In-class Quizzes consists of two (2) quizzes worth 25% of the overall unit grade.

In-class Quiz 1 (10%) constitutes 10% of the overall grade. It will occur in week 5 and assess content from weeks 1-4 inclusive. In-class Quiz 1 will consist of 30 questions (worth 35 marks) and will have a time limit of 60 minutes. Due: Week 5 Friday (13th August) at 9am.

In-class Quiz 2 (15%) constitutes 15% of the overall grade. It will occur in week 12 and assess content from weeks 5-11 inclusive. In-class Quiz 2 will consist of 45 questions (worth 55 marks) and will have a time limit of 90 minutes. Due: Week 12 Tuesday (5th October) at 8am.

In-class Quiz 1 and 2 are closed book assessments which must be completed at the scheduled time. It is recommended that a laptop be utilised for this assessment, however a tablet is permitted. The questions will be randomly generated from a question bank so that the quizzes may appear differently for each student. In-class Quiz 1 and 2 will consist of some or all of the following categories:

• Multiple choice questions
• True/ false questions
• Short answer questions
• Fill in the missing word(s) questions
• Questions relating to multimedia material (e.g. images, videos)

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All questions will be marked numerically and an overall percentage mark awarded.

Late Arrival to Assessment

You should aim to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the official assessment commencement time. In the extraordinary circumstance that you are late, you will be permitted late entry to your assessment of up to 10 minutes after the official commencement time. The period of lateness will be deducted from your overall assessment time. If you are denied access to the assessment due to lateness (i.e. arriving beyond the permitted late entry period), you should make an application for deferred assessment, which may or may not be approved in line with CQU policy. If the application for deferred assessment is denied, you will receive a grade of zero percent (0%) for the assessment item and will not be eligible for a re-sit but may be eligible for a supplementary assessment in line with CQU policy.

The Therapeutic Exercise Program Group Work Assessment Task is comprised of both a group presentation (with supporting documentation - patient notes and program overview) and an individually written abstract on the design and implementation of a therapeutic exercise program. This assessment task is designed to develop your understanding of physical function, extend your skills in evidence-based practice and patient-centred care and advance your skills in physiotherapy assessment, exercise prescription, patient monitoring and evaluation, and documentation. This task will develop of introductory level skills in communication, team work, research literacy and critical thinking.

Task Overview

As a group, you are required to design and implement an individualised exercise program for one of your group members, or a nominated individual approved on discussion with the unit coordinator. The exercise program must be focused on one of the following parameters of physical capacity:

• Muscle strength
• Muscle power
• Aerobic fitness

You are required to perform an initial assessment (subjective examination and outcome measures), establish SMART goals (short and long term) and design a five week evidence-based therapeutic exercise program. You will then conduct the five week exercise program, monitor program effectiveness (weekly at a minimum), and progress/ regress the program in response to ongoing patient assessment findings. Following the completion of the program, you will evaluate the outcomes. The program will be presented as a group PowerPoint presentation and an individually written abstract.

Presentation - Group Work Component

The aim of the presentation is to interactively and concisely educate your peers on your topic. As a group, you will present your topic in a 12 minute Microsoft PowerPoint presentation slide show with communication marked individually by examiner/s using the communication assessment rubric. The presentation will be followed by three minutes of question time. The presentation must be supported by patient notes and an overview (one page table) of your exercise program to provide a more comprehensive overview of your program. Your group presentation must include the following information:

• Introduction and Background
• SMART Goals (short and long term)
• Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) to support your exercise program
• Intervention
• Progression of the Intervention
• Outcomes and Conclusions

The initial assessment, ongoing assessments and final review must be organised, structured and recorded as if you were documenting a formal patient record. The final exercise program must be documented as a concise overview (one page), in table format, clearly outlining the weekly schedule with specific exercise prescription parameters. The presentation will be marked using the presentation assessment rubric. Presentations are scheduled for Week 8 Tuesday (7th September) from 8am. You are required to submit your presentation (PowerPoint document), supporting documentation (word document containing your patient notes and an overview of your program) on Moodle by Week 8 Tuesday (7th September) at 8am. It is a requirement that you are present for all group presentations - attendance is mandatory and monitored. A timetable for presentations will be published on Moodle by Tuesday, Week 7 at 4pm.

