This will be the final clinical practical and written examination. This will be a practical, verbal and written assessment components related to your clinical knowledge and skills in line with the Podiatry Competency Standards developed by the Australian & New Zealand Podiatry Accreditation Council (2015). The assessment may include written, verbal and practical station/s. The assessment task may last for up to 90 minutes. Based on clinical scenario/s or patient/s presentations you will be required to discuss (either verbally and/or written) and/or perform aspects of relevant history taking, diagnosis, assessment, treatment and overall management of the patient/s and/or clinical scenario/s presented and complete relevant patient documentation. All assessments may be video and/or audio-recorded for moderation purposes. You are expected to arrive at least 15 minutes before the allocated start time for the OSCE and to wear full clinical uniform with enclosed shoes. The OSCE is closed book. Formative feedback (where possible) will be provided to the student directly following the assessment. Further detail for this assessment task will be made available via the Unit Moodle site during term.

Students will be assessed on their clinical knowledge and skills in line with the Podiatry Competency Standards developed by the Australian & New Zealand Podiatry Accreditation Council (2015). 

In order to be eligible to PASS the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) you must:

1) achieve a minimum overall grade of 50% for the OSCE.

If you do not meet the above criterion of a minimum overall grade of 50%, you may be eligible for a supplementary assessment providing you meet the requirements as stipulated in the CQUniversity Grades and Results Procedure and this will be determined by the Unit Coordinator.

This written assessment is the final written assessment associated with your honours. This write-up will form part of your thesis and will follow on from the research project completed in Podiatry Clinical Practice 4 (PODI14008). You will complete your final write-up of the thesis. This written component should include: two thesis chapters: 1.) a small background chapter (no more than 6 pages) and 2.) a small discussion chapter (no more than 6 pages). You will need to combine all of your research work (e.g. SLR) and relevant appendices (e.g. search strategy) into a thesis format and submit it via Moodle. Further information will be provided via the Moodle site.

Formatting requirements:

Size 12 Arial font

1.5 cm line spacing

3 cm left margin and 1.5 cm right margin 

Referencing should follow the APA format. For further information please refer to the Unit Moodle site.

This assessment task is worth 40% of your overall grade. Each component of the assessment task will be weighted as such:

• 35% written task,
• 5% supervisor mark.

APA referencing system is used for all written assessments.

Further detail regarding this assessment task will be provided in the beginning weeks of the term.

If you are late submitting your assessment penalties will be applied according to the CQUniversity Assessment Policy and Procedures (Higher Education Coursework).

Any demonstrated plagiarism by an individual student will be managed in the following manner:

• The individual student will be managed according to the CQUniversity Academic Misconduct Procedure policy.

You will complete an internal clinical placement at the relevant CQUniversity health clinic. The internal clinical placement is two days each week for up to 6 weeks. During this time you will provide podiatric care to a diverse range of patients with supervision. Internal Clinical Placement (96 hours / 2 days per week for 6 weeks) will be every Tuesday and Wednesday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Internal clinical placement will take place on the following weeks: week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12

The target dates for External Clinical Placement (200 hours / 5 weeks) are the 26th of August to the 27th of September 2019 (inclusive). Placement will take place during term time and will commence the start of week 6 and finish the end of week 10.

Details of individual placement locations will be provided to you during the term. External clinical placement may be located either in a metropolitan area or in a rural or remote area. Please note that you may be required to travel for placement at your own expense. 

You must show evidence that you have met all the pre-clinical placement requirements (available on the Moodle site) prior to commencing placement; failure to provide the required documentation will mean that you will be unable to attend any placement until the missing documentation has been supplied. You will be required to make up all missed placement days. You are required to wear the approved CQUniversity podiatry clinical uniform and to project a professional image at all times. If you are deemed to be unprofessional or if your behaviour is inappropriate, you will be dismissed from clinic and receive one written warning. You will be marked as absent and you will be required to make-up the clinic session.  If the identified behaviour is repeated, it will be deemed as professional misconduct and you will be managed in accordance to the Student Behavioural Misconduct Procedure. Please review the policy available on the Moodle site.

