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Unit of Study PDT30001 - Management and Treatment of the High Risk Foot (2017)

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Unit description

Builds on student’s knowledge of lower limb neurovascular disease and pathomechanics. Students learn about assessment and treatment of the at-risk foot including wound management. Includes engagement with case-based scenarios and placement experiences.

Unit content

Topic 1: Introduction to the high risk foot

  • Epidemiology of foot wounds and amputations
  • Socioeconomic burden
  • Impact on the health care system

Topic 2: Disease processes that leave the foot at risk

  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Arthropathies
  • Neuropathies
  • Obesity

Topic 3: Assessment and risk stratification

  • Vascular assessment
  • Neurological assessment
  • Deformity and footwear assessment
  • Biomechanical assessment
  • Use of technology in assessment
  • Evidence-based guidelines

Topic 4: Wound care

  • Normal and abnormal wound healing
  • Classifying and describing wounds
  • Identifying and treating infection
  • Adjunct treatments
  • Dressings and wound care products
  • Offloading
  • Amputation
  • Wound prevention

Topic 5: Interprofessional skills

  • Patient education
  • Referral pathways in managing at-risk feet
  • Medical management
  • Surgical management
  • Allied health management
  • Multi-disciplinary team approach

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 critically appraise the evidence pertaining to the assessment and management of the high-risk foot
2 assess foot complication risk in at-risk populations
3 assess the clinical presentation of the acute and chronic high-risk foot
4 apply practical skills to assess, prevent and treat the high-risk foot
5 safely and appropriately manage acute foot wounds and those in remission
6 demonstrate competence in a clinical multi-disciplinary high-risk foot setting

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

  1. critically appraise the evidence pertaining to the assessment and management of the high-risk foot
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. assess foot complication risk in at-risk populations
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  3. assess the clinical presentation of the acute and chronic high-risk foot
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  4. apply practical skills to assess, prevent and treat the high-risk foot
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  5. safely and appropriately manage acute foot wounds and those in remission
    • GA4:
  6. demonstrate competence in a clinical multi-disciplinary high-risk foot setting
    • GA1:
    • GA4:

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