PDT30003 - Lower Limb Medicine II (2014)

Not currently available in 2014

Builds upon student learning from  Lower Limb Medicine I.  Introduces students to disease processes and pathology associated with advanced foot and ankle conditions.  

Topic 1: Body systems and systemic diseases affecting the lower limb

• Epidemiology, mortality and morbidity
• Aetiology, signs and symptoms
• Management
• Multidisciplinary care, communication and referral
  • Autoimmune disease and systemic arthropathies
  • Connective tissue and neurological disorders
  • Endocrine disease
  • Cardiovascular disease and respiratory conditions
  • Other diseases of the foot and ankle

Topic 2: Role of the foot and ankle practitioner in evaluation and management of systemic diseases affecting the lower limb

• Lower limb clinical signs and symptoms
• Laboratory tests
• Role of the foot and ankle practitioner
• Evidence-based practice and clinical rationale for intervention
• Communication and case management (includes documentation review)
  • Autoimmune disease and systemic arthropathies
  • Connective tissue and neurological disorders
  • Endocrine disease
  • Cardiovascular disease and respiratory conditions
  • Other diseases of the foot and ankle

Topic 3: Sports medicine for the lower limb

• Clinical signs and symptoms
• Normal and Abnormal parameters in assessment and management of sporting injuries
• Evidence-based practice and clinical rationale for intervention
• Multidisciplinary care, communication, case management and referral
  • Common sporting injuries of the lower limb
  • Complicated and chronic sporting injuries of the lower limb

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.