Internal Placement: Clinical Placement  Handbook 

The internal clinical placement is pass/fail and each student's grade is assessed using the Clinical Placement Handbook (available on the Moodle site). To PASS internal clinical placement you must complete all competencies / assessments listed in Part A and Part B. You must pass both part A and part B to pass the assessment overall. In part A, there are 31 manual skills, you must be assessed as 'competent' in all 31 tasks in order to pass part A of your clinical handbook. In part B, there are 14 assessment tasks, you must be assessed as 'competent' in all 14 in order to pass part B of your clinical handbook. Failure to meet all the competency tasks will result in the following: 

You will be required to attend make-up sessions (organised in vacation/ review time) in order to address the missing competencies (there will be no rescheduling of these make-up sessions). 

If you fail to attend these sessions OR fail to achieve the necessary competencies then:

You will be assessed as "Not competent" and will fail this assessment task. Failure of this assessment task will result in a Fail grade for this unit. 

Clinical placement is compulsory requiring 100% attendance rate. 

External Placement: The Learning Contract must be submitted 2 weeks (10 working days) prior to the allocated placement commencement. The student must submit this to the Unit Coordinator for review and sign-off at least two weeks prior to placement commencement. 

The following documentation must be completed and submitted within 1 week after the placement has been completed: Learning Contract, Log Book Reflections, Time Sheet, Clinical Supervisor Report, and Student Evaluation of the Clinical Placement. 

Timely submission of ALL above documents are mandatory. Any documents missing or incomplete will result in the student being awarded a "Fail" grade for this task. 

External placement has a pass/fail requirement. External supervisors and other relevant academic staff will assess whether students have satisfactorily met the Podiatry Competency Standards for Australia and New Zealand (2015) during their external placement. External clinical placement is compulsory requiring 100% attendance rate. You are required to wear the approved CQUniversity podiatry clinical uniform and to project a professional image at all times. 

Note: Students who miss clinical placement should review the  Clinical Placement Handbook and the Work-Integrated Learning/Student Placement Policy and Procedure.

Important information regarding clinical placement: 

• Students who are absent from clinical placement must themselves notify the External Clinical Supervisor, the Unit Coordinator, the Clinical Placement Coordinator and the Health Clinic Administration staff before 8:00 am on the allocated clinical learning experience for that day. Students are expected to arrive at the clinic before 8:00 am. Students who do not contact the above-mentioned personnel and who are more than 10 minutes late, will be dismissed from clinic and will be required to make up the day. 

• Students are to provide the Unit Coordinator with a medical certificate within five working days after the absence. Any medical certificate supplied after the 5 working days will not be considered and you will be marked absent for that day. 

• Absences will need to be made up one for one. A maximum of 5 days, during review and vacation weeks, can be made up for internal clinical placement that is missed. Failure to make up missed clinical placement days will result in a "Fail" grade for this assessment task, and a subsequent "Fail" grade for this unit. If you are absent for more than 5 days, with valid supporting medical documents, your case will be forwarded to the Head of Course and the Deputy Dean of Learning and Teaching for consideration. For external clinical days which are missed, the following applies: 

• 1-2 days – You are encouraged to negotiate make-up times with placement supervisor. 
• 3- 5 days– You will need to negotiate make up times with the placement supervisor and the academic clinical supervisor. 
• >6 days –You are required to undertake another complete placement. 

Please note that your grade will remain as 'PO - Practicum Outstanding' until the placement days are fulfilled. 

• The student should be aware that the allocation of clinical placement takes precedence over any personal commitments.

• Students who do not notify the relevant people (External Clinical Supervisor, Unit Coordinator & Clinical Placement Coordinator) regarding their absences and who do not attend an allocated placement will receive a Fail grade for this assessment task.

Students will have opportunity to present their research findings to their peers. The PowerPoint presentation should cover a summary of the key components of your research. Referencing should follow the APA format. For further information please see the Unit Moodle site.

Formatting requirements:

Size 12 Arial font

1.5 cm line spacing

The marking guide (rubric) and feedback sheet will be made available in Moodle.

The presentation must be referenced using the APA referencing system and must not exceed the time allocation, please note there is no 10% allowance for this presentation. If the presentation exceeds the time limit, then any additional content that is over the time limit will not be assessed by the examiner. If you are late submitting your assessment penalties will be applied according to the CQUniversity Assessment Policy and Procedures (Higher Education Coursework).