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Unit description
Builds upon student learning from Lower Limb Medicine I. Introduces students to the disease processes and pathology behind advanced foot and ankle conditions. Introduces students to concepts of population health as it relates to the foot and ankle.
Unit content
Topic 1: Population health and the foot and ankle
- Evidence in practice
- Understanding the differences in ageing
- Communication, multidisciplinary and inter-professional care
Topic 2: The adult foot
- Assessment and management of common adult foot conditions
- Case presentations
Topic 3: Gerontology
- The ageing body
- The ageing foot
Topic 4: Normal and abnormal paediatric pathology
- Common paediatric pathology of the lower limb
- Assessment and management of common paediatric conditions
Topic 5: Sports medicine for the lower limb
- Clinical signs and symptoms
- Assessment and management of sporting injuries
- Evidence-based practice and clinical rationale for intervention
- Multidisciplinary care, communication, case management and referral
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: | |
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| 1 | evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the adult population with consideration of evidence-based practice |
| 2 | evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the geriatric population with consideration of evidence-based practice |
| 3 | evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the paediatric population with consideration of evidence-based practice |
| 4 | critique the assessment, management and parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries |
| 5 | discuss the importance of multidisciplinary care in the assessment and management of foot disease. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the adult population with consideration of evidence-based practice
- evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the geriatric population with consideration of evidence-based practice
- evaluate the assessment, management and presentation of foot disorders in the paediatric population with consideration of evidence-based practice
- critique the assessment, management and parameters of acute and chronic lower limb sports injuries
- discuss the importance of multidisciplinary care in the assessment and management of foot disease.
Teaching and assessment
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