Program Overview

My Professional Practice Space

Overview

My Professional Practice Space is a free online learning management system designed for allied health students and educators. The system aims to develop the skills and knowledge of allied health students to work with and respond to the goals and needs of National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants who experience disability and complex support needs.

Course Structure

The learning management system includes six core topic areas that provide:

• Guidance on working with people with disability in the community
• An introduction to telehealth practice
• An overview of the NDIS
• Information on the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
• Details regarding the NDIS workforce
• An outline of the provision of allied health services within the NDIS

Additional resources include:

• An allied health placement starter kit, which contains further information and tools for educators to support and engage students throughout each placement
• Site-specific student learning information
• A module that provides examples of current professional practice collaborations between the Monash University School of Primary and Allied Healthcare and partner organizations

Learning Objectives

After completing the six core modules, allied health students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate foundational knowledge and understanding of the NDIS and NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
2. Identify key principles and considerations for disability practice, including a strengths-based enablement approach; assessment selection; report writing and documentation; and service provision using both face-to-face and telehealth practice methods
3. Identify key telehealth principles necessary to consider for both practice education and future clinical work
4. Apply clinical reasoning (e.g., procedural, interactive, narrative, and ethical reasoning) in various contexts, such as with people with disability in the community, the NDIS, and telehealth
5. Apply relevant practice models and frameworks to learning management system activities, supervision sessions, and direct clinical work, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE)

Assessment

The learning management system has practice scenarios and exemplars; self-assessment quizzes; reflective tools and other activities that support students' learning and placement supervision; however, there is no formal assessment.

Faculty Biographies

• Associate Professor Libby Callaway: Independent Living Stream Lead, Rehabilitation, Ageing & Independent Living (RAIL) Research Centre, School of Primary & Allied Healthcare; Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Department, School of Primary & Allied Healthcare

Terms and Conditions

This course is provided by Monash Centre for Professional Development and Monash Online Education.