Sports Medicine Professional Project (MEDI90090)

This 25 credit point subject is a capstone experience that will run over two consecutive terms, and will require students to integrate and apply an advanced body of knowledge and cognitive, technical and creative skills to design and complete a substantial professional project. Building on their previous learning and the University of Melbourne graduate attributes, the subject provides opportunities to extend, deepen and apply knowledge, skills and attributes in the context of a professional project.

Students will conduct a professional project based on a needs assessment within their professional practice context, identifying and justifying priority service areas. Selecting a priority area in collaboration with an academic and professional mentor they will design, justify and present a program, service or resource, including a business case, to address the identified area of need and design a project to meet this need.

This subject provides the opportunity for interdisciplinary networking; dissemination of project outcomes with student peers and colleagues; and peer review prior to submission of the final assessment task.

Further guidance for students regarding subject structure and project development:

This capstone subject is designed to draw together the theoretical strands of the Master of Sports Medicine degree.This subject is supported by a purpose-designed online foundation module Sports Medicine LifeLong Learning and Leadership. This module scaffolds students’ to strategically align their learning with established professional competencies, facilitating a deep understanding of existing policy and process to design fully informed career goals, particularly focused towards Sports professional titling and accreditation. A Sports Medicine Master Professional Development Portfolio is compiled of completed Master of Sports Medicine coursework and other evidence of qualification and learning. This underpins reflection and revision of career goals & future learning pathways to inform the Capstone professional project.

This Sports Medicine LifeLong Learning and Leadership module is populated with practice and research resources, as well as tutor facilitated and student-led learning and reflection activities to facilitate the design of a Capstone project to “demonstrate the application of knowledge and skills to plan and execute a substantial research‐based project, capstone experience or piece of scholarship”. This could also include “extended understanding of recent developments in a discipline or its professional practice” or “independent research”.

Students then design and implement a project to best support the integration of their Sports Medicine career goals and the conduct of their Capstone project.

The final Integration, Contribution & Reflection Module provides opportunity for interdisciplinary networking; dissemination of project outcomes with student peers and colleagues; and peer review prior to submission of the final assessment task.