The modules on Dementia, Advanced Home Modifications, Pain and Paediatrics will each contain a quiz attached to a case study.  This will occur in the final part of the final day of each module.  Approximately five short-answer questions will relate to the content taught in each module, and each of the case studies will be graded by the module educator.  You must be present in class (either on campus or online as stipulated) to participate in this assessment piece.  Each quiz will hold a total value of 5 marks.  You must obtain 10 out of a total available of 20 marks overall to pass this assessment, and the unit overall.  The quizzes are short-answer and are conducted in-class.  The quizzes are open book and you may consult your notes.  There is no need to cite references.   The purpose of the Case Study Quizzes are to ensure full engagement in each module and translation of knowledge directly to real-world clinical scenarios.  

• Upon direction from the educator (in accordance with the flow and timing of teaching content), the Unit Coordinator will make the case study and questions available to you on Moodle
• Immediately upon that being available, students have 45 minutes (maximum) to complete their open-book quiz (typed or written as per educator instruction)
• Upon completion of your answers, please email it directly to the educator at the email they have supplied to you.
• Any quiz received after the noted deadline (without appropriate, plausible and reasonable explanation as determined by the educator) will be marked as unsubmitted and receive 0 points.
• Each module educator will grade your quiz.  Marks will be supplied to the unit coordinator, who will keep a record of marks, ready for uploading the final total for this assessment piece at the conclusion of the final module.
• If the educator has any specific feedback for you as a group, your Unit Coordinator will ensure you receive it.
• Regular tallies of marks achieved after each module will not be supplied.  You will know from your own answers and any educator feedback to the cohort whether you answered correctly. 
• You will only be contacted individually by the UC if there appears to be a risk of you not passing 

The quizzes are marked against module answers pre-determined by the educator of that specialist module.  There is no rubric for this assessment. 

There are two parts to this assessment:

1) the development of a Knowledge Translation Kit including a poster/infographic or protocol and a podcast or YouTube upload and

2) your recorded 3–5-minute verbal reflection which will articulate your rationale for the chosen Knowledge Translation tools, submitted as an audio file, together with a written bibliography sheet detailing the sources you used to complete your kit. 

Knowledge Translation tools present evidence in concise, clear, user-friendly formats to enhance the uptake of evidence into clinical practice.  Examples of Knowledge Translation tools include clinical practice guidelines, educational resources and patient decision aids.   

You will choose one of the four clinical practice specialisation areas in OCCT14002: 1) pain 2) home assessment and modifications 3) dementia or 4) paediatrics.  You will use current research and evidence to create a Knowledge Translation kit in that field.  Your Knowledge Translation kit will be comprised of two products/tools.  These will be a synthesis of the evidence, delivered via the best medium chosen by you in a way that disseminates the evidence for optimum understanding and uptake by various stakeholders.  You must choose one product/tool from the choices of: 

• poster/infographic or 
• clinical practice guideline/protocol

Your companion product will be a choice between the production of:

• a 15-minute podcast suitable for either the free Spotify for Podcasters or the free Podcast Hosting site PodBean or
• a 15-minute audio and video recording suitable for uploading to YouTube  

The aim of your Knowledge Translation Kit is to ensure that end users (stakeholders such as other practitioners or clients/consumers) receive best clinical service delivery as a result of your information.  It can take years for best practice evidence to filter through and be used on a daily basis clinically.  You must be clear about your audience, and the podcast or YouTube upload must match for the same audience. For example:

- youth who are likely to see an infographic / poster in a public place

- GP waiting room - pinned to the wall or on the moving digital display - to target parents or patients 

- community hall noticeboard or RSL where older people are known to gather

- noticeboard at a local Mens' Shed, CWA etc to target a particular gender in the older persons age group 

- an OT department staff room

- a multidisciplinary team staff room

The Knowledge Translation kit must be visually-appealing (infographic/poster) and appealing to listen to and/or watch (companion podcast, YouTube upload), accessible and presented without clinical terminology and jargon.   Your products must incorporate what the most contemporary state of science is in your chosen area.  As such, your sources will be peer-reviewed journal articles preferably published within the last 5-7 years.  In addition to the complete Knowledge Translation kit, you will upload a bibliography to your assessor providing evidence of all sources used in the development of your kit.   

The due date for this assessment is week 6, by which time you will not have covered all four modules.  This should not sway your choice, as the aim is for you to independently search for the contemporary literature in a clinical area of particular interest to you.  You are welcome to use the resources supplied on Moodle within those modules as a starting point.  A resource folder will be supplied to you in your Assessment Tile containing links and exemplars for inspiration and ideas.  There are also framed exemplars from the 2023 cohort in each OT classroom across the BDG and ROK campus. 

• synthesis of clinical information
• clarity and accessibility of clinical message
• evidence of research to support reflection and KT kit
• visual presentation 
• oral presentation 
• reflection 

Motivational Interviewing via Telehealth. 

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a patient interview style designed to promote behavioural changes in our patients/clients/consumers. Facilitating behaviour change to promote health and wellbeing is a therapeutic skill of great benefit to patient outcomes, transcending specific caseloads. Following on from MI lectures, practical sessions and simulated interviews for practice, this assessment requires you to conduct a patient interview in which you demonstrate the principles of motivational interviewing. The interview will be recorded and observed by the examiner in real-time. Following completion of your interview, you are required to view the recording and complete a rating of your performance using the tool provided, and a written reflection. You will be supplied with a self-assessment template to guide your reflection. The interview will be of 20 minutes duration (maximum).

The method of your motivational interview and thus your assessment will be via a telehealth process. This advances your skills in both motivational interviewing but also in the application of clinical work across technology platforms which may increasingly be part of flexible and accessible patient service offerings. This is assessing graduate-level skills so it is assumed you already have sound skills in setting up the interview space, developing rapport with the patient, ensuring informed consent and utilising professional verbal and non-verbal communication. In this assessment, your skills in evocation, collaboration, supporting autonomy, directing, empathy and asking open-ended questions are the focus. You are demonstrating your ability to facilitate the patient's ownership of goals and actions. The patient/client/consumer will be a standardised patient played by an actor.

You must follow the guidelines supplied on Moodle for your written reflection. Reflections must be a minimum of 1800 words and must not exceed 2500 words (this excludes your references).  The assessment rubric provides guidance for you in how your content and written expression will be assessed. Those students who are able to incorporate and synthesise key content, referencing a wide range of relevant readings, and present it in a concise way are likely to score highly. Your written reflection is your own original work, but you will use a motivational interviewing reflection tool in order to inform a robust analysis of your skills.  You will be supplied with the tool throughout your learning experience.

Please submit the following in one Word file:

·         Cover sheet

·         Reflection (1800-2500 words and reference list)

Suggested headings to guide your reflection 

Overall summary and discussion of the experience (conducting the MI, watching and listening to your recording)

Overall summary and discussion of the scores and comments on your performance on the MITI with suggested subheadings as follows:

                -cultivating change talk

                - softening sustain talk 

                - partnership 

                - empathy

- techniques used or not e.g. OARS, readiness, looking forward and back, decisional balance, querying extremes, change planning 

-MI spirit, MI process and MI traps 

What were your strengths in the motivational interview and why? 

What did not go as well as hoped for in the motivational interview and why?

Application of and skills with Telehealth

What have been some key learnings from this experience? 

What skills have you acquired that you can envisage using in future practice?  

Final statements 

A detailed rubric is supplied for you on Moodle covering the following criteria:

• examiner rating of your adherence to MI principles
• understanding MI principles
• synthesis in selecting and applying relevant information
• evaluation of skills using key literature and evidence
• reflection
• written communication skills