Course Title: Advanced Clinical Theory & Practice
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Advanced Clinical Theory & Practice
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
REHA2218 |
Bundoora Campus |
Undergraduate |
150H Health Sciences |
Face-to-Face | Sem 1 2015, Sem 1 2016 |
REHA2218 |
Bundoora Campus |
Undergraduate |
173H School of Health and Biomed |
Face-to-Face | Sem 1 2017, Sem 1 2018 |
Course Coordinator: Kylie Spencer
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 6582
Course Coordinator Email: kylie.spencer@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.072-2
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required concurrent study (Co-requisites)
- REHA2216 Osteopathic Clinical Practice 3 (Course ID 047334)
Course Description
This course introduces the framework of evidence-based practice for osteopathic clinical practice. You will learn how to integrate clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. You will be exposed to the historical development and contemporary relevance of the EBP framework in healthcare and medicine and its importance in providing safe, ethical and effective patient care
This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.
In particular the practical work in this course simulates a practice environment and involves role play as clinician and patient which provides skills in the practice of osteopathic manual therapy used in osteopathic practice.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP279 Bachelor of Health Science/Bachelor of Applied Science (Osteopathy):
- PLO1 Provide patient-centred care as a competent, safe primary healthcare professional
- PLO2 Provide osteopathic, musculo-skeletal healthcare within a patient-centred, evidence-based framework
- PLO3 Gather and interpret health information, and employ clinical reasoning to develop differential diagnoses, to inform assessment and management
- PLO4 Effectively communicate with a wide audience (i.e. patients, carers, healthcare professionals and agencies), with respect and sensitivity to socio-cultural diversity, using a variety of media
- PLO5 Manage all aspects of clinical practice to comply with ethical, legal, and regulatory standards in an evolving healthcare industry
- PLO6 Work autonomously and collaboratively, to lead and/or contribute to inter-professional healthcare partnerships
- PLO7 Develop and implement strategies to meet personal and professional demands, as a primary healthcare provider
- PLO8 Develop a commitment to lifelong learning, recognising the historical development and evolution of the profession, and how this integrates with contemporary practice
On successful completion of this course you should be able to:
- Demonstrate critical reflective practice by tailoring a management plan within a patient-centred model of care
- Demonstrate the skills used to integrate adjunctive therapies to inform a care plan for a variety of health conditions
- Identify and apply key theories of nutrition to typical factors of health and exercise in relation to individual needs
- Demonstrate the application of functional technique on all motion segments of the body.
- Examine the physiological basis and philosophical underpinnings for these techniques and their effect on the body
- Perform advanced soft tissue technique
Overview of Learning Activities
Lecture presentations are used to distribute new information, revise assumed knowledge and enable you to develop knowledge of concepts for performance of technique in appropriate situations, the understanding of the role of nutrition in maintain health, and the clinical requirements and expectations of osteopathic practice in Australia. Lecture material and related resources are available on RMIT's online Learning Management System (LMS)
Practical participation encourages you to practice taught material in lectures and demonstrations and to ask questions and receive confirmation from your supervising teachers.
Tutorial base clinical simulation activities involving group discussion to encourage independent opinion and provide shared experiences from which you and your fellow students can learn.
Teacher Guided Hours: 30 per semester comprising lectures (12 x 1 hour lectures) and practorials (12 x 1.5 hour practicals)
Learner Directed Hours: 78 per semester consisting of review of lecture material and additional essential readings
Overview of Learning Resources
Course notes and online resources are available through myRMIT Studies (www.rmit.edu.au/myrmit).
The Library has specialised Subject guides at http://rmit.libguides.com/osteopathy
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
Overview of Assessment
All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).
Early formative assessment task: Formative quiz
Weighting 0%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 5
Assessment task 1: Critical review and reflection
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1 & 3
Assessment task 2: Assignment
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLO 3
Assessment task 3: End of semester theory exam
Weighting 35%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 5
Assessment task 4: End of semester practical exam
Weighting 25%
This assessment task supports CLOs 4 & 6