Area: |
Department of Podiatry |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
15.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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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.4) 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
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Co Requisite(s): |
13131 (v.3) Podiatric Medicine 357
AND
13132 (v.3) Podiatric Orthopaedics 357
AND
13134 (v.3) Podiatric Studies 357
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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. |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Field of Education: |
61700 Rehabilitation Therapies (Narrow Grouping) |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Essential |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 1 |
Y |
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Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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