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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
Unit aim
Builds upon student learning from Lower Limb Medicine I. Introduces students to the disease processes and pathology behind advanced foot and ankle conditions. Introduces students to concepts of population health.
Unit content
Topic 1: Population health and the foot and ankle
- Evidence in practice
- Understanding the differences in ageing
- Communication, multidisciplinary and inter-professional care
Topic 2: The adult foot
- Assessment and management of common adult foot conditions
- Case presentations
Topic 3: Gerontology
- The ageing body
- The ageing foot
Topic 4: Normal and abnormal paediatric pathology
- Common paediatric pathology of the lower limb
- Assessment and management of common paediatric conditions
Topic 5: Sports medicine for the lower limb
- Clinical signs and symptoms
- Assessment and management of sporting injuries
- Evidence-based practice and clinical rationale for intervention
- Multidisciplinary care, communication, case management and referral
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 | |
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| 1 | apply the theory of evidence-based practice to population health | |||||||
| 2 | evaluate the presentation of foot disorders in relation to paediatric, adult and elderly populations | |||||||
| 3 | critique the assessment, management and parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries | |||||||
| 4 | outline the varying approaches to assessment and management of foot disease in different populations | |||||||
| 5 | explain the importance of multidisciplinary care for foot disease | |||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
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apply the theory of evidence-based practice to population health
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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evaluate the presentation of foot disorders in relation to paediatric, adult and elderly populations
- GA1:
- GA4:
- GA5:
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critique the assessment, management and parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries
- GA1:
- GA4:
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outline the varying approaches to assessment and management of foot disease in different populations
- GA4:
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explain the importance of multidisciplinary care for foot disease
- GA1:
- GA4:
Prescribed texts
- Frowen, et al, 2010, Neale's Disorders of the Foot, 8th edn, Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, Scotland. ISBN: 9780702030291 .