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Lifespan Practice (PHTY90121)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 18.75On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
Availability | Year Long (Extended) |
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This subject, conducted in the clinical, community and university setting, will provide students with an opportunity to develop their clinical skills and to integrate their theoretical knowledge in lifespan (paediatric and gerontology) physiotherapy clinical practice. The emphasis in this subject is the application of clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice in the safe and effective management of individuals across the lifespan in the clinical setting. This includes working within a team to provide person and family-centred care.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Integrate prior knowledge of paediatric and geriatric physiotherapy, common paediatric and geriatric conditions, and the framework for clinical reasoning to the assessment and management of individuals across the lifespan.
- Implement theoretical frameworks for clinical reasoning in paediatric and geriatric physiotherapy in selecting appropriate problems, goals, assessments, and approaches to treatment in the clinical setting
- Safely and effectively demonstrate and interpret assessment techniques, including history taking, observational movement analysis, objective measures of impairment, activity limitations and participation restrictions across the lifespan.
- Select, justify and demonstrate safe and effective physiotherapy interventions to address impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions in collaboration with the patient and their family.
- Use findings of high-quality clinical research to inform clinical decision-making in assessment and treatment of patients across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate accurate and effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills within the clinical setting, including the ability to develop rapport and accommodate the cognitive, linguistic and cultural needs of the individual and their family/carers.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the patients' rights, medicolegal requirements, and sociocultural preferences, and effectively engage in patient education and advocacy.
- Identify the factors critical to effective time and resource management in the clinical setting and implement strategies addressing these factors within individual treatment sessions and caseload management.
- Develop short-term and long-term treatment goals with the patient (or family/carers as appropriate) with discharge planning designed to meet these goals within existing constraints.
- Articulate the role of the physiotherapist within the multidisciplinary team and demonstrate capacity to work effectively within the team in a clinical setting.
Generic skills
- Responding constructively to feedback
- Accessing new knowledge from all sources, analysing and interpreting it in a critical manner, and applying it appropriately
- Recognising and managing emotions in self and others
- Maintaining physical, emotional, social and spiritual health and recognising the importance of professional support in this process
- Respecting the roles and expertise of other healthcare professionals and communicating effectively with them
Last updated: 6 December 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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PHTY90117 | Integrated Professional Practice A | Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) |
31.25 |
PHTY90089 | Neurological Physiotherapy | Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHTY90090 | Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy | Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
PHTY90091 | Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy | Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 6 December 2023
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Paediatric Community Placement log
| On completion of community placement hours | N/A |
Experiential Paediatric Clinical Placement: Assessed using Professional Behaviour Grading Form
| End of paediatric clinical placement | N/A |
ePortfolio task 1
| End of paediatric clinical placement | 20% |
ePortfolio task 2
| Due 2 weeks after completion of both clinical & community placements | 15% |
Gerontology placement: continuous clinical assessment using Assessment of Physiotherapy (APP) tool
| End of gerontology clinical placement | 50% |
Gerontology Case Presentation
| During the last week of clinical placement | 15% |
Last updated: 6 December 2023
Dates & times
- Year Long (Extended)
Coordinators Tara Fitzgerald and Kelly Bower Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 304 hours Pre teaching requirements Students must submit valid pre-clinical documentation as listed in the course handbook page to administration staff by the deadline specified and communicated to students. Failure to submit these mandatory documents may result in students being unable to complete this subject. Teaching period 16 January 2023 to 10 November 2023 Last self-enrol date 27 January 2023 Census date 31 May 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 17 November 2023
Last updated: 6 December 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 6 December 2023