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 Exercise Physiology: Metabolic, Immunologic, and Hematologic
  • Unit Code

    SPS4204
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Favil SINGH

Description

This unit provides students with both the theoretical and practical skills required for clinical assessment and exercise prescription related to metabolic, immunologic, and hematologic conditions. Students are taught the pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and hematologic conditions, applicable diagnostic techniques and medical treatment, patient assessment, exercise prescription, and associated exercise responses.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures, tutorials, laboratories.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPS3301

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the pathophysiology of metabolic, immunological, and haematological diseases as it relates to therapeutic exercise.
  2. Outline the risk factors, complications and co-morbidities that must be accounted for when applying exercise assessments to individuals with these diseases.
  3. Interpret the effects of commonly prescribed medications on acute and chronic exercise responses that must be accounted for when applying exercise interventions to individuals with these diseases.
  4. Analyse the diagnostic information and treatment procedures used in these diseases.
  5. Justify clinical assessment and then apply clinical knowledge to conduct exercise/fitness/functional tests on individuals with these diseases.
  6. Design and apply exercise as a therapeutic modality for individuals with these diseases based on assessment data.

Unit Content

  1. Pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic diseases.
  2. Provide evidence base and clinical reasoning for clinical assessment for patients with metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic conditions.
  3. Theoretical basis of clinical exercise assessment protocols.
  4. Pharmacological effects on exercise capacity.
  5. Theoretical basis of clinical exercise testing protocols.
  6. Analysis and interpretation of medical diagnostic data.
  7. Evaluation of fitness and functional capacity through exercise.
  8. Clinical exercise test, results and reference values.
  9. Prescription of exercise as a therapeutic modality for these clinical populations.
  10. Pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic conditions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and laboratory work. Supported by online resources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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 Board of Examiners.

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 plan 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester Test30%
Tutorial Presentation ^Case study presentation20%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory assessment10%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%

^ 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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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 Exercise Physiology: Metabolic, Immunologic, and Hematologic
  • Unit Code

    SPS4204
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Favil SINGH

Description

This unit provides students with both the theoretical and practical skills required for clinical assessment and exercise prescription related to metabolic, immunologic, and hematologic conditions. Students are taught the pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and hematologic conditions, applicable diagnostic techniques and medical treatment, patient assessment, exercise prescription, and associated exercise responses.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures, tutorials, laboratories.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SPS3301

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the pathophysiology of metabolic, immunological, and haematological diseases as it relates to therapeutic exercise.
  2. Outline the risk factors, complications and co-morbidities that must be accounted for when applying exercise assessments to individuals with these diseases.
  3. Interpret the effects of commonly prescribed medications on acute and chronic exercise responses that must be accounted for when applying exercise interventions to individuals with these diseases.
  4. Analyse the diagnostic information and treatment procedures used in these diseases.
  5. Justify clinical assessment and then apply clinical knowledge to conduct exercise/fitness/functional tests on individuals with these diseases.
  6. Design and apply exercise as a therapeutic modality for individuals with these diseases based on assessment data.

Unit Content

  1. Pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic diseases.
  2. Provide evidence base and clinical reasoning for clinical assessment for patients with metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic conditions.
  3. Theoretical basis of clinical exercise assessment protocols.
  4. Pharmacological effects on exercise capacity.
  5. Theoretical basis of clinical exercise testing protocols.
  6. Analysis and interpretation of medical diagnostic data.
  7. Evaluation of fitness and functional capacity through exercise.
  8. Clinical exercise test, results and reference values.
  9. Prescription of exercise as a therapeutic modality for these clinical populations.
  10. Pathophysiology of metabolic, immunologic, and haematologic conditions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and laboratory work. Supported by online resources.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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 Board of Examiners.

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 plan 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
TypeDescriptionValue
TestMid-semester Test30%
Tutorial Presentation ^Case study presentation20%
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory assessment10%
Examination ^End of Semester Examination40%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Swain, D. P., & of Sports Medicine., A. C. (2014). ACSM's resource manual for guidelines for exercise testing and prescription (7th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
  • (2013). Clinical exercise physiology (3rd ed.). Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.

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.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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