Sports Medicine Professional Project (MEDI90090)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Online
About this subject
Contact information
Semester 1 (Extended)
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Semester 2 (Extended)
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 (Extended) - Online Semester 2 (Extended) - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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.
Intended learning outcomes
Sports Medicine Theory & Practice:
- Fluently and accurately discuss and debate key theoretical concepts in contemporary Sports Medicine practices using the language of sport science and medicine
- Evaluation of their project ensuring sustainability, feasibility and stakeholder value
- Critically review policy and services outcomes within one Sports Medicine practice context with a view to identifying gaps to provision of best practice as a basis of a project proposal
- Design and implement a sustainable new service, policy modification or program that addresses the needs identified
Evidence & innovation:
- Critically evaluate and integrate innovative approaches into the application of the professional project
- Analyze, synthesize and critically evaluate research and evidence relevant to sports medicine practices
Clinical practice in context:
- Systematically and ethically collect data from their practice setting to ensure an informed and criterion based analysis of the practice setting
- Demonstrate academic writing, oral and creative skills to present information to both specialists in academic forums and specialists and non-specialist in clinical contexts
- Plan and execute a substantial research based project
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Enrolling in this subject will normally occur towards the end of the Masters study pathway. This means students will have completed all core subjects and all or most elective subjects. Individual requests to complete the capstone subject earlier in the student’s pathway will be at the discretion of the course coordinator.
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Professional Development Portfolio: Part 1 Literature synthesis
| Week 5 | 15% |
Professional Development Portfolio: Part 2 Needs analysis report
| Week 9 | 15% |
Dissemination Evidence Communication of project outcomes to a relevant target audience (e.g. poster, presentation, flier)
| Second half of the teaching period | 10% |
Professional Project Report
| End of semester | 60% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- Semester 1 (Extended) - Online
Coordinator Sonya Moore Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 64 Total time commitment 280 hours Pre teaching start date 20 January 2025 Pre teaching requirements There is a one week pre-teaching period during which students are encouraged to view a video presentation of an overview of the subject, assessment requirements and expectations These activities serve to prepare the students for commencing in their learning fully informed about the requirements of the subject. Teaching period 27 January 2025 to 29 June 2025 Last self-enrol date 31 January 2025 Census date 31 March 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 May 2025 Assessment period ends 6 July 2025 Semester 1 (Extended) contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
- Semester 2 (Extended) - Online
Coordinator Sonya Moore Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 64 Total time commitment 280 hours Pre teaching start date 14 July 2025 Pre teaching requirements There is a one week pre-teaching period during which students are encouraged to view a video presentation of an overview of the subject, assessment requirements and expectations These activities serve to prepare the students for commencing in their learning fully informed about the requirements of the subject. Teaching period 21 July 2025 to 7 December 2025 Last self-enrol date 25 July 2025 Census date 1 September 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 September 2025 Assessment period ends 14 December 2025 Semester 2 (Extended) contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
Approximately 280 hours, (18 weeks x 12 hrs + 64 contact hrs). The final assessment task will be submitted at the end of week 9, in the second term (Week 18). Students will be expected to complete independent learning activity equivalent to approximately 24 hours a week over the 18 weeks.
What do these dates mean
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
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Last updated: 4 March 2025