Program Overview

Program Overview

The Transition to Physiotherapy Clinical Practice (Honours) subject is a capstone course designed for students in the Honours stream, preparing them for the transition from student to graduate entry health professional. This subject focuses on legal, ethical, and culturally-responsive professional practice, critical thinking and reflection skills, and creating collaborative healthcare partnerships.

Subject Details

• Subject Code: PHS404
• Duration: One session
• School: School of Community Health
• Enrolment Restrictions: This subject is restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours).
• Prerequisites: PHS401

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Identify and prioritise professional learning needs, and implement realistic goals and strategies to encourage ongoing professional growth
• Demonstrate adaptive, respectful, and responsive communication to reflect the purpose, context, culture, literacy, ethical, legal, and/or professional requirements of the task or interaction
• Build effective interprofessional partnerships through proactive monitoring of group processes, and timely and effective responses to identified barriers
• Contribute effectively to discipline-specific knowledge, and participate in collective reasoning and shared decision-making which enhances client healthcare
• Demonstrate appropriate decision-making after having considered all relevant legal, professional, ethical standards, and codes of physiotherapy practice

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• Transition from student to health professional, including personal and professional sustainability
• Critical reflection on professional practice
• Critical evaluation of own performance
• Self-management of professional growth
• Peer evaluation
• Developing collaborative healthcare partnerships to enable effective interprofessional practice: conflict resolution, team functioning, leadership, role clarification, communication
• Palliative care
• Preparing to enter the workforce - job applications, interviews, workforce culture, legal requirements of professional practice

Workplace Learning

This subject contains a 25-day compulsory workplace learning component, which is a capstone clinical placement. Students will be expected to attain the level of graduate entry practice and will be assessed against the Australian Physiotherapy Standards.

Special Resources

Students are required to attend a full-time clinical placement, with associated accommodation and transport costs being the responsibility of the individual student.