Abstract - Individual Component

Each group member is required to individually construct an abstract for your exercise program. The aim of the abstract is to concisely describe all components of your exercise program. The abstract must be up to a maximum of 250 words in length (excluding title, authors and affiliations); single line spaced with a line left between headings; unjustified; left aligned; Arial font 12 with headings in bold; text only with no use of tables, figures, abbreviations or bullet points (except key practice points). Your individual abstract must include the following:

• Title: 20 words maximum, written in capital case
• Authors and affiliations
• Objective
• Design
• Method
• Results
• Conclusion
• Key Practice Points

The abstract will be marked using the abstract assessment rubric.

You are required to submit your abstract (word document) on Moodle by Week 8 Tuesday (7th September) at 8am.

Group Allocation and Topic Selection

You will work in small groups for this assignment. Group size will be confirmed based on the number of enrolled students at the end of Week 1, however groups will ideally consist of four students, with a minority of groups consisting of three or five students. From Week 2 Tuesday, you can nominate your group and your selected parameter of physical function via an email to the unit coordinator. Your group nomination and topic must be finalised by Week 2 Friday at 12pm. When nominating your group and/ or topic via email, please ensure you include your campus, full name of each group member and topic. Group allocation and topic selection is your responsibility. If you do not comply with this process, you may not meet the requirements to pass this assessment task.

Refer to Moodle for further information and additional resources.

The assessment rubric for this task is based on the Australian Standards for Physiotherapy, the Accreditation Standard set by the Australian Physiotherapy Council and The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice Instrument. These quality frameworks are mapped against the CQUniversity Graduate Attributes and are intended to give a holistic understanding of standards expected for the assessment task. The rubric for this assessment will be based on the following categories and weightings:

Group Presentation Rubric (15% of total unit grade)

• Visual (15%)
• Organisation and Structure (15%)
• Knowledge and Application of Best Practice Physiotherapy Assessment (25%)
• Knowledge and Application of Best Practice Exercise Intervention (45%)

Individual Communication Rubric (5% of total unit grade)

• Verbal Communication and Engagement (100%)

Abstract Rubric (5% of total unit grade)

• Title, Authors and Affiliations (10%)
• Objective (10%)
• Design (10%)
• Method (10%)
• Results (10%)
• Conclusion (10%)
• Key Practice Points (10%)
• Professional Writing (10%)
• Organisation and Formatting (10%)
• Length (10%)

Presentation Time Limit

Marks are allocated to adhering to the time limit for the presentation. Presentations that do not adhere to the limit may be subjected to a grade penalty. For minor breaches, +/- 10% of the time limit, no marks will be deducted. For major breaches, > +/- 10% of the time limit, 10% of the overall grade will be deducted.

Refer to Moodle for the assessment rubrics

Late Arrival to Assessment

You should aim to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the official assessment commencement time. In the extraordinary circumstance that you are late, you will be permitted late entry to your assessment of up to 10 minutes after the official commencement time. The period of lateness will be deducted from your overall assessment time. If you are denied access to the assessment due to lateness (i.e. arriving beyond the permitted late entry period), you should make an application for deferred assessment, which may or may not be approved in line with CQU policy. If the application for deferred assessment is denied, you will receive a grade of zero percent (0%) for the assessment item and will not be eligible for a re-sit but may be eligible for a supplementary assessment in line with CQU policy.

There will be two (2) Hurdle Assessments.

Hurdle 1: Observational Placement Attendance

This unit includes up to four (4) hours of observational learning, offering you your first workplace learning experience of the physiotherapy course. This clinical observation placement is designed to give you the opportunity to observe practicing physiotherapists interacting with patients with a range of conditions. This observational placement will be scheduled outside regular timetabled sessions and may be held in any clinical facility across the spectrum of healthcare. All pre-clinical requirements must be completed prior to the observational clinical placement and attendance at the placement is mandatory. Placements are organised by our clinical education coordinator, and details will be provided to you once confirmed by the facility. Refer to Moodle for further information and additional resources.

You are not required to submit anything for this assessment task.

A satisfactory grade for the observational placement is required in order to be eligible to PASS this unit.

Results will be available once all clinical observational placements are completed and attendance is confirmed by the clinical educator coordinator.

Hurdle 2: Attendance

A minimum attendance rate of 85% for practical and tutorial sessions is required in order to be eligible to PASS this unit. This minimum attendance requirement is recommended by the Australian Physiotherapy Council. The monitoring of attendance will take into consideration legitimate requests for absence such as those outlined in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework) as reasons for requesting time extensions for submitting assessment tasks (e.g. medical or allied health, compassionate, misadventure and exceptional circumstances). Attendance rates for this hurdle will be calculated at the end of week 12.

