Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Clinical Education Manager
Vidya Lawton
Contact via Email
Clinical team area
Email for appointment
MQCEP
Tina Vickery
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Clinical team area
Email for appointment
MQCEP
Rebecca Vaughan
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Clinical team area
Email for appointment
MQCEP
Tim Foulcher
Contact via Email
Clinical team area
Email for appointment
Course Director
Taryn Jones
Contact via Email
75T G816
Email for appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(PHTY805 or PHTY8105) and (PHTY806 or PHTY8106) and (PHTY807 or PHTY8107) and (MEDI912 or MEDI8102 or PHTY804 or PHTY8104)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
PHTY811 or PHTY8203
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This is the second five-week full time clinical placement where you will be a member of a healthcare team working with individuals or groups with a variety of health conditions. Your placement will concentrate on acute care, primary care, or rehabilitation in a metropolitan, regional or rural setting, not repeating the area covered in PHTY8200. You will deliver person-centred health care under supervision. Building upon your knowledge and understanding of common health conditions, assessment, analysis and intervention skills which you acquired across year 1, you will integrate and develop clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills to formulate and deliver evidence-based physiotherapy intervention. You will strengthen your understanding of healthcare systems and the impact of biopsychosocial factors on health and wellbeing, whilst enhancing your skills in the provision of socially and culturally respectful healthcare. You will be expected to demonstrate standards of professionalism, ethical behaviour and safety consistent with expectations of the physiotherapy profession. You will be required to demonstrate significant progress toward the development of the Macquarie DPT Graduate Capabilities: Scientist and Scholar, Clinical Practitioner, Engaged Global Citizen and Professional, and the Physiotherapy practice thresholds in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Information concerning Macquarie University's assessment policy is available at http://mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy_2016.html. Grade descriptors and other information concerning grading requirements are contained in Schedule 1 of the Macquarie University Assessment Policy.
To pass this unit, you must demonstrate sufficient evidence of achievement of the learning outcomes. Further details for each assessment task will be available on iLearn, including marking rubrics.
All final grades in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences are determined by the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Assessment Committee, and are approved by the Faculty Board. They are not the sole responsibility of the Unit Convenor. Students will be awarded an Assessment Grade plus a Standardised Numerical Grade (SNG). The SNG is not necessarily a summation of the individual assessment components. The final grade and SNG that are awarded reflect the corresponding grade descriptor in Schedule 1 of the Assessment Policy.
You will be awarded one of these grades plus a Standardised Numerical Grade (SNG). The SNG is not necessarily a summation of the individual assessment components. The final grade and SNG that are awarded reflect the corresponding grade descriptor in Schedule 1 of the Assessment Policy. If there is a lack of sufficient evidence demonstrating that a student has met the required level of achievement in all learning outcomes they will be awarded a Fail grading with an assigned mark of 49 or less.
Extensions for Assessment Tasks
Applications for assessment task extensions must be submitted via www.ask.mq.edu.au. For further details please refer to the Special Considerations Policy available at https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration
Late Submission of Work
All assignments which are officially received after the due date, and where no extension has been granted by the unit convenor or course director, will incur a deduction of 10% for the first day, and 10% for each subsequent day including the actual day on which the work is received. Assessments received 5 days or more beyond the due date, without an approved extension, will be awarded a maximum of 50% of the overall assessment marks. Weekends and public holidays are included. For example:
Due Date |
Received |
Days Late |
Deduction |
Raw Mark |
Final Mark |
Friday, 14th |
Monday, 17th |
3 |
30% |
75% |
45% |
Hurdle Assessment
A hurdle requirement is an activity for which a minimum level of performance or participation is a condition of passing the unit in which it occurs. A student who has obtained a SNG over 50, yet failed the hurdle assessment, fails the unit. Please see Macquarie University's assessment policy for more information about hurdle assessment tasks. Within this unit, the clinical placement logbook is a hurdle task, requiring you to log sufficient evidence of clinical practice as a minimum requirement for passing this assessment task.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Viva Examination | 30% | No | Week 4/5 of placement |
Clinical Placement Logbook | 0% | Yes | 9am Monday following placement |
Mid Unit Student Self Assessment | 0% | No | Week 3 of placement |
End Unit Student Self Assessment | 0% | No | Final day of placement |
Mid Unit Assessment | 0% | No | Week 3 of placement |
End Unit Assessment | 70% | No | Final day of placement |
Assessment Type 1: Viva/oral examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 4/5 of placement
Weighting: 30%
You will provide a handover of a patient you have been involved with during your placement and describe and justify evidence based assessment and treatment choices using sound clinical reasoning.
