PTY-30076 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Practice Placement 6 builds on content introduced in Year 1 of the MSc Prosthetics and Orthotics programme and the students previous placements. The placement module enables the student, through P&O practice experience, to further develop and apply and enhance comprehension and skills, with an increasing focus on clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice, in both assessment and service user management approaches.
The module aims to prepare the student to work in diverse healthcare settings whilst also develop transferable skills (i.e. multidisciplinary team working, leadership and advance communication) that can be applied in a variety of healthcare settings and specialties.

This module aims to:
Refine and further enhance students P&O comprehension and skills to effectively and efficiently critically reason and analyse their inclusions for and demonstrate an effective assessment and critically evaluate options for, fit and modify as necessary an appropriate evidence-based individualised service user prosthesis or orthotic device.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Effectively contribute to service user integrated care by demonstrating effective and concise communication skills with service users, carers and members of the inter-professional team: 1,2
Perform, justify and modify (when necessary) a P&O assessment, and subsequently identify a (prioritized) problem list to meet individual service users¿ needs (with supervision appropriate to the student¿s stage of learning): 1,2
Develop clinical reasoning skills to differentiate between diagnoses, evaluate the P&O evidence base and critically analyse the effectiveness of different P&O interventions: 1,2
Handle and record service user information in accordance with professional and regulatory body guidance/requirements, placement base policies, legal and ethical frameworks: 1,2
Proactively demonstrate management skills by directing and managing own learning and others workload; planning, organising and prioritising work/ placement activities and more complex tasks: 1,2
Integrate and apply research evidence into P&O assessment and service user management plans: 1,2
Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and application of the HCPC Guidance on Conduct and Ethics for Students and BAPO Standards of Best Practice.: 1,2

Study hours

Tutor-led hours which includes:
~ 2 hours preparation lectures including, workshops, seminars, tutorials
~ 2 hours placement debrief lectures
Guided Independent Study:
~4 hours guided evidence-based literature
187 hours of placement learning
Students will be encouraged to undertake self-directed study throughout the placement.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment