School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Practicum 1
  • Unit Code

    SPE3107
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie CRAWFORD

Description

In this unit, students will gain valuable clinical experience in a community or hospital facility. Students will attend a health or educational facility throughout the semester to observe and carry out clinical work involving assessment, intervention planning and implementation with clients, their families, and relevant professionals under supervision. Teamwork will be an integral part of the practicum. Clinical placements may have a focus on either adult or paediatric communication and/or swallowing disorders. Students will work with clients from a range of cultural backgrounds. Students will evaluate their own skills against the units of competency and develop reflective practice.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Off-campus supervised clinical practicum; On-campus practicum preparation, simulation and clinical tutorials, including some preparation in weeks outside of the normal semester.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE2103, SPE2104, SPE2106 and SPE3100 or SPE2205

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform in the range of competency between Novice and Intermediate levels on the COMPASS National Clinical Evaluation Tool.
  2. Apply clinical reasoning to interpret communication disorders in unseen patients.
  3. Present evidence to demonstrate clinical performance.
  4. Build personal and professional career development capabilities through self-reflection, planning and goal setting activities.

Unit Content

  1. Life-long learning and learning contracts.
  2. Assessment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
  3. Treatment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
  4. Clinical reasoning.
  5. Goal setting.
  6. Reflective practice.
  7. Peer review of clinical skills.
  8. Professional writing of assessment plans, treatment plans and reports.
  9. Development and sharing of clinical resources.
  10. Cultural and linguistic diversity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 139 x 9 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 239 x 9 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students must complete a supervised clinical practicum that is 10-12 days long, in an appointed work environment within a public, private or non-profit organisation. Students participate in group discussion, case studies and learning activities to consolidate learning. The placement will be supplemented with regular clinical tutorials to assist in student preparation for the placement and to provide a venue for discussion of clinical reasoning skills and professional practice, including verbal and written communication with clients and other professionals. Students complete simulation experiences including with other disciplines to develop interprofessional skills.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Supervised Clinical Practicum
Examination ^Clinical Video Case
Portfolio ^ePortfolio of Clinical Practicum Evidence

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Clinical Practicum 1
  • Unit Code

    SPE3107
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    6
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Natalie CRAWFORD

Description

In this unit, students will gain valuable clinical experience in a community or hospital facility. Students will attend a health or educational facility throughout the semester to observe and carry out clinical work involving assessment, intervention planning and implementation with clients, their families, and relevant professionals under supervision. Teamwork will be an integral part of the practicum. Clinical placements may have a focus on either adult or paediatric communication and/or swallowing disorders. Students will work with clients from a range of cultural backgrounds. Students will evaluate their own skills against the units of competency and develop reflective practice.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Off-campus supervised clinical practicum; On-campus practicum preparation, simulation and clinical tutorials, including some preparation in weeks outside of the normal semester.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed SPE2103, SPE2104, SPE2106 and SPE3100 or SPE2205

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in Y02

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Perform in the range of competency between Novice and Intermediate levels on the COMPASS National Clinical Evaluation Tool.
  2. Apply clinical reasoning to interpret communication disorders in unseen patients.
  3. Present evidence to demonstrate clinical performance.
  4. Build personal and professional career development capabilities through self-reflection, planning and goal setting activities.

Unit Content

  1. Life-long learning and learning contracts.
  2. Assessment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
  3. Treatment of communication and/or swallowing disorders.
  4. Clinical reasoning.
  5. Goal setting.
  6. Reflective practice.
  7. Peer review of clinical skills.
  8. Professional writing of assessment plans, treatment plans and reports.
  9. Development and sharing of clinical resources.
  10. Cultural and linguistic diversity.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 139 x 9 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 239 x 9 hour practical classNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Internship, Clinical or Professional placement (off-campus)

Work done in an actual workplace in which the student applies discipline-specific knowledge and skills, supervised by an industry professional separate from an ECU campus or location.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students must complete a supervised clinical practicum that is 10-12 days long, in an appointed work environment within a public, private or non-profit organisation. Students participate in group discussion, case studies and learning activities to consolidate learning. The placement will be supplemented with regular clinical tutorials to assist in student preparation for the placement and to provide a venue for discussion of clinical reasoning skills and professional practice, including verbal and written communication with clients and other professionals. Students complete simulation experiences including with other disciplines to develop interprofessional skills.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Due to the professional competency skill development associated with this Unit, student attendance/participation within listed in-class activities and/or online activities including discussion boards is compulsory. Students failing to meet participation standards as outlined in the unit information may be awarded an I Grade (Fail - incomplete). Students who are unable to meet this requirement for medical or other reasons must seek the approval of the unit coordinator.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Supervised Clinical Practicum
Examination ^Clinical Video Case
Portfolio ^ePortfolio of Clinical Practicum Evidence

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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