Overview
The unit will be divided into two main components: pharmacotherapeutics and anaesthesia, specific to podiatry practice. In pharmacotherapeutics, you will gain an understanding of Schedule 2, 3, 4, and 8 medicines administered in common diseases seen in podiatry practice and learn further about their role in the management of disease. In anaesthesia, you will gain advanced knowledge of anaesthetics pertinent to podiatry practice. Topics covered will include pre-surgical history and physical assessment, informed consent, charting, maximum safe dose, and injection instrumentation. You will also begin to practice injection techniques in a simulated setting.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: PODI13007 Clinical Practice 2; BMSC13010 Pharmacology; MPAT12001 Medical Pathophysiology - and Corequisite: PODI13011 Clinical Practice 3
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).
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- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
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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 Unit coordinator reflection
The inclusion of an 'important resources' tab on the Moodle page, including links to eMIMS, Australian Medicines Handbook, Therapeutic Guidelines, and Therapeutic Goods Administration, was useful to orientate students to these important databases.
It is recommended that an 'important resources tab' continues to be implemented on the Moodle page for this unit.
Feedback from Informal student feedback
Repetition has been identified between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics content between BMSC13010 and PODI13015, and this content could be consolidated in PODI13015.
It is recommended that the scaffolding of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics content between BMSC13010 and PODI13015 is reviewed, and content consolidated in PODI13015 where appropriate.
Feedback from Staff feedback
In 2025, the National Prescribing Competencies Framework was updated.
It is recommended that 2026 unit materials include reference to the 2025 update of the National Prescribing Competencies Framework.