Overview
In this unit, you will continue to integrate the material studied within the chiropractic course. You will also further the development of your critical thinking skills and capacity to assess, diagnosis and manage unusual neuromusculoskeletal conditions and non-neuromuscular conditions. In addition, there will be the usage of clinical scenarios in the geriatric and Aboriginal and Torres Islander populations. You will understand management approaches to chiropractic care including integration of the principles and practice of the science, art, and philosophy of chiropractic. Management approaches include prevention, advice on healthy lifestyles, self-managed care, rehabilitation, and the utilisation of clinical outcome measures, specific to the population groups. You will appreciate the importance of integrating knowledge and skills to support clinical decision-making and be willing to adapt your decision-making and management approaches with the guidance from supervisors and mentors.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: CHIR20011 Clinical Practice 5 and CHIR20012 Advanced Clinical Development 2 and CHIR20015 Techniques and Related Research Co-requisite: CHIR20013 Clinical Practice 6
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 3 - 2019
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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 Verbal comment from student to coordinator.
The prac class was re-scheduled on a number of occasions. This is poor planning.
The practical sessions should be scheduled well in advance and the date adhered to by staff.
Feedback from Student email to coordinator.
The Echo 360 recordings were hard to hear and there was too much information on the power points.
The Echo 360 recordings and power points for 2018 should be replaced with new versions for 2019.
Feedback from "Have your say" comment.
Students commented that they really like the topics in this unit and that the unit has really helped prepare them for private practice.
Whilst the delivery of the material should be enhanced in 2019, the topic areas should remain the same.
Feedback from "Have your say" comment.
Students commented that there were mistakes with the recordings and that the feedback on returned assessments were too general.
The lectures were delivered by a casual lecturer who had not previously taught for CQU. Appropriate training on the use of CQU IT devices and systems should be provided to all casual staff teaching into a unit.
- Explain the morphology of a clinical condition according to its aetiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment options.
- Evaluate findings and formulate a diagnosis, clinical impression, management plan and prognosis from a case history and physical assessment, taking into consideration patient safety and any contraindications.
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards.
- Apply humanistic factors involving communication skills and bio-psychosocial awareness, relative to the patient-practitioner interface.
This is a unit to assist the student develop their individualised pathway towards strengthening the majority of elements and performance indicators of CCEA’s Accreditation Standards for areas considered ‘clinical interest’ as opposed to general practice. In total, this unit will address aspects of Unit 6 Patient Assessment, Unit 7 Diagnostic Decision Making, Unit 8 Planning of Patient Care, Unit 9 Implementation of Care, and Unit 3 Professional Interaction. There will be some elements addressed from Unit 10 Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and Unit 11 Professional Scientific Development.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 30% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||
| 3 - Examination - 30% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | ||||
| 2 - Communication | ||||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||
| 4 - Research | ||||
| 5 - Self-management | ||||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||
| 7 - Leadership | ||||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Online Test - 30% | ||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 30% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Vancouver
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
a.vitiello@cqu.edu.au
h.halim@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Understanding the patient
In this lecture, patients presenting with previous medical examination findings and common medications will be discussed. Students will be provided with a better understanding of the clinical relevance of these situations.
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Lecture 2: Understanding the patient 2
In this lecture, different cultures and demographics will be discussed. Students will be provided with a better understanding of the clinical relevance and management strategies for these factors.
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Lecture 3: Cross culture interactions and ascertaining information
In this lecture, students will be introduced to methods for ascertaining information from patients that may present with different cultural backgrounds.
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Lecture 4: Managing the complex patient
In this lecture, students will explore management of patients with a range of conditions that may impact on their behaviour or response to care.
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Lecture 5: Managing a terminally ill patient
In this lecture, students will explore the supportive role that a chiropractor can play in managing a terminally ill patient.
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Lecture 6: Uncommon peripheral entrapments
In this lecture, students will explore uncommon peripheral entrapment sites and management strategies.
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Lecture 7: Rehabilitation of uncommon conditions 1
In lectures 7 and 8, students will explore rehabilitation strategies that can be used in chiropractic clinics for uncommon conditions.
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Lecture 8: Rehabilitation of uncommon conditions 2
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Lecture 9: Selecting the correct imaging
This lecture will explore msk and non-msk imaging. Students will be provided with information to assist their clinical decision making.
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Lecture 10: Uncommon conditions that present to chiropractors 1
In these lectures, students will explore and discuss uncommon conditions that present to chiropractors. Sometimes these conditions will mimic neuromusculoskeletal complaints and other times not. By the end of this series, students will be confident of how to manage uncommon presentations both in house and triaging such patients to the correct healthcare provider.
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Lecture 11: Uncommon conditions that present to chiropractors 2
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Lecture 12: Uncommon conditions that present to chiropractors 3
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1 Online Test
This online test will involve multiple choice and short answer questions. There will be a total of 50 questions to be completed in 45 minutes. The test will cover content from week 1-6.
Week 7 Friday (10 Jan 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
completed via Moodle. Quiz will start at 4:15pm
Week 8 Wednesday (15 Jan 2020)
via Moodle
Students will be required to score a minimum of 50% on this online test. The test will be administered and graded through Moodle, however, it will be cross checked by the coordinator to ensure the short answer questions are marked appropriately.
For the short answer questions - the answers will be marked based on demonstrating knowledge, application of knowledge to clinical scenarios and grammar.
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
2 Written Assessment
In this written assignment, you will take the opportunity to explore the impacts of wider context factors on patient encounters, compliance and outcomes. You will critically reflect on the role of a modern healthcare professional in addressing or acknowledging these factors in management and care planning. You are welcome to use as an example a de-identified patient that you have encountered in the clinic as the focus of your assessment however it is imperative that you address the broader concepts in relation to the situation you use to support your paper. This assessment will be 1000 words +/- 10% and will require a minimum of 5 recent and relevant references.
Week 9 Wednesday (22 Jan 2020) 5:00 pm AEST
via Moodle
Week 11 Wednesday (5 Feb 2020)
via Moodle
The criteria for this assessment will include;
- Overall task completion
- Language & grammar
- Critical reflection, knowledge and logical approach
- Vancouver referencing & the use of additional external references or resources
- General composition and overall written presentation
A detailed assessment marking rubric, outlining specific requirements will be available in Moodle.
No submission method provided.
- Evaluate findings and formulate a diagnosis, clinical impression, management plan and prognosis from a case history and physical assessment, taking into consideration patient safety and any contraindications.
- Apply the appropriate chiropractic approach to treatment (within the scope of practice) that includes technique/skills, exercise/rehabilitation, health promotion, prevention, lifestyle advice and self-managed care in a professional and ethical way in accordance to the chiropractic code of conduct and professional standards.
- Apply humanistic factors involving communication skills and bio-psychosocial awareness, relative to the patient-practitioner interface.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
Examination
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
