage and style tailored to the targeted recipients. |
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Rationale | Effective communication in English text is required to demonstrate applied skills in academic writing conventions and in sustained and organised academic argument and provide safe and effective delivery of health care and professional practice. |
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Visual
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with visual inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | Elements in the working and teaching environment are delivered by visual means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective professional practice. |
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Auditory
Inherent Requirement | Ability to interact with auditory inputs sufficiently to manage learning environments and to meet patient care needs. |
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Rationale | Elements in the learning and working environments are delivered by auditory means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Tactile
Inherent Requirement | Ability to respond to tactile input and provide tactile interaction sufficient to meet health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | Elements in the working environment are detected and measured by tactile means, and the ability to learn from or respond to these inputs is required to provide safe and effective practice. |
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Gross motor ability
Inherent Requirement | Strength, range of motion, coordination and mobility sufficient to meet health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | A wide range of physical actions in a time-constrained environment is required to provide safe and effective practice. This will include working in farms, stock yards and industry facilities. |
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Fine motor ability
Inherent Requirement | Manual dexterity and fine motor skills sufficient to meet health care and professional practice. |
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Rationale | A wide range of fine-motor manual tasks in a time-constrained environment are required to provide safe and effective health care and professional practice as well as perform accurate tactile diagnostics. |
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Inherent Requirement | Sustained physical, cognitive and psychosocial performance sufficient to provide safe and complete heath care in a time-constrained environment. |
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Rationale | A range of complex, multi-component or extended patient care tasks carried out over a period of time and in a time-constrained environments is required to provide safe and effective health care and professional practice. |
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Inherent Requirement | Behaviour that adapts to changing situations sufficiently to maintain safe and complete health care, and instigates self-care consistent with professional expectations. |
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Rationale | Behavioural adaptation is required to manage personal emotional responses as an individual and within teams in changing and unpredictable environments, including emergency situations and times of human and animal distress. Students will also be required to adapt their behaviour appropriately during times of additional stressors in their own lives, whether this adaptation involves ways of continuing to engage with their role or withdrawing for self-care for a period. |
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