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Unit of Study PDT20001 - Internal Clinical Placement (2019)

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  • Enrolment information

    Please be advised that this unit includes professional experience learning which has pre-placement provisions and associated placement expenses as detailed on the School of Health and Human Sciences Professional Experience page. Failure to comply with these pre-placement requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Professional Experience Learning.

Unit description

Students are introduced to the podiatry profession in a clinical setting and the associated roles and responsibilities of patient care. 

Unit content

  • Practising within a clinical setting
  • Application of legal and regulatory frameworks pertaining to infection control
  • Workplace health and safety
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Communication, referral and medical record keeping
  • Conducting a podiatry consultation

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 reflect on professional practice
2 demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
3 apply clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
4 practice within legal and regulatory frameworks
5 perform physical examination and provide safe care to healthy clients

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. reflect on professional practice
    • GA5:
  2. demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
    • GA7:
  3. apply clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
    • GA3:
  4. practice within legal and regulatory frameworks
    • GA3:
  5. perform physical examination and provide safe care to healthy clients
    • GA3:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.