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PTY5105 · Advanced physiotherapy clinical skills and project
2027 Handbook12 credit pointsLevel 5Department of Physiotherapy
Overview
This final unit will allow consolidation of advanced clinical practice. Skills in critical decision-making and clinical reasoning ability for the management of complex conditions will be emphasised. Problem solving and advanced clinical skills within the context of client or family-centred practice will be explored. Learning will be experienced in the online classroom environment with individually tailored clinical experiences.
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Peninsula | First semester | Teaching mostly conducted outside of a classroom/campus environment and in a block (IMMERS-BLK) |
| Peninsula | Second semester | Teaching mostly conducted outside of a classroom/campus environment and in a block (IMMERS-BLK) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Contribution to 4 x discussion boards | Exercise | — | Competency |
| 2 | Professional portfolio (1,000 words) | Artefact | 10% | — |
| 3 | Clinical Practice Journal (2,000 words) | Exercise | 25% | — |
| 4 | Project Oral (10 minutes) | Project | 10% | — |
| 5 | Project poster (400 - 600 words) | Artefact | 20% | — |
| 6 | Project report (2,500 to 3,000 words) | Project | 35% | Competency |
| 7 | Attendance requirement (individualised clinical experience; 80%) | Demonstration | — | Competency |
Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Requisites
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the key performance characteristics of an advanced practice physiotherapist.
- Critically evaluate the evidence underpinning relevant physiotherapy practice, including individual research studies, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.
- Answer a clinical question exploring an issue in advanced physiotherapy practice.
- Evaluate an intervention to address an issue in advanced physiotherapy practice.
- Summarise findings from a project and present them, consistent with the standards of a professional conference.
- Lead discussion of specific patient cases, with an advanced level of clinical reasoning.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of episodes of paediatric physiotherapy care.
- Apply the principles of reflective learning and self-assessment to develop your own professional learning goals and formulate a plan to meet those goals.
Workload
Approximately 12 hours per week of interaction with online lectures and course material, completion of assessment tasks and participation in online communications with other students and tutor, plus an equal amount of self-directed study time. An additional up to 5 days of individualised clinical experience will be scheduled.
| Activity | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tutorials | — |
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