Knowing-Self, Professional Practice and Communication
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 60 hours face to face at campus 48 hours Physiotherapy Business WIL throughout semester
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn HB8 HE Block 8 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Admission to MA-PHYS Master of PhysiotherapyAims and objectives
- Apply knowledge of and critically reflect on the professional conduct, scope of practice and duty of care of a physiotherapist within the workplace
- Demonstrate planning for personal and professional career development through critical reflection on university professional and other relevant experience/s
- Demonstrate appropriate workplace behaviours and employability skills essential to working with individuals or teams as a physiotherapist
- Demonstrate effective written and oral communication for different audiences and appropriate to the workplace
- Develop culturally responsive capabilities (respect and self-awareness) so as to understand personal beliefs, assumptions, values, perceptions, attitudes and expectations, and how they impact relationships with groups and individuals including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture |
1.5 |
6 |
9 |
On-campus Lecture Workshop | 3 11 | 2 2 | 6 22 |
Placement | 13.3 | 6 | 80 |
Specified Activities Various |
1 |
6 |
6 |
Unspecified Activities Independent learning |
4.5 | 6 |
27 |
TOTAL |
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| 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
e-Portfolio | Individual | 30% | 1, 4, 5 |
Presentations | Individual | 20% | 1, 4, 5 |
Placement | Individual | 50% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
General skills outcomes
- Problem solving skills
- Analysis skills
- Communication skills
- Ability to work independently
Content
Professional bodies, their organisational structure and behaviour
Roles of the contemporary physiotherapist
Communication (e.g. patient/ team/ family interaction, medicolegal documentation)
Physiotherapy scope of practice and duty of care, codes of professional conduct and ethical practice
Reflective practice and life long learning (e.g. evaluative judgement, giving and receiving feedback)
Resilience and self care
The roles of colonialism and imperialism in Australian society
- Concepts central to Indigenous culture
Study resources
- References.
References
https://www.physiotherapy.asn.au/APAWCM/Resources/Private_Practice_Support/inpractice/APAWCM /Resources/InPractice2025
2. In Public 2025, Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), https://www.physiotherapy.asn.au/DocumentsFolder/APAWCM/Resources/PublicPractice/InPublic_202 5_v2_150526.pdf
3. Professional Code of Conduct (APA): https://www.physiotherapy.asn.au/DocumentsFolder/Advocacy/AIR31_APA_CODE_OF_CONDUCT.pd
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4. Delany C, McLeod S, El-Ansary D, Remedios L and Miller K (2015): Replacing stressful challenges with positive coping strategies: A resilience program for clinical placement learning", Advances in Health Sciences Education. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2015 Dec;20(5):1303-24. doi: 10.1007/s10459- 015-9603-3. Epub 2015 Apr 3.25.
5. Prism website: www.prismbrainmapping.com/
6. Myer Briggs: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test