These quizzes are designed to assess your clinical reasoning processes and evidence based knowledge. Questions are mostly in the format of short answer essay questions, but may include other formats such as multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blanks, short answer questions and questions relating to multimedia material (images/videos).

• Quiz 1 will take place during Week 5 and will be scheduled outside of class time. This quiz will account for 20% of the total grade for this unit. This assessment will consist of mostly short essay questions based on clinical case studies and assesses content from Weeks 1-4, including required readings.

• Quiz 2 will take place during Week 11 and will be scheduled outside of class time. This quiz will account for 20% of the total grade for this unit. This assessment will consist of mostly short essay questions based on clinical case studies and assesses content from Weeks 5-9 but may include any exercise prescription theory taught from Weeks 1- 4, and can include any required readings.

Weighting: Each quiz will be worth 20%, contributing to 40% of the total unit grade.

Conditions: Both quizzes will consist of up to 20 questions, and will have a time limit of one hour. All summative quizzes will be closed-book assessments, therefore access to books, notes, external websites (other than the quiz) and use of other electronic devices is strictly prohibited during the quiz.

You will have one attempt at each quiz. Quizzes are time-limited and cannot be completed or submitted earlier than 3/4 of the total designated time. Students will not be allowed to exit the room until after all students have finished.

Questions may be drawn from a pool of questions, and may vary between students.

Students must participate in and complete both quizzes to be eligible to pass the course overall.

Students are required to complete both quizzes to be eligible to pass the unit. No minimum grade is required to be achieved to be eligible to pass the unit.

Students will be randomly assigned to small groups to develop an educational patient resource that could be used in clinical Physiotherapy practice. This patient resource must be a written resource and can be submitted in the form of either a pamphlet, poster or booklet. Students will choose a topic from a list provided at the start of term. Each group must decide on their chosen topic and have this checked by the Unit Coordinator by the end of Week 2.

The developed resource must include patient targeted education, techniques for self management of their clinical condition and exercise rehabilitation. Intervention and educational choices must be informed by relevant evidence based literature. This developed resource is due on 4pm Friday 1st of June, Week 12.

Each group will then present their developed resource to their peers. Presentations will be 10 minutes, including time for questions. Groups can choose to utilize power point, white boards or posters to present this information. During this presentation students must discuss and reference the evidence based literature that has informed their intervention choices. Presentations will take place during the examination period and may be scheduled outside of usual teaching hours. The confirmed assessment date and a presentation timetable will be released prior to Week 12. Each group's presentation will be peer assessed by another group, which will contribute to 5% of the total grade for this assessment task.

Students will also be required to self assess both their individual participation and their peers’ participation in this assessment item by completing a self and peer assessment survey (SPA).

Referencing should follow the APA format.

The Group work will be marked per group, 5% will be marked by your peers. The SPA will adjust individual group work marks in accordance to the results of measured work load contribution. Detailed marking criteria will be available on the unit Moodle site, and be based on the following:

• Organisation of resource and communication skills (20%)
• Knowledge of the condition and planning patient care supported by the literature (40%)
• Knowledge of best practice intervention for the selected condition and effectively educates target audience (40%)
  

The assessment rubric for this assessment 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.

Hurdle 1

At least 85% attendance of tutorial/practical sessions is required for a PASS grade. If there is a genuine reason for being absent, students need to inform the Unit Coordinator as soon as possible.

A minimum attendance requirement of 85% is recommended from the Australian Physiotherapy Council for all tutorials and practical sessions. The monitoring of attendance will take into consideration legitimate reasons for absence, such as those outline in the Assessment of Coursework Procedures (1.21, 1.23 and 1.24) and these will not be counted as absence for the purpose of this attendance requirement.

Hurdle 2

You are required to watch a short video of an Orthopaedic Inpatient session completed by a student physiotherapist. You are then required to complete a set of SOTAP notes for this interaction appropriate for an inpatient chart, including the subjective, objective findings and treatment (please note that the patient mobilises 40m with the student which is not shown on the video). You will create your own analysis of the patient/interaction, and develop your own plan appropriate for a Day 2 post-surgical intervention. Please include at least two SMART goals for the patient as part of your discharge planning.

Your notes should be 1-2 pages only.

Remember all to include all of the relevant medico-legal requirements for writing notes.

Sign the notes as yourself (pretending that you were the practitioner).

You are to submit your documentation via moodle. Due date is 4pm Thursday 19th April.

The Hurdle Requirement is a Pass/Fail formative assessment task.

Policies and Procedures:

1. The CQUniversity Assessment of Coursework Procedures policy (for centrally timetabled examinations) applies to all assessment items in this unit. The monitoring of attendance will take into consideration legitimate reasons for absence, as outlined in the aforementioned CQUniversity Assessment of Coursework Procedures policy, and these will not be counted as an absence for the purpose of this attendance requirement.

2. Supplementary Assessments: As per the CQU Assessment of Coursework Procedures policy, students will be notified regarding final unit grades, including the provision of Supplementary Assessments, prior to the official Certification of Grades date for Term 1. All Supplementary Assessments will be granted in accordance with the Grades and Results Procedures policy, Supplementary Assessments will be required to be completed within the two weeks following Certification of Grades.

The Practical Assessment (OSCE) will consist of two 20 minute examinations based on two written clinical case scenarios (simulated patients). You will perform and discuss aspects of relevant assessment, treatment, clinical reasoning and overall management of the condition presented.

You will be provided with the clinical case scenarios prior to the commencement of the OSCE and will have up to 30 minutes to read the instructions and plan their physical examination and treatment.

The OSCE will last for approximately 40 minutes, and will be video recorded for moderation purposes. Students should be prepared to model for other examinees after completing their own assessment and students from other year groups may also act as models during the assessment as required. This requires attendance in the examination for a minimum of one hour.

Each OSCE case will be marked by an examiner and students will be given an average grade of the two cases. Detailed marking criteria will be available on the unit Moodle site, and be based on the following:

• Professional Behaviour (10%)
• Communication (20%)
• Risk Management/Safety (Pass/Fail)
• Assessment and Interpretation (35%)
• Management and Intervention (35%)

The assessment rubric for this assessment 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.

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

1) achieve a PASS result for the PASS/FAIL component of Risk Management/Safety for each of the two clinical scenarios (i.e. PASS for clinical scenario one and PASS for clinical scenario two).

AND

2) achieve 50% or higher in the graded component for each of the two clinical scenarios (i.e. a minimum of 50% for clinical scenario one and a minimum of 50% for clinical scenario two).

If you do not meet the above criteria for each clinical scenario, you will be eligible for one opportunity to re-sit the entire OSCE assessment task, provided you have:

1) achieved an overall grade equal to, or higher than 44.5% for your OSCE.

AND

2) achieved 49.5% or higher for each of the assessment items that have been completed and graded at the time of the OSCE.

OSCE re-sit conditions

If you meet the eligibility criteria for a re-sit, you will be given only one re-sit opportunity to pass the OSCE.
The re-sit will be assessed by up to two examiners and will be of an equivalent format to the original assessment task.
Where possible, the re-sit will be conducted within two weeks of the original assessment date.
The assessment criteria of the re-sit will be identical to the original OSCE.
If you pass the re-sit you will receive a grade of exactly 50% for the OSCE (i.e. 25% of the Unit grade), irrespective of your achievement for the graded component. This is to ensure equity to those students who only had one attempt.
If you do not meet the requirements to be offered a re-sit, or to PASS the re-sit, you will receive a grade equal to your original OSCE grade and may be offered a supplementary assessment in line with CQUniversity Policy.