PHAR5723: Immunology and Cancer

• Tutorial assessments: The tutorials are designed to help students integrate and apply the knowledge and skills acquired in lectures and other related activities, in the management of patients’ health needs and problems, and other clinical issues they are likely to encounter as a practising pharmacist. The tutorials will emphasise the application of ‘processes’ in practising as a pharmacist, especially communication processes incorporating information gathering, information processing, and information delivery. The students are expected to do pre-work prior to the tutorial. Tutorials will make up 20% of the Unit of Study mark, with 10 marks allocated for two HMR report/letters, 5 marks for tutorial quizzes (3 quizzes over the semester) and 5 marks for tutorial participation i.e., must complete pre-work, attend tutorial, participate in group discussions and behave in a professional manner. 
   
• No use of AI tools (Final Exam, OSCE)
  The use of automated writing tools and generative artificial intelligence is prohibited in this assessment. You are not allowed to use AI or any other software to create information or answers, to alter your own original writing, or to generate or modify text from other sources. This includes translation software, editing/paraphrasing software and other generative artificial intelligence tools.
  Unapproved use is considered a breach of the Academic Integrity Policy and may result in penalties, which can include a fail for the assessment.
   
• AI tools permitted (All other assessments)
  The use of AI tools is optional. You are permitted to use automated writing tools and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate your learning and completion of this assignment.  Please adhere to the following guidelines:
  -    Do not enter confidential, personal, copyrighted or otherwise sensitive information into any AI tool.
  -    Do not rely on the accuracy of outputs. You remain responsible for your work. This means you must independently verify and edit AI-generated content to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and suitability of the output.
  -    If you use these tools, you must be aware of their limitations, biases, and propensity for fabrication.
  Your final submitted work must be your own, original work. You must acknowledge any use of AI tools that have been used in the assessment, and any material that forms part of your submission, must be appropriately referenced. For guidance on how to reference and acknowledge the use of AI, please refer to the AI in Education Canvas site.
  You are advised to keep copies of the prompts you provided and AI outputs as evidence of your research and writing process. This allows you to produce an accurate acknowledgement of AI use when you submit your work. This can be requested by the unit coordinator if there is any uncertainty about the originality of your work.

• In this assessment you are allowed to use automated writing tools and artificial intelligence (AI) for the following purposes:
  Editing assistance - You may use automated writing or AI tools such as Cogniti to provide feedback on your work and suggest readability improvements to your text in terms of grammar and expression. You cannot use generative AI tools to generate content.
  Generating ideas for assessment - You may use AI tools such as Cogniti to brainstorm initial ideas and approaches for completing your assignment. However, you must develop or edit those ideas to a substantial degree to ensure your submission is your own, original work. 
  Creating media for assessment - You may use AI tools such as Cogniti to generate media that you use as part of your submission.
  Suggesting a structure or outline - You may use AI tools such as Cogniti to help you draft an outline for your work.
  Searching and summarising literature- You may use AI tools such as Cogniti to find and summarise research articles. The generated summary should not be included in the submission. You need to incorporate the scholarship yourself into your submission. 
  Your final submitted work must be your own, original work. You must acknowledge any use of AI tools that have been used in the assessment, and any material that forms part of your submission, must be appropriately referenced. For guidance on how to reference and acknowledge the use of AI, please refer to the AI in Education Canvas site.
  Please adhere to the following guidelines: 
  Do not enter confidential, personal, copyrighted or otherwise sensitive information into any AI tool. If you use these tools, you must be aware of their limitations, biases, and propensity for fabrication. 
  Do not rely on the accuracy of outputs. You remain responsible for your work. This means you must independently verify and edit AI-generated content to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and suitability of the output.
  Failure to declare the use of AI tools is considered a breach of the Academic Integrity Policy and may result in penalties, which can include a fail for the assessment.
  You are advised to keep copies of the prompts you provided and AI outputs as evidence of your research and writing process. This allows you to produce an accurate acknowledgement of AI use when you submit your work. This can be requested by the unit coordinator if there is any uncertainty about the originality of your work.

• OSCE: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a role-play assessment of communication skills and clinical knowledge competence as a pharmacist. It is linked to 3 therapeutic units PHAR5721, PHAR5722 and PHAR5723. Students will be given corresponding cases to prepare prior to the assessment. On OSCE day, each student will sit three stations; each station corresponds to one unit of study (PHAR5721, PHAR5722, PHAR5723). Within each station, each student sits two cases - a patient case (communicating with an examiner role-playing a pseudo-patient) and a doctor case (communicating with an examiner role-playing a pseudo-doctor). Each student must pass the average of both cases per station to pass the corresponding unit of study (ie: obtain 50% on the average of both cases per station).
   
• Written examination: The written exam will comprise a mixture of both multiple-choice and short-answer questions. These questions will include all content covered in lectures and tutorials and tutorial preparation materials. You must pass (50%) in the written exam to pass the unit of study

Detailed information for each assessment can be found on Canvas.

Supplementary Yr assessments: Students may be offered re-assessment of compulsory-to-pass assessments in the Main and Replacement exam periods as described in the relevant local provisions. 

Repeating students: Exemption from components (tutorials) for students repeating PHAR5723 will not be granted.