| Area: |
Department of Podiatry |
| Credits: |
25.0 |
| Contact Hours: |
8.0 |
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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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| Tutorial: |
2 x 1 Hours Weekly |
| Clinical Practice: |
2 x 3 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): |
6890 (v.6) Podiatric Practice 257 or any previous version
AND
8247 (v.8) Podiatric Orthopaedics 257 or any previous version
AND
13129 (v.5) Podiatric Medicine 257 or any previous version
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| Co Requisite(s): |
8246 (v.8) Podiatric Medicine 258
AND
8248 (v.8) Podiatric Orthopaedics 258
AND
302524 (v.4) Podopaediatrics 258 or any previous version
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| Syllabus: |
Podology - rearfoot pathologies - heel spur syndrome, fasciitis, apophysitis, haglands deformity, tarsal tunnel syndrome, coalitions and accessory bones. Specific foot fractures, Jones fracture, posterior process fracture, stress fractures. Clinical - supervised clinical practice. Assessment and examination techniques, therapeutic modalities, case management and clinical discussions. Supervised clinical practice. Interviewing, examination, diagnosis and treatment of common podiatric pathologies. Clinicaltutorials. Concept of total foot care. Relationship of structure and function to dysfunction. Nail surgery - assessment and treatment methodologies, post operative care regimes and management. |
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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: | 61713 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 |
| 2005 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 2 |
Y |
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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 |
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