PTY5201 · Integrated practice

Overview

In this unit, you will focus on integrating the knowledge and skills learnt from the prior foundations, musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiorespiratory units into practice in preparation for the complexity that is commonly encountered in clinical practice. Differences in the role of the physiotherapy in emergency, acute, subacute and community settings are explored. The development of your clinical reasoning will encompass the differences in the role of physiotherapy in emergency, acute, subacute and community. The role of physiotherapy in a variety of areas of physiotherapy practice is explored including oncology, women's and men’s health, amputees, chronic pain, falls, and vestibular conditions. Biopsychosocial perspectives are analysed within complex presentations, including a focus on developing your cultural capability. Systematic literature review tasks are completed in response to a clinical question, in preparation for the capstone independent research project in the Doctor of Physiotherapy. The unit is comprised of two components: an on-campus workshop and simulation block, and off campus learning modules focused on the role of physiotherapy in imaging and domestic violence. Preparation activities precede the on-campus practical skills and simulation sessions, to ensure there are multiple opportunities for skills practice and feedback. A dedicated pre-clinical week will prepare you for the clinical placements that follow. Off campus modules are completed between clinical placement blocks.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook lists an examination for this unit.

All assessment tasks in this unit are competency hurdles. One attempt is permitted. 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

1. Define and explain pain to others as a complex, multidimensional experience;
2. Communicate appropriate information to other health professionals involved in providing client care to optimize interprofessional management, including medical and surgical, behavioural and psychological, or pharmacological approaches;
3. Compare the belief structures behind mainstream and complementary therapies, and their efficacy in therapy;
4. Describe how ethnicity and culture influence health, healthcare and illness;
5. Recognise common presentations of family violence in healthcare and describe best practice for management if encountered by a physiotherapist;
6. Synthesise the pathophysiology of injury and disease from multiple systems and integrate knowledge into physiotherapy assessment and management;
7. Apply knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the endocrine, renal, reproductive and vestibular systems and their common pathologies to physiotherapy management and client care;
8. Apply physiotherapy management in specialised areas of practice, including clients presenting with complaints relating to oncology, women’s health, amputees, chronic pain, vestibular, falls, dementia and complex musculoskeletal conditions;
9. Utilise data from imaging or investigation results to inform clinical reasoning; and
10. Conduct a systematic review in accordance with recommended methods such as those outlined in the Cochrane handbook.

Workload

On-campus block (6 weeks) - 3-4 hours of seminars and 3-4 hours of lectures, 7-10 hours of tutorials including clinical skills, tutorials and simulation sessions and 10 hours of self-directed activity expected each week Off-campus block (6 weeks) - An average of 20 hours per week is required to complete the compulsory online modules and independent study

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.