OT4004 - Advancing Professional Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2019
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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This modular subject will equip students with knowledge and skills to support the advancement of their clinical practice and professional careers. This subject will foster professional development relevant to a variety of specialist and emerging practice domains. The learning activities within the subject will enable in-depth critical examination of the complexities of contemporary and future occupational therapy clinical practice. All students will undertake a core module focusing on the development of professional growth, resilience and employability within contemporary and emerging practice contexts. As part of this, students will engage in a process of targeted reflection in relation to their personal and professional strengths as well as areas for further development. This reflective process will be later drawn on in a series of practice area specific elective modules in order to enable students to situate, personalise and enrich their professional development.

Learning Outcomes

• consolidate their sense of professional identity and resilience as required to articulate and negotiate the occupational therapy role within evolving health care context;
• develop advanced knowledge and skills to support the effective engagement in supervision, mentorship and other professional support processes;
• critically evaluate and apply advanced occupational therapy concepts across a range of professional service delivery sectors;
• synthesise and reframe knowledge of occupational therapy philosophy and practice in examining the potential occupational therapy role within non-traditional and emerging practice areas in rural, remote and tropical contexts;
• evaluate personal and professional competencies and devise individualised strategies to plan future professional growth.

Prerequisites:

HS3401 AND (OT3001 OR OT3010 OR OT3101) AND OT3011 AND 0T3012 AND OT3004 AND OT3005Students must have completed all third year subjects

Availabilities
Townsville, , Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2019
Face to face teaching (Face to Face teaching)
Contact hours:	63 hours - 63 hours over 9 taught days. This will be comprised of one module over three days and three additional modules each of two days in length. 3 hours
Assessment:	presentations (60%); construction of curriculum vitae and written response to job application selection criteria (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	In order to pass this subject, students must attend and participate in 80% of the workshops, submit all pieces of assessment and achieve a minimum of 50% overall (including after the application of any penalties such as late penalties).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.