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2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023
Unit description
This unit advances the student osteopathic clinician experience of case history taking, differential diagnosis, clinical reasoning, patient management plans and treatment strategies informed by the best available evidence in a supervised clinical practice setting.
Unit content
Students undertake learning experiences to further develop professional behaviours and competencies, and integrate and apply theory and skills learned in previous units. Reflective practice and the development of clinical reasoning are key components of this unit
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate proficiency in conducting a full patient history |
| 2 | perform a full patient physical examination in context at a proficient level |
| 3 | practice advanced clinical reasoning skills with direction to formulate and explain a management plan and commence a safe, rational and effective series of osteopathic treatments |
| 4 | exemplify high standards of professional behaviour and attitudes, reflective practice and inter and intra-professional communication |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate proficiency in conducting a full patient history
- perform a full patient physical examination in context at a proficient level
- practice advanced clinical reasoning skills with direction to formulate and explain a management plan and commence a safe, rational and effective series of osteopathic treatments
- exemplify high standards of professional behaviour and attitudes, reflective practice and inter and intra-professional communication
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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