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Unit of Study PDT20001 - Internal Clinical Placement (2020)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit contains laboratory activities and/or professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Laboratory Activity and/or Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/clinicalplacements

Unit description

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

Unit content

  • Practicing 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
  • Engaging in reflection on learning in the clinical setting

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Session2
Session2

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 learning in the clinical environment and develop learning plans
2 demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
3 demonstrate competency and capability with clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
4 apply and practice within relevant 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 learning in the clinical environment and develop learning plans
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
  2. demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills with diverse client groups
    • GA7:
  3. demonstrate competency and capability with clinical systems, procedures and medical records in podiatric practice
    • GA3:
  4. apply and practice within relevant legal and regulatory frameworks
    • GA3:
  5. perform physical examination and provide safe care to healthy clients
    • GA3:

Prescribed learning resources

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