Course Title: Clinical Presentations across the Lifespan

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Clinical Presentations across the Lifespan

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

MEDS2148

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

150H Health Sciences

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2015,
Sem 1 2016

MEDS2148

Bundoora Campus

Undergraduate

173H School of Health and Biomed

Face-to-Face

 Sem 1 2017,
Sem 1 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2021,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 1 2023,
Sem 1 2024

Course Coordinator: A/Prof Amanda Kimpton

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 6547

Course Coordinator Email: amanda.kimpton@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 202.04.068


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses

Successful completion of:

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.

For information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.


Course Description

This course supports and extends your knowledge through a review of the normal aging process, lifelong milestones and age associated common clinical presentations. It will provide broad and coherent knowledge readying students for professional work in a clinical setting. The course will cover neonates, pre-schoolers, children, adolescents, adults and the older population. Consideration will also be given to the clinical requirements of the obstetric patient.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP280 (Chiropractic)

  • PLO 1: provide specialised health care within a patient centred, evidence based framework
  • PLO 2: gather clinical information to make accurate differential diagnosis, assessment and management plans and carry out effective treatment
  • PLO 3: practice as a competent health care professional in a safe ethical and legally responsible manner.
  • PLO 4: demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity in the provision of specialised health care
  • PLO 6: work independently and in teams specifically to lead and contribute to inter professional care partnerships.

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes for BP279 (Osteopathy)

  • PLO 1: Provide patient-centred care as a competent, safe primary healthcare professional
  • PLO 2: Provide osteopathic, musculo-skeletal healthcare within a patient-centred, evidence-based framework
  • PLO 3: Gather and interpret health information, and employ clinical reasoning to develop differential diagnoses, to inform assessment and management
  • PLO 4: Effectively communicate with a wide audience (i.e. patients, carers, healthcare professionals and agencies), with respect and sensitivity to socio-cultural diversity, using a variety of media
  • PLO 6: Work autonomously and collaboratively, to lead and/or contribute to inter-professional healthcare partnerships


On successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate evidence-based clinical assessment of the patient
  2. Identify the growth and development process of the human body across the lifespan
  3. Discuss physiological and psychosocial milestones to be met by the human person across the lifespan
  4. Review the range of age related clinical conditions that commonly present in health care practice and appropriate age-related responses to treatment.
  5. Contextualise plan/s of care to consider appropriate age-related responses, concurrent therapeutic and adjunctive therapies and modification of treatment regimes.


Overview of Learning Activities

Lectures and tutorials are the principal mode of information delivery and will present you with key concepts and theories relevant to the understanding of the core concepts in this course.

Lecture material and related resources are available on Canvas. Throughout the course you will work both individually and in groups to solve problems involving core aspects covered in the course.

Self-directed learning is encouraged and will enable you to better develop independent learning and knowledge, readying you for clinical practice.

The assessments aim to support the material covered in the lectures and tutorials and provide opportunity to delve deeper into topics covered during the semester.

The written assessment aims to develop and improve your professional writing skills, readying you for clinical practice.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1: Portfolio Report Part 1 
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 

Assessment Task 2: Portfolio Report Part 2
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 

Assessment Task 3: Portfolio Report Part 3
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 

Assessment Task 4: Cased-Based Assessment  
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.