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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Advanced

Pre-requisites

PDT30002 Lower Limb Medicine I

Unit aim

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

Unit content

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 apply the theory pertaining to systemic disease and its effects on the lower limb
2 design a plan for the management of of systemic disease
3 evaluate the normal and abnormal parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries
4 outline the specific approaches to assessment and management of foot disease
5 define the importance of multi-disciplinary care for foot disease

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

  1. apply the theory pertaining to systemic disease and its effects on the lower limb
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. design a plan for the management of of systemic disease
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  3. evaluate the normal and abnormal parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. outline the specific approaches to assessment and management of foot disease
    • GA4:
  5. define the importance of multi-disciplinary care for foot disease
    • GA1:
    • GA4: