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Unit Overview

Description

During this unit students will spend rotations in clinical settings to gain exposure in providing safe and effective patient management. They will also devlope an understanding of the importance of communicating with healthcare teams to collaborate a shared patient care / multidsciplinary approach. It also explores management of the deteriorating patient, cultural safety and therapeutic management of the complex patient.

Credit
6 points
Offering
(see Timetable)
AvailabilityLocationMode
Non-standard teaching periodUWA (Perth)Face to face
Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate an understanding of multidiscplinary approaches to complex lower limb cases taking in patient factors which also include cultural safety and respecting patient decision; (2) demonstrate an understanding of the importance of communicating key information to others in the healthcare team; (3) demonstrate the ability to recognise a deteriorating patient and safely perform advance life support procedures; (4) demonstrate an understanding of therapeutic drug prescribing relevant to management of a complex lower limb case in line with legislative and regulatory requirements of the medication safety standard and Quality Use of Medicines. ; and (5) display professional behaviour in educational and clinical settings.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) assignment/s; (2) oral exam/s; (3) written assessment/s; and (4) Professional behaviour assessment/s. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the oral exam/s, written assessment/s, and Professional behaviour assessment/s components.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)
Dr Jamie Weaver
Unit rules
Prerequisites
Enrolment in
91830 Doctor of Podiatric Surgery (ID 1904)
or 90830 Doctor of Podiatric Surgery (ID 147)
and PODI5511 Advanced Podiatric Medicine I (ID 3775)
, PODI5512 Advanced Podiatric Medicine II (ID 3776)
and PODI5513 Advanced Podiatric Surgery (ID 3777)
Co-requisites
PODI6571 Podiatric Research Project (part-time) (ID 3794)
Incidental fees
Incidental student fees and charges are costs incurred by students as part of their studies at UWA that are in addition to their tuition fees (further information is available here).
Participation in this unit will incur the following incidental fee(s):
Advanced life saving course 1 (estimated cost - 600).
Contact hours
Clinical placement: Approx 90hrs/semester
Texts

McGlamry’s foot and ankle surgery, 5th edition [Authors: Brian Carpenter. Editors: Michelle L. Butterworth, William D. Fishco, John T. Marcoux, Daniel F. Vickers, Ovid Technologies Inc.]

McGlamry’s comprehensive textbook of foot and ankle surgery, 4th Edition. [Authors: E. Dalton McGlamry, Joe T. Southerland]

The Foot and Ankle: Master Techniques in Podiatric Surgery, 1st Edition. [Author: Thomas K. Chang]

Foot and Ankle. 2nd Edition. [Author: David Thordarson]

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