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PTY4172

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 26 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 2, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Physiotherapy

Coordinator(s)

Dr Sze-Ee Soh

Offered

Peninsula

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)
  • Summer semester A 2016 (Day)

Notes

Students must submit valid police check, WWC check, first aid certificate and annual CPR update documents to be signed off by administrative staff by the Wednesday prior to the first scheduled clinical placement in order to participate in clinical placements.

Synopsis

PTY4172 continues to develop the five themes upon which the four year curriculum is based. These are:

  • Theme 1: Personal and Professional Development;
  • Theme 2: Population, Society and Health;
  • Theme 3: Fundamental Knowledge of Health Science;
  • Theme 4: Applied Practice; and
  • Theme 5: Research.

Delivery of physiotherapy services and ongoing case based learning provide opportunities for integration of the different themes within the course. Students undertake a clinical attachment (5 weeks) during this unit, providing them the opportunity to apply integrated knowledge and skills from previous learning in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy to acute, subacute or community patient care.

Outcomes

There are 42 specific objectives for the Year 4 clinical units that address the five themes outlined in the unit synopsis.

Fieldwork

Clinical placement: 32 hours per week x 5 weeks.

Assessment

Hurdle:
Professional conduct - Students are required to demonstrate professional behaviour in communication (written or verbal) with department staff and clinical educators in order to pass the unit.
Attendance and participation, learning needs form, clinical log, self assessment using APP and feedback conference. Achieving 50% on Items 1-6 and on Items 7-20 inclusive on the APP for each clinical core placement.
Achieve a pass in all summative tasks.

Summative assessment:
Clinical (APP) assessment (80%)
Research poster (summative) (10%)
Research skills submission (summative) (10%)

Chief examiner(s)

Mr Michael Storr

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Physiotherapy

Prerequisites

PTY1011, PTY1022, PTY2031, PTY2042, PTY3051, PTY3162, PTY3262, PTY3362.

Co-requisites

Must be enrolled in course M3003.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.monash.edu.au/study/coursefinder/course/3868/