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Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
24
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
School/College
Unit aim
Consolidates the ongoing development of competencies and the ethical and professional standards that are required to become an entry level practitioner of clinical exercise physiology. Students will develop advanced skills in the application of effective exercise for all the relevant pathology domains associated with chronic conditions.
Unit content
- The role of evidence based practice
- Differentiation of contraindications in the musculoskeletal and neuromuscular domains
- Professional communication
- Principles of body mechanics and functional capacity
- Adverse clinical symptoms
- Referral in a multi-disciplinary context
- Clinical placement
Learning outcomes
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 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design and manage the clinical exercise therapy for clients with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular pathologies | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | Cultural competence | ||||
| 2 | recognise and follow the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethical Practice, standards of best practice and medico-legal framework of practice | Ethical practice | ||||||
| 3 | critically evaluate scientific literature from a clinical perspective | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 4 | produce professional documentation and written communication. | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 5 | exhibit the clinical skills and competencies of a professional graduate-level Clinical Exercise Physiologist | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Cultural competence | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- design and manage the clinical exercise therapy for clients with musculoskeletal and
neuromuscular pathologies
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA7: Cultural competence
- recognise and follow the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethical Practice, standards
of best practice and medico-legal framework of practice
- GA3: Ethical practice
- critically evaluate scientific literature from a clinical perspective
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- produce professional documentation and written communication.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- exhibit the clinical skills and competencies of a professional graduate-level Clinical
Exercise Physiologist
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA7: Cultural competence
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