You are not required to submit anything for this assessment task.

Refer to Moodle for further information and additional resources.

Hurdle 1

You must attend your observational placement to PASS this hurdle. You must PASS this hurdle in order to be eligible to PASS the unit.

Hurdle 2

An attendance rate of 85% at practical and tutorial sessions is required to PASS this hurdle. You must PASS this hurdle in order to be eligible to PASS the unit.

The Practical Assessment will be in the format of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and is intended to assess your theoretical knowledge and practical application of assessment and clinical reasoning skills. The OSCE will be scheduled for either week 1 or week 2 of the university's term 2 examination period. The weighting of the Practical Assessment is 50% of the overall unit grade. Each clinical scenario will be weighted equally. All content from PSIO11003 and pre-requisite and co-requisite units is examinable in this assessment task. The OSCE will include three (3) stations:

• Joint Range of Movement (ROM)
• Muscle Length
• Muscle Strength

At each station, you be examined on one (1) lower limb scenario and one (1) upper limb scenario.

Your OSCE will have a total time limit of 90 minutes. The examination will commence with 30 minutes of preparation time, at which point the two scenarios for each station will be provided to you. You will be then be allocated 10 minutes to complete each station. Following this, you will be given 30 minutes to document one assessment from each station. Your performance on each scenario may be assessed by a different examiner. Once your examination is complete, you will be required to be a patient model for another examination. For each practical skill, you may be requested to:

• Discuss indications/ aims/ overall objectives for the assessment technique
• Discuss precautions, contraindications or considerations for the assessment technique
• Discuss key information relating to the interpretation of assessment findings (e.g. normative data, common findings, implications for diagnosis)
• Demonstrate specific assessment techniques
• Document physiotherapy intervention (e.g. assessment technique and findings)

You must come appropriately attired for the Practical Assessment. When being examined, you must be attired in your full clinical uniform. When you are a 'patient', you should be suitably attired for a physical examination.

A timetable for the Practical Assessment will be published on Moodle at the end of Term 2.

Refer to Moodle for further information and additional resources.

The assessment rubric for this task is based on the Australian Standards for Physiotherapy, the Accreditation Standard set by the Australian Physiotherapy Council and The Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice Instrument. These quality frameworks are mapped against the CQUniversity Graduate Attributes and are intended to give a holistic understanding of standards expected for the assessment task. The rubric for this assessment will be based on the following categories and weightings:

• Professional Behaviour (5%)
• Communication (20%)
• Knowledge and Understanding (15%)
• Practical Application of Technique (55%)
• Risk Management (5%)

Refer to Moodle for the assessment rubric.

Requirements to PASS the Practical Assessment (OSCE)

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

• Achieve 50% or higher in the graded component for each of the three stations (i.e. a minimum of 50% for station one, a minimum of 50% for station two, and a minimum of 50% for station three).

If you do not meet the above criteria for each station, you will be eligible for one opportunity to re-sit the entire OSCE assessment task, provided you have achieved an overall grade equal to, or higher than 44.5% for your original OSCE.

OSCE Re-sit Conditions

1. If you meet the eligibility criteria for a re-sit, you will be given only one re-sit opportunity.
2. The re-sit will be conducted within two weeks of the term 2 University Examination Period.
3. The re-sit will be assessed by up to two examiners and will be of an equivalent format to the original assessment task.
4. The assessment criteria of the re-sit will be identical to the original OSCE.
5. If you pass the re-sit you will receive a grade of exactly 50% for the OSCE (i.e. 25% of the total unit grade), irrespective of your achievement for the graded component of the re-sit. This is to ensure equity to those students who only had one attempt.

If you do not meet the requirements for a re-sit, you will receive your original OSCE grade and may be awarded a supplementary assessment in line with CQUniversity Policy.

Late Arrival to Assessment

You should aim to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the official assessment commencement time. In the extraordinary circumstance that you are late, you will be permitted late entry to your assessment of up to 10 minutes after the official commencement time. The period of lateness will be deducted from your overall assessment time. If you are denied access to the assessment due to lateness (i.e. arriving beyond the permitted late entry period), you should make an application for deferred assessment, which may or may not be approved in line with CQU policy. If the application for deferred assessment is denied, you will receive a grade of zero percent (0%) for the assessment item and will not be eligible for a re-sit but may be eligible for a supplementary assessment in line with CQU policy.