You will be assessed against a marking rubric specifically designed for this assessment task which will be made available at the beginning of the term.

You will be assessed against a marking rubric specifically designed for this assessment task, which will be made available to you at the beginning of the semester via Moodle. Marking criteria will address components of your submission including but not limited to: Abstract, Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion, as well as adherance to journal formatting requirements.

The practical assessment will be up to 120 minutes long and will assess your clinical knowledge, practical and assessment skills and clinical reasoning. Your practical assessment will include content covered in all units in your podiatry course until the end of Year 4 Term 2. Based on clinical scenarios you will be required to discuss and perform aspects of relevant history taking, diagnosis, assessment, treatment and overall management of the condition and/or clinical scenario 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 practical assessment and to wear full clinical uniform with enclosed shoes. The practical assessment is a closed book assessment task.

You will be assessed according to an assessment rubric made availble to you via moodle during the term.

Internal Clinical Placement: 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 are required to wear the approved CQUniversity podiatry clinical uniform and to project a professional image at all times. Clinical placement is compulsory requiring 100% attendance rate. If you are absent, you will have to follow the "Absentee policy" set out in the internal Clinical Placement handbook.

The Mid and End of Term Assessment Criteria can be found in your Internal Clinical Placement Handbook that will be available on the Moodle site.

You will be required to be assessed as "Competent" for all criteria in the End of Term Assessment. You will also be required to satisfy sections A, B, and C of your internal clinical placement logbook. Failure to achieve this will result in a "Fail" grade for this assessment task and a "Fail" grade for this unit.

External Clinical Placement:

Before 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 Clinical Placement Officer for review and sign-off at least two weeks prior to placement commencement.

After placement: The following documentation must be completed and submitted within 1 week after the placement has been completed: Learning Contract, Log Book Reflections, Time Sheet, Student Evaluation of the Clinical Placement and Clinical Supervisor Report . Students will be required to fill in their Learning Contract, Log Book Reflections, Time Sheet, and Student Evaluation of the Clinical Placement. External supervisors and other relevant academic staff will assess whether students have satisfactorily met the Professional Capabilities for Podiatrists during their external placement. This will be recorded in the Clinical Supervisor Report. Students must be scored as being competent (a score of '2') against each of the professional capabilities for Podiatrists in order to pass their external clinical placement.

External placement has a pass/fail requirement. Timely submission of ALL above documents are mandatory. Failure to submit any documents and failure to meet the competency standards will result in a "Fail" grade for this assessment task and a "Fail" grade for this unit.