Overview
You will develop an evidence-based and patient-centred approach to physiotherapy management of the complex adult and paediatric patient across a range of clinical areas. Topics may include: orthopaedics, amputees, mental health, oncology, men's and women's health, burns and plastics, transplantation and palliative care. Your focus will be on establishing the connections between physiological capacity for improvement and symptomology, while considering all relevant domains of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
To enrol in this unit you must be enrolled in the CB85 Course and meet the following pre-requisites: PSIO12002 - Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy PSIO12005 - Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy 2 MPAT12001 - Medical Pathophysiology PSIO12004 - Neurological Physiotherapy 1
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student representative meeting, verbal feedback.
Students value the in-class formative feedback and guidance given throughout clinical skills teaching, practice and case studies, and seek more of this consistently throughout the term and across campuses.
It is recommended that the unit teaching team review feedback pathways throughout the term to incorporate ongoing formative feedback, not just at the completion of assessments.
Feedback from SUTE feedback, verbal feedback.
Students valued the new Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) format and felt that it better gauged students clinical reasoning skills.
It is recommended that the new format of the OSCE continues to be used in subsequent years of delivery.