Some placement settings may involve contact with individuals under 18. All students must present a satisfactory DBS check as a condition of offer.
Exclusions
Description
This required component will provide a transition to clinical practice offering students opportunities to act as participant observers in both service learning and practice placement settings. Work-based learning will take place in clinical settings currently used around the West Midlands and beyond.
The student will have an identified clinical educator within a health care setting where they will have the opportunity to use and develop clinical knowledge and skills acquired during the previous modules, components and placement 1. The opportunity will exist to learn new profession-specific skills and to acquire new knowledge.
The students will gain experience of physiotherapy practice within a clinical setting. Teaching and learning methods will include treating patients with the guidance of a clinical educator, observation of experienced clinicians treating patients, tutorial, seminars, discussion and participation in/observation of clinics, case conferences, and ward rounds as appropriate.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
Demonstrate resourcefulness and variety in planning and developing learning within the clinical area
Demonstrate clinical reasoning skills enabling development of problem lists and treatment plans to enable effective assessment and treatment of a range of patient presentations
Identify psychosocial, cultural and environmental issues in patient management
Select and safely apply effective treatment programmes
Demonstrate a variety of communication skills across a wide range of service users with a variety of challenges to communication
Demonstrate efficient organisational skills in the time management of patients skills appropriate to clinical area
Demonstrate effective communication skills with educators and the multidisciplinary team (MDT) – engaging with the process of MDT communication and working
Demonstrate active participation in MDT working, reflecting on the function of MDT appropriate to clinical area and engaging in inter-professional learning within the MDT
Assessment
39198-01 : Placement 2 marks : Fieldwork - Practical (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
Assessment:
Assessment of clinical competence using Professional Assessment Development form (100%) – Pass/Fail – grading offered for feedback purposes only
