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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
Completion of 192 credit points; AND For Podiatry: PODR2003 - Internal Clinical Placement AND PODR2004 - Lower Limb Medicine II AND PODR2005 - Orthoses and Bracing AND PODR2010 - Lower Limb Assessment II; OR For Speech: SPCH2005 - Child Language and Literacy: Theory and Practice AND must have completed or be currently enrolled in SPCH2007 - Neurogenic Speech Disorders in Adults and Children AND SPCH2008 - Language in Adults: Theory and Practice
Unit aim
Students undertake clinical practice and case-based tutorials where they will apply clinical reasoning, profession specific and interdisciplinary skills to clients with a range of disorders.
Unit content
Theory and preclinical information on:
- Principles of interdisciplinary practice and roles within interdisciplinary teams
- Evidence-based practice using the International Classification of Functioning (ICF), Disability and Health Framework
- Clinical reasoning and treatment planning for clients with a range of disorders
- Discipline specific assessment and intervention techniques
- Interdisciplinary approaches to client management.
Clinic experience (under supervision) in:
- Assessing and interpreting clinical data
- Writing reports of findings; providing recommendations regarding intervention and planning for intervention
- Presentation and discussion of client details to audiences as appropriate
- Selecting outcome measurements to track progress of clients
- Applying profession specific and inter-professional assessment and intervention skills.
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | apply effective clinical reasoning, profession specific and inter-professional skills for clients with a range of disorders, and critically reflect on clinical practice |
| 2 | conceptualise and integrate use of the ICF, Disability and Health framework in the diagnosis of impairment (body function and structure) and its impact on life activities and participation |
| 3 | assess, plan, implement, measure and evaluate intervention for clients and their caregivers based on appropriate evidence, and using relevant technologies |
| 4 | write professional reports that include recommendations based on evidence and justified with clinical reasoning |
| 5 | identify and describe the roles of members of the inter-disciplinary team involved in client management and care |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- apply effective clinical reasoning, profession specific and inter-professional skills for clients with a range of disorders, and critically reflect on clinical practice
- conceptualise and integrate use of the ICF, Disability and Health framework in the diagnosis of impairment (body function and structure) and its impact on life activities and participation
- assess, plan, implement, measure and evaluate intervention for clients and their caregivers based on appropriate evidence, and using relevant technologies
- write professional reports that include recommendations based on evidence and justified with clinical reasoning
- identify and describe the roles of members of the inter-disciplinary team involved in client management and care
Prescribed texts
- Higgs, J, Ajjawi, R, McAllister, L, Trede, F & Loftus, S, 2012, Communicating in the health sciences, 3rd edn, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, Vic. ISBN: 9780195579048.