Overview
Clinical Practice 5 provides you with your fifth block of practical experience within a chiropractic clinic. Under decreasing guidance from your clinic supervisors, you will work as a functional team member and use the theoretical knowledge and practical skills developed in the previous four clinical units. Therefore, you will be expected to demonstrate this increased knowledge and skill by delivering patient assessment and treatment. You will begin to actively lead clinical decision making and management planning discussions. During this unit you will be able to undertake many clinical tasks independently. This intern experience is a valuable bridge between university and professional practice.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: CHIR20009 Clinical Practice 4
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE
Some students would have liked more clinical genAI case prompts to be provided for practice.
It is recommended that the unit coordinator consider generating a library of genAI clinical case prompts.
Feedback from SUTE
Some students would have liked more information about the external placements earlier in the term.
It is recommended that the unit coordinator ensure information about the external placements is available from the start of term.