Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Session 2 | Session 2 |
Unit aim
Builds on previous experience and provides students with continued supervised clinical experience in the highly specialised provision of pedorthic services to the general public. Student clinicians will be responsible for advanced case planning and management within this supervised environment.
Unit content
Clinical
- To take a comprehensive, skilful and in-depth health history from a patient
- To provide biomechanical assessments for severe medical conditions
- To review and interpret medical reports, including radiology results
- To provide advanced clinical assessments and treatment plan for the lower limb
- To take a three-dimensional foot and ankle model (casting and scanning) for complex cases
- To apply skills in the manufacture of pedorthic appliances
- To provide complex client treatment, and review progress and make appropriate adjustments to the treatment
- Overall, to demonstrate a professional level of clinical skills
Professional
- To safely and competently determine the limitations of pedorthic practice
- To demonstrate advanced professional competence, attitudes and standards appropriate for practice
- To competently determine the appropriate point for referral to other health care professionals
- To demonstrate highly developed interpersonal skills, workplace professionalism and teamwork
- To demonstrate professional, medico-legal and ethical principles pertaining to clinical practice
- At all times to observe workplace health and safety regulations and infection control
Communication
- To competently present oral and written case studies
- To professionally communicate by written and oral means with clients, peers, staff and other health care professionals
Critical thinking
- To critically review literature in pedorthics and related fields
- To show evidence of critical reflection of approaches to pedorthic practice
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.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demonstrate advanced skills in working as a safe, competent pedorthic practitioner | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence |
| 2 | Demonstrate a professional level of case management skills consistent with a beginning pedorthic practitioner | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 3 | Provide person-centred pedorthic advice and appliances for complex/high risk cases | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Cultural competence | ||||
| 4 | Display high standards of professional and ethical conduct | Ethical practice | ||||||
| 5 | Communicate competently and professionally, and present a case study consistent with the requirements of a beginning pedorthic practitioner | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | |||
| 6 | Critically review pedorthic practice | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | ||||
Prescribed texts
Session 2
- Baumgartner, R, Möller, M & Stinus, H, 2016, Pedorthics: Foot disorders, foot orthoses, footwear, C. Maurer, Germany.
- Postema, K, Schott, K-H, Janisse, D & Rommers, GM, 2018, Pedorthic footwear; Assessment and treatment, 1st edn, Foundation BERJALAN, Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-818194-5-9.
Teaching and assessment
Gold Coast
| Teaching method |
| Community/Professional placement 16 hrs (15 wks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective writing | SR |
| Presentation | SR |
| Clinical Skills | SR |
| Case Study Presentation to Panel | SR |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Commencing 2019 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
Fee paying courses
For POSTGRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.