OT4101:12
Advanced Rural or Urban Practice (Honours)
Townsville
Prerequisites: OT3005 OT3101
Inadmissable Subject Combination: OT4001
65 hours supervision, 52 hours flexible contact, 500 hours clinical placement. First semester.
Available to level 4 occupational therapy students enrolled in the honours course.
Staff: Fieldwork Educator, Assoc. Professor J Trevan-Hawke.
The subject will provide a minimum of 500 hours (14 weeks at 36 hours) of advanced supervised clinical placement with flexible support from the University to integrate and develop previously learnt material with new observational and practical clinical training. The placement will be either rural or urban at an advanced level and will enable the student to apply, develop, analyse and integrate the theories, principles and practice of occupational therapy in a variety of settings. Preparation of a thesis is required to demonstrate the student’s ability to analyse data, critically evaluate results and report findings in a scholarly manner.
Students may be required to undertake clinical placement in a facility away from the campus at which they are currently enrolled, at their own expense.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the functions of the human spine and causes of malfunction of the spine;
- appreciate the detailed structure and function of the musculoskeletal and nervous systems and the interrelationships between these systems;
- undertake some of the procedures and methods commonly used in anatomical sciences.
Assessment by assignment (20%); tutorials and practical classes (20%); examination (60%).