Choosing your courses
2. Placement courses
A placement course is any course that requires you undertake a period of practical, work-related experience, usually in a location external to UQ.
Placement courses are also called:
- work placements
- internships
- industry study
- clinical practice
- practicums
- fieldwork
- clinical placements
- practical work
- teaching practice, or
- industry experience.
Placement courses are designed to help you practice and develop your professional skills in a real-life setting.
Placement management system
InPlace is a web system for managing your program-related placement activities. Manage and view all your tasks and schedules in one location.
Blue Cards
If a placement course involves working with children (i.e. anyone under 18 years), all students – domestic or international, undergraduate or postgraduate – have to undergo a Blue Card Check.
You can't undertake a placement until you have a valid Blue Card.
It is your responsibility to complete a Blue Card application and to submit it directly to your school or faculty. Please don't send your application to the State Government department.
Students don't have to pay a fee for a Blue Card.
Some programs make holding a Blue Card a condition of enrolment. This requirement will be outlined in your program requirements.
Submit your Blue Card application as early as possible, because processing can take some time. More information is available from:
Health and Behavioural SciencesMedicine Education
Fitness to practise
During placements, and in other areas of your study, you must meet appropriate standards of:
- performance
- compliance
- health.
For more information about these standards, see the Supporting Students' Fitness to Study page.
Insurance
The University provides accidental injury, public liability, and travel insurance to enrolled students who are undertaking compulsory placement courses in a UQ program.
See the University Insurance page for more information.
More information
It is your responsibility to read the Work Integrated Learning and Work Experience Policy.
This policy outlines the expectations about conduct while you are on placements, and the University's obligations to you.
Issues involving your fitness to practise are managed through the Fitness to Practise Policy.
Please note that engaging in improper behaviour during a course placement may also be treated as student misconduct.
For specific questions relating to a course placement, contact an advisor in your school or faculty.