PTY5308 · Clinical practice D

Overview

You will complete a selective clinical placement in this unit, comprising a five-week clinical placement, enabling you to extend your knowledge and experience and further develop the competencies required for independent practice as a physiotherapist.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

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

1. Seek, reflect on and respond appropriately to feedback in the practice context.
2. Deliver person-centred care that is culturally safe, upholds client rights, and is in accordance with legal and ethical standards.
3. Demonstrate professional behaviour through effective teamwork, reflective practice, and a commitment to ongoing learning.
4. Communicate appropriately and effectively across written and verbal mediums, with clients, staff, and other health care stakeholders.
5. Tailor knowledge and skills to effectively assess client needs, including selection of relevant measures of health indicators and outcomes.
6. Analyse, plan and execute appropriate patient interactions, including person-centred goal development and management.
7. Identify, critically appraise and apply evidence-based practice to person-centred care in physiotherapy.
8. Critically analyse risks and adverse events associated with physiotherapy practice.

Workload

A five-week clinical placement, typically comprising of 32 hours of clinical placement and approximately 8 hours of self-directed study per week. (Total of 190 hours in contact and associated work).

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