OT4101:06
Advanced Rural or Urban Practice (Honours)
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
39 hours supervision, 52 hours flexible contact, 500 hours clinical placement. Semester 1.
Available to level 4 occupational therapy students enrolled in the honours course.
This subject is a fieldwork companion subject to OT4102 and is in place of OT4001 . 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 with 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. 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 clinical fieldwork report (pass/fail); attendance record (pass/fail); individual learning contract with supervisor (20%); develop professional portfolio/graduate profile (50%); centre specific project (30%). The clinical fieldwork performance report must be passed for accreditation. The learning contract, professional portfolio/graduate profile and project provide a University grade for this subject.