Assessment Type 1: Log book
Indicative Time on Task 2: 4 hours
Due: 9am Monday following placement
Weighting: 0%
This is a hurdle assessment task (see assessment policy for more information on hurdle assessment tasks)
You will submit a Clinical Placement Logbook along with a Logbook Summary at the completion of this clinical placement.
Assessment Type 1: Clinical performance evaluation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours
Due: Week 3 of placement
Weighting: 0%
You will assess their own performance and behaviour in the clinical setting at the midpoint of the unit, using the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP). Your self assessment will be compared with the Clinical Educators assessment at the midpoint of the placement.
Assessment Type 1: Clinical performance evaluation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 2 hours
Due: Final day of placement
Weighting: 0%
You will assess your own performance and behaviour in the clinical setting at the completion of the unit, using the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP). Your self assessment will be compared with the Clinical Educators assessment at the completion of the unit.
Assessment Type 1: Clinical performance evaluation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 1 hours
Due: Week 3 of placement
Weighting: 0%
The primary Clinical Educator will provide feedback on your performance and behaviour in the clinical setting at the midpoint of the unit, using a national standardised tool, the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP).
Assessment Type 1: Clinical performance evaluation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 1 hours
Due: Final day of placement
Weighting: 70%
At the completion of the unit the primary Clinical Educator will assess your performance and behaviour in the clinical setting using the Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice (APP) which will be used to evaluate achievement of unit learning outcomes.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Unit Organisation
This is a ten credit point unit that runs as a 5-week block clinical placement. Further information is available via the DPTClinical Doctor of Physiotherapy iLearn for your cohort. http://ilearn.mq.edu.au
Assumed knowledge
This unit builds on your learning in the previous two semesters and assumes you have a sound basic knowledge in all core areas of physiotherapy including pre-requisite knowledge areas such as musculoskeletal anatomy.
Teaching and Learning Strategy
In this unit students spend 5 weeks at clinical sites, including hospitals and private practices, in order to integrate their theoretical knowledge in clinical settings of each of the core areas of (cardiorespiratory, neurological and musculoskeletal) physiotherapy.
Textbooks and Readings
The texts and other resources used during the previous two semesters will be useful when completing this unit. In addition, resources specific to clinical education and to specific areas of clinical physiotherapy are available on the Physiotherapy Clinical Education iLearn site in the Resources section.
Technology and Equipment
Equipment has been purchased with the use of Health Workforce Australia establishment funding and is available for use at each clinical site. This will include iPads, laptops and other patient/education-related equipment such as textbooks and anatomical models.
Attendance
Individual clinic descriptors and clinical calendars should be used to confirm dates and times of attendance for your clinical placement.
This information is available via the DPTClinical Doctor of Physiotherapy iLearn for your cohort. http://ilearn.mq.edu.au
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
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This is the first special circumstances offering of this unit, however the unit is conducted in the same format as the standard weekday offering of this unit. Previous offerings of this unit have been under the code PHTY809. The assessment for this unit has changed from 2019. Concordance and logbooks have been removed as a weighted assessments, however remain within the assessment schedule. An additional assessment, a clinical handover and viva examination has replaced these assessment.