Overview
In this unit, you will implement podiatric surgical techniques required to perform safe and competent nail surgery. Specific emphasis is placed on surgical principles, expanding and reinforcing your understanding and practice of infection control and clinical and theatre protocols. You will gain knowledge and skills in surgical management and learn the theory behind a range of surgical procedures relevant to podiatric practice. The scope of podiatric surgery practice is explored with consideration of the ethical and medico-legal implications.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: PODI13011 Podiatry Clinical Practice 3 and PODI13015 Advanced Pharmacology in Podiatry Practice and Corequisite: PODI14008 Podiatry Clinical Practice 4
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 1 - 2024
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 Undergraduate 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 Unit coordinator reflection
Students may benefit from inclusion of additional learning materials relating to orthopaedic surgical procedures of the foot
It is recommended that additional learning materials relating to orthopaedic surgical procedures of the foot are developed and included in future offerings of this unit
- Demonstrate advanced professional and ethical behaviour including use of effective communication skills and reporting related to surgery in podiatry practice
- Examine the anatomy of the foot with particular emphasis on the nerves and associated structures to enable safe and effective delivery of local anaesthesia
- Discuss varied foot and ankle surgical procedures relevant to podiatry practice
- Evaluate the indications, contraindications, and risks, including adverse reactions and medicolegal implications, of surgical procedures and administration of local anaesthesia conducted by podiatrists
- Perform nail surgery safely and competently including postoperative management and related patient education.
Per NPC1322
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) - 50% | |||||
| 2 - Professional Practice Placement - 0% | |||||
| 3 - In-class Test(s) - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Zoom access for weekly meetings
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.purvis@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Medicolegal requirements for surgery and infection control.
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Forefoot and midfoot surgical procedures.
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Rearfoot and ankle surgical procedures.
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Foot surgery referrals and complications.
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No PODI14014 lecture.
PODI14010 practical day.
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No lecture this week.
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Anatomy review and local anaesthetics.
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Clinical skills in nail surgery part 1.
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Clinical skills in nail surgery part 2.
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Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE).
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Revision of learnt material.
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Practical full day sessions May 22nd/23rd, 2024.
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In-Class test.
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The unit coordinator and main person of contact for PODI14014 is Lecturer in Podiatry, Sally Purvis.
s.purvis@cqu.edu.au
All lecture material and practical days will be presented by podiatric surgeon Leah Cook.
1 Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
For this assessment task, you will be required to undertake an Objective Structured Clinical Examination to demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and competence relating to surgical podiatry. More details regarding this assessment task will be made available to you on the PODI14014 Moodle site. You will be required to attend on-campus for this assessment.
Week 9 Wednesday (8 May 2024) 1:00 pm AEST
You will be required to attend campus on Wednesday May 8th, 2024 to undertake the PODI14014 OSCE.
Week 10 Wednesday (15 May 2024)
OSCE results will be returned to students within one (1) week of being performed.
This assessment task will be marked against a specifically developed marking rubric reflective of the clinical scenarios presented.
- Demonstrate advanced professional and ethical behaviour including use of effective communication skills and reporting related to surgery in podiatry practice
- Examine the anatomy of the foot with particular emphasis on the nerves and associated structures to enable safe and effective delivery of local anaesthesia
- Discuss varied foot and ankle surgical procedures relevant to podiatry practice
- Evaluate the indications, contraindications, and risks, including adverse reactions and medicolegal implications, of surgical procedures and administration of local anaesthesia conducted by podiatrists
- Perform nail surgery safely and competently including postoperative management and related patient education.
2 Professional Practice Placement
You will be required to attend campus for two (2) days of compulsory Professional Practice Placement. This placement will be facilitated by a podiatric surgeon, and you will be provided with the opportunity to develop your surgical podiatry skills to ensure you are meeting safety expectations. Students must pass all areas of their surgical clinic logbook in order to pass the unit. More information regarding this assessment item will be made available to you on the PODI14014 Moodle site.
Week 11 Wednesday (22 May 2024) 8:00 am AEST
You will required to participate in surgical podiatry procedures on May 22nd/23rd.
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (5 June 2024)
Results will be returned to students within 2 weeks of practical placement participation.
You will be assessed against a specifically designed marking rubric for this assessment. The podiatric surgeon, together with the podiatry coordinator or unit coordinator, will be assessing your proficiency in this unit.
- Demonstrate advanced professional and ethical behaviour including use of effective communication skills and reporting related to surgery in podiatry practice
- Perform nail surgery safely and competently including postoperative management and related patient education.
3 In-class Test(s)
You will be required to attend campus to demonstrate your knowledge of surgical podiatry in the form of a closed-book, in-class test. This test will be examining your knowledge of all presented learning material from weeks 1-12. More information regarding this assessment task will be made available to you on the PODI14014 Moodle site.
Week 12 Wednesday (29 May 2024) 1:00 pm AEST
You are to attend your usual lecture room at your usual time. You are to arrive at least 10 minutes early to ensure prompt commencement of this assessment.
Exam Week Wednesday (12 June 2024)
Marks will be returned within two (2) weeks of the test completion date.
You will be marked against a specifically developed marking rubric for this assessment task.
- Examine the anatomy of the foot with particular emphasis on the nerves and associated structures to enable safe and effective delivery of local anaesthesia
- Discuss varied foot and ankle surgical procedures relevant to podiatry practice
- Evaluate the indications, contraindications, and risks, including adverse reactions and medicolegal implications, of surgical procedures and administration of local anaesthesia conducted by podiatrists
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?
