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EXSS4007: Clinical Placement 1
2024 unit information
This unit is designed to provide students with the opportunity to learn and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities of the clinical exercise physiologist. Students will work under supervision in professional settings and will assist in managing clients with chronic disease, while demonstrating and being assessed on specific clinical practice skills and professional behaviour which are consistent with their stage of learning.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Movement Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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EXSS3024 and EXSS3027 and (EXSS3045 or EXSS3052) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. communicate effectively with clients, carers and general public
- LO2. communicate effectively with peers, colleagues, other health professionals and external agencies
- LO3. effectively communicate exercise physiology data and management plans via oral and written reports or progress notes
- LO4. behave in a professional manner
- LO5. demonstrate reflective practice and a commitment to learning
- LO6. work effectively in a team environment
- LO7. adapt to the practice setting
- LO8. place the role of the clinical exercise physiologist in the wider context of the client’s health care management
- LO9. accurately and efficiently collect subjective and objective data
- LO10. accurately interpret subjective and objective assessment data
- LO11. design safe and effective client-centred interventions
- LO12. facilitate the delivery of a safe and effective client-centred intervention
- LO13. integrate pathology into the planning and delivery of interventions
- LO14. recognise and address key elements of lifestyle modification in client communication and assessment
- LO15. facilitate behaviour change and self-management with clients
- LO16. take an active approach to client safety through risk stratifying, screening, consent, clearance and monitoring processes
- LO17. ensure a safe exercise environment.
- LO18. employ sound clinical reasoning to assessment and intervention decisions that are grounded in risk management
- LO19. self-manage personal risk
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