Courses Handbook 2009

306928 (v.1) Clinical Reasoning 650


Area: School of Physiotherapy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** 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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Evaluation of theories on a combination of scientific rationale and an empirical approach to physiotherapy practice. The clinical reasoning process critically examines clinicians' existing belief systems, encourages critical inquiry and facilitates hypothetico-deductive and inductive strategies. The processes used include pattern recognition and hypotheses testing, factors influencing clinical decision-making, errors of reasoning, and reflective clinical practice.
** 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: 061701 Physiotherapy
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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