Clinical Practice 2

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate time management skills including the ability to prioritise competing demands
• Take responsibility for their clinical learning
• Demonstrate reflective practice and problem solving skills applied to clinical situations

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Formulate suitable management strategies/care plans in conjunction with the patient, to include prescription and non-prescription medicines, orthoses prescription and selection, other physical and mechanical therapies
• Exercise a duty of care to patients/clients/carers in the context of independent single handed practice within the NHS, private practice and the industrial setting
• Demonstrate effective access and acknowledgement of information from written and electronic sources
• Practice safe and appropriate use of local analgesia
• Requisition, where appropriate, specialist clinical or laboratory tests such as x-ray, microscopy and culture in order to accurately diagnose lower limb health status
• Perform operative and psychomotor skills using a high degree of manual dexterity (e.g. scalpel reduction of skin and nail lesions)
• Develop an effective interdisciplinary approach to patient care
• Demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, health care professionals and other team members

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Evaluate academic, clinical and professional performance
• Demonstrate clinical reasoning skills in neurological, vascular, musculoskeletal and dermatological assessment and diagnosis applicable to patients seen on placement where appropriate

• Clinical reasoning, reflection and problem solving as methods used in assessment and diagnostic practices.
• Appropriate techniques for assessing neurological, vascular, musculoskeletal and dermatological systems.
• Theory and practice of local analgesia use.
• Management techniques for common foot pathologies e.g. orthoses prescription, prescription and non-prescription medicines, physical therapies.
• Interdisciplinary approaches to patient care and care planning.
• Reflection and critical incident analysis as a method for evaluating practice.

Teaching and learning methods

Clinical practice is supported by clinical tutorials, clinical action sets and case conferences before and after placements. Further support is provided through discussion of placement experiences and specific case scenarios via the Blackboard discussion forum. Learning is also driven through the production of a clinical development record (CDR) that aims to strategically link theory with practice. Students will have the opportunity of presenting the CDR informally for discussion at the end of the placement block with their peer group.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

British Medical Association and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Briitish National Formulary. Oxon: The Pharmaceutical Press.

Burrow G, Rome R, Padhiar N (2020). Neale's Disorders of the Foot and Ankle. Elsevier.

Epstein et al (2008). Clinical Examination. Mosby.

Assessment strategy

To pass this module you must achieve a weighted mean average of 40% or more AND also you must pass all the components at 40% or more.

All of the programmes learning outcomes are reflected in the clinical modules. This is to be expected in a vocational programme designed to produce a practitioner that is able to apply their theoretical learning to practice, and in a programme that has many requirements and benchmarks assigned to the clinical practice of podiatry. The continued development of the student as a clinician and podiatrist is monitored and assessed through the clinical development record which is seen to be an appropriate reflection of the array of reasoning and problem solving skills, attitudes and breadth of clinical experiences throughout the programme. Competency assessment both summatively and formatively are used to ensure that the student achieves an appropriate level of technical, psychomotor, assessment, diagnostic and management skills on completion of the programme.

This module is based within a clinical environment and can only be attempted in-person. Only two total attempts are allowed, irrespective of the regulatory conditions under which it is attempted. Any student who must re-attempt this module in a subsequent academic year must do so in attendance, as there is no external option.

If this is the only module taken in a specific academic year then the student will be suspended when not directly on placement. The attempt will be subject to pro-rata fees liability, which will be calculated based upon the credit total of the module. Any student choosing to re-attempt the module accepts the conditions described above and the fees liabilities defined, this includes any student who attempts this module as part of the conditional progression policy.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal