HMI204 - Foundation Principles and Application of Medical Imaging 4
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Semester 2: Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.250 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H309 |
| Prerequisite: | All of HMI201, HMI202 and HMI203 |
| Corequisite: | HMI205 |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 300 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | A minimum of 150 hours over the semester undertaking teaching, learning and assessment activities, including a minimum of four hours per week of lectures, practical experience (laboratory) activities and seminar (PBL) sessions. |
Content
HMI204 represents your Foundation Principles and Application of Medical Imaging unit for Semester 2 of Year 2 of the H309 (Medical Imaging) course and is a single unit of two credit points. In HMI204, we take a 'systems approach' to understanding the nervous system, setting the anatomical foundation for delivering safe, high-quality examinations in practice.
As a foundations subject, learning will be centred on the explanation of the structure and function of the human body, the use of discipline-specific nomenclature, exploring the scientific explanations underpinning disease and injury, and identification of essential anatomical structures, physiological processes, and pathologies on medical imaging.
HMI204 is a systems approach to the study of the nervous system.
• Week 1 will explore the fundamental concepts of the nervous system: Its cellular, structural, and functional organisation.
• We then break into our placement blocks for weeks 2-5 (Block 2) and weeks 6-9 (Block 1). We will in this time cover the spinal cord and spinal nerves, cerebrum and diencephalon, brainstem, and cranial nerves.
• Beyond the mid-semester break we will cover the cerebral vasculature, ventricles & CSF production, sensory pathways, somatic nervous system as well as special senses.
• Common cerebrovascular, neurodegenerative, demyelinating, and infective diseases of the CNS will be investigated using case studies in these content weeks, with keen focus on their appearance on medical imaging.
Unit Fee Information
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