13133 (v.3) Podiatric Practice 357

Area:

Department of Podiatry

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

15.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Clinical Practice:

4 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

6891 (v.6) Podiatric Practice 258 or any previous version
AND
6895 (v.5) Podiatric Studies 258 or any previous version
AND
8227 (v.6) Podology 258 or any previous version
AND
8246 (v.9) Podiatric Medicine 258 or any previous version
AND
8248 (v.9) Podiatric Orthopaedics 258 or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

13131 (v.3) Podiatric Medicine 357
AND
13132 (v.3) Podiatric Orthopaedics 357
AND
13134 (v.3) Podiatric Studies 357

Syllabus:

Students undertake a clinical program which includes training clinics, hospitals and private practice affiliations. Confidential discussions of clinical findings and working diagnosis with patients. The Australian health care system. Organisation and economics. The role of podiatry in health care - public and private sectors. Ethical principles, rules and concepts. Confidentiality. Ethical clinical decision making. Informed consent - shared decision making. The ethical ideal and legal requirements for validity of consent.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

061713 Podiatry

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External