Integrated Professional Practice (PHTY90108)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
Overview
| Availability | March |
|---|---|
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The key aim of this subject is to prepare students for diverse, complex, and evolving physiotherapy careers/practices. This subject includes campus-based learning and two clinical placements: a Professional Selective placement and a Work Transition placement.
Building upon previous DPT learning and the DPT graduate attributes, the subject provides opportunities to extend, deepen and apply knowledge, skills and attributes. Students will manage patients with complex needs in a range of settings through case-based learning, and through clinical placements in preparation for entry to practice. Emphasis will be placed on investigating, analysing and synthesising complex information, applying clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice and professional ethics, critiquing, debating and weighing priorities relating to the individual and their families. Additionally, there will be a focus on collaborative interprofessional practice, organisational and healthcare policies and priorities, and third party agencies to devise, implement and evaluate management plans that are responsive to the individual, systems of health and community care, and the environment. A professional selective placement will provide opportunities for students to choose a clinical, research or professional practice placement, in line with their early career preference.
To further build and enhance transitional skills, knowledge and attributes necessary for practice as physiotherapists, students will be given opportunities to be reflective, critical and creative in addressing identified needs in their own professional practice and in a professional practice setting. Students will review Australian Physiotherapy Council standards to identify areas of need in their own professional knowledge and skills. In collaboration with clinical supervisors, students will address these identified need areas in their work transition clinical placements.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students will have had the opportunity to:
- Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information in the context of managing patients with complex needs in a range of settings
- Apply a high standard of clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice and professional ethics in clinical practice
- Devise, implement and evaluate management plans that are responsive to the individual and their families, collaborative interprofessional practice, organisational and healthcare policies and priorities, and third party and government funding agencies, systems of health and community care, and the environment.
- Demonstrate preparation for transition from student to working as a physiotherapist in a professional practice setting.
- Apply and justify the implementation of evidence-based practice in the context of a clinical practice.
- Explore potential conflicts between the three dimensions of evidence-based practice: person centred care, research evidence and professional experience.
- Use the Australian Physiotherapy Council's standards of practice to reflect on professional knowledge and skills, and to identify and address personal learning needs.
- Debate barriers and enablers to knowledge translation in professional practice.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students will have had the opportunity to develop the DPT graduate attributes including:
- Excellent interpersonal and decision-making skills, and critical and creative thinking
- Capability for reflective practice including an awareness of personal and professional strengths and limitations, and responsibility to maintain high quality professional standards
- Analytical and cognitive skills to address complex problems with sensitivity to individual, organizational and community social and cultural diversity
- Capability to participate in collaborative learning, confront unfamiliar problems, initiate and implement constructive change at an individual and community level, including their profession and/or workplace.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
All of
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHRM90002 | Pharmacology for Health Professionals | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| PHTY90093 | Healthcare in Context 1 |
July (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
| PHTY90101 | Research and Evidence 2 | Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| PHTY90103 | Lifespan and Chronic Disease Practice |
Semester 2 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Non-allowed subjects
Recommended background knowledge
Knowledge and skills covered in all 1st year, 2nd year subjects and 3rd year semester 1 DPT 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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Individual ePortfolio
| Due following week after completion of work transition clinic and professional selective placement. | 20% |
Individual work transition clinic: continuous clinical assessment; 4 week (4 days/week or 122 hours) clinical placement.
| At the end of placement. | 50% |
Individual professional selective placement; 4 week (4 days/week or 122 hours) clinical placement
| At the end of placement. | N/A |
Group submission of digital or printed infographic
| End of semester 1 | 30% |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- March
Coordinator Jessica Lees Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Campus hours: 34 hours of lectures and tutorials. Clinical component: 244 hours across 2 clinical placements (work transition clinic and selective clinic) of 4 weeks comprising 30 hours per week. Non-contact time (including online) – up to 90 hours. Total time commitment 368 hours Teaching period 10 March 2025 to 14 November 2025 Last self-enrol date 29 April 2025 Census date 2 May 2025 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 August 2025 Assessment period ends 21 November 2025 March contact information
Time commitment details
Approximately 280 hours. Students will need to allow time for self-directed learning, with a minimum of 3 hours per week of self-directed learning and preparation for written assessment tasks.
What do these dates mean
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Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 4 March 2025