The main focus of any assessment in this unit is to prepare you for all subsequent units over the educational journey. As such, the on-campus activities are provided to give you on-going feedback (formative in nature) and you will have the opportunity to work with the unit coordinator and/or tutors as well as classmates to assist you.

There will be weekly on-campus activities that will vary in requirements and expectations (Quiz or Practical application). Because of the nature of the pedagogical approach in Chiropractic (i.e. student-directed flipped classroom), you will be expected to develop appropriate preparation, study and organisational skills required of a professional, to be accomplished BEFORE these on-campus activities are delivered. They will assess material covered from the previous week's learning activities. If you have reviewed the material, they should not be a challenge.

These short activities will be reviewed/marked/discussed in class thus providing immediate feedback and will be graded on a pass/fail basis. All documents after the class will be handed back to the tutor. At the conclusion of the term, they will be collected and students will be required to pass at least 8 in order to pass the unit.

Students may work in groups to complete some or most of the activities and will be permitted to use text or on-line resources to assist in providing their answers, if required.

The on-campus activities are formative in nature and should assist in preparing you in learning the material throughout this term.

There will not be a specific marking rubric for each activity.

You will receive a PASS/FAIL for all of the activities which is required to continue to CHIR11003 in Term 2 - regardless of the OSCE practical and Final Examination results.

In practice the Chiropractor is required to combine a variety of clinical skills, all of these techniques must be mastered. The objective structured clinical exam (OSCE) is made up of three individual stations that reflect various aspects of the clinical skills used by a Chiropractor.

Each of these stations will require the student to complete various techniques over a maximum 5 minute period, with an allowance of 1 minute reading/planning time prior to the commencement of the assessment.

Station 1 - You will be required to perform two tasks to demonstrate competence from the list below demonstrating the correct technique, appropriate patient handling and correlating your findings by sharing them with the examiner:

1. Postural analysis;
2. Static palpation;
3. Muscle ancillary techniques.

The tasks will be allocated to you randomly according to a series of station cards which have been previously composed.

Station 2 Spinal - You will be required to perform two tasks to demonstrate competence from the list below demonstrating the correct technique, appropriate patient handling and correlating your findings by sharing them with the examiner:

1. Gross range of motion assessment of a spinal region;
2. Segmental range of motion assessment of a spinal segment.

The tasks will be allocated to you randomly according to series of previously composed station cards.

Station 3 Peripheral - You will be required to perform two tasks to demonstrate competence from the list below demonstrating the correct technique, appropriate patient handling and correlating your findings by sharing them with the examiner:

1. Gross range of motion assessment of an upper AND lower extremity region;
2. Passive or end range of motion assessment of an upper AND lower extremity region.

The tasks will be allocated to you randomly according to a series of previously composed station cards.

Please note:

Can you demonstrate competence in psychomotor skills expected at this introductory level in an applied context?

Can you demonstrate competence in evaluating the spine and peripheral joints (observation, range of motion, static palpation)?

Station 1 - Your performance will be graded using a marking rubric which will be provided to you in Week 10 when the unit focus switches to exam preparation. This marking rubric will grade your performance according to the following area:

• Patient position;
• Appropriate findings noted;
• Understanding of technique application;
• Practitioner positioning;
• Patient handling;
• Examiners over all impression

• Active range of motion;
• Passive range of motion;
• Appropriate interpretation of findings;
• Joint assessment in all 6 degrees of motion;
• Practitioner position;
• Patient position;
• Patient handling;
• Technical performance;
• Examiners over all impression.

Station 3 Peripheral - Your performance will be graded using a marking rubric which will be provided to you in Week 10 when the unit focus switches to exam preparation. This marking rubric will grade your performance according to the following extremity area:

• Active range of motion;
• Passive range of motion;
• Appropriate interpretation of findings;
• Joint assessment in all ranges of motion;
• Practitioner position;
• Patient position;
• Patient handling;
• Technical performance;
• Examiners over all impression.