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Unit of Study PDT73007 - Pedorthics Clinical Placement III (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

Builds on previous experience and provides students with continued supervised clinical experience in the highly specialised provision of pedorthic services to the general public. Student clinicians will be responsible for advanced case planning and management within this supervised environment.

Unit content

Students will be involved in providing pedorthic assessment and treatment involving custom made orthoses and footwear for high risk cases, including clients with diabetes related and neuropathic foot complications. Students will be exposed to clients demonstrating a level of complexity and lower limb deformity that require complex custom-made footwear with orthotic elements . There is a strong emphasis on evidence based practice.

While on placement students will participate in learning experiences, under low level of supervision and guidance, to develop high level clinical, professional and communication skills. These experiences will include, for clients with increased complexity or at high risk of foot complications:

• conducting initial client interview to obtain health and pedorthic history

• performing and interpreting clinical assessments for the lower limb (including, vascular, neurological, dermatological, biomechanical, and gait assessments)

• conducting and interpreting plantar pressure assessment with consideration of established guidelines

• planning and implementing evidence based pedorthic intervention

• reviewing, evaluating and modifying pedorthic intervention

• reviewing medical reports, including radiology results

• obtaining three-dimensional foot and ankle models (casting and scanning)

• manufacturing pedorthic appliances including designing and constructing the cast negatives and positives, orthoses and complete footwear

• conducting trial and final fittings, compare outcomes against planned outcomes, accounting for variations

• providing client / user focused education for the use, care and follow up of any fitted appliance or pedorthic intervention

• participating in professional dialogue and case discussions with colleagues

• practicing and communicating as a member of an interprofessional health care team

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 demonstrate advanced skills in working as a safe, competent pedorthic practitioner
2 demonstrate a professional level of case management skills consistent with a beginning pedorthic practitioner
3 provide person-centred pedorthic advice and appliances for complex and high risk cases
4 display high standards of professional and ethical conduct
5 communicate competently and professionally, and present a case study consistent with the requirements of a beginning pedorthic practitioner
6 critically review pedorthic practice.

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

  1. demonstrate advanced skills in working as a safe, competent pedorthic practitioner
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  2. demonstrate a professional level of case management skills consistent with a beginning pedorthic practitioner
    • GA1:
  3. provide person-centred pedorthic advice and appliances for complex and high risk cases
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  4. display high standards of professional and ethical conduct
    • GA3:
  5. communicate competently and professionally, and present a case study consistent with the requirements of a beginning pedorthic practitioner
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  6. critically review pedorthic practice.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

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