FYB2300 Health and Participation Throughout the Life Span - II Course description

Like FYB2100, this course focuses on public health and health in a life course perspective. Promoting health and participation for individuals with various levels of functioning and health is an important part of professional physiotherapy practice. Physiotherapists must be able to obtain information about the physical, psychosocial and organisational factors that characterise the arenas where people live their lives. The key arenas are the home, workplace, schools and kindergartens, and these can be relevant arenas for rehabilitation, habilitation and health-promoting work. Physiotherapists must also take care of health challenges of people who are excluded from various arenas in life as the labour market or participating in the society, for example addicts, homeless people or people with disablements. 

The students will also participate in the interdisciplinary teaching initiative INTER1200. See https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact for a more detailed description of INTERACT.

INTER1200: ‘Communication with Children, Young People and their Families’ (1.5 credits) makes up the second module of the university's teaching project INTERACT. INTER1200 increases students' knowledge about communication and interaction with children and young people. As in INTER1100, the students receive training in cooperating with students from other programmes of professional study on topics relating to the everyday lives of children and young people.

Passed first year of the programme or equivalent.

After completing the course and INTER1200, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence (INTER1200 addresses the learning outcomes marked with two asterisks (**)): 

Knowledge

The student

• have knowledge about the importance of appreciative communication with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians**
• can explain children and adolescents’ right to participation in decisions that concern them**
• can explain the importance of explorative approaches in cooperation with children and adolescents**
• can describe the standardised tools used to assess children’s activity, participation and quality of life
• can describe habilitation as a area of knowledge and reflect on the possibilities and challenges relating to interprofessional and intersectoral processes, both in the minicipal- and in the spesialist health service

Skills

The student can

• carry out a conversation about everyday life with children and adolescents**
• have appreciative communication with parents/guardians**
• obtain information about public health at the municipal level, and discuss factors that affect public health and that can explain social inequality in relation to health
• assess factors in a working or school environment that promote and impede the health of employees/pupils, and that affect the possibility of participation
• propose measures that promote public health and social inclusion among children in a diverse society, and discuss the measures in light of behavioural theory and ethics
• plan and justify measures that promote health and work inclusion in a diverse society
• reflect on how a person’s life experience and cultural background can be expressed through body expressions and movement
• supervise physiotherapy students in the role of supervisor/instructor
• suggest and justify measures in interprofessional habilitation and reflect on the impact it may have on participation in arenas which are important to the indivudual

General competence

The student

• can present the implementation of and experience gained from a practical training project
• can reflect on their own role in explorative conversation with children, adolescents and their parent/guardians**
• understands the importance of interprofessional cooperation with children, adolescents and their parents/guardians**

The work and teaching methods include self-study, assignments, seminars, skills training, lectures and practical training.

Students will have a project based practical training period of a total of 30 hours. The project based practical training is carried out on an arena where physiotherapists can contribute with competence and measures within health promotion and illness prevention. Examples are community centres, health clinics, nurseries, schools, and arenas where the occupational health service can be represented. The intention of this project based practical training is that the student will gain a deeper understanding of which factors influence health and function, as well as plan and propose health promoting/illness preventing measures on a group - and society level. The project based practical training period will result in a project assignment which is part of the final exam for this course.

"INTER1200 The Same Child - Different Arenas": Digital interaction is central to teaching. The students work in interprofessional groups over two seminar days. The student groups will talk, reflect, discuss selected cases and give each other feedback. See https://www.oslomet.no/forskning/forskningsprosjekter/interact for a more detailed description of INTERACT.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to receive a final assessment in part 1:

• a minimum attendance of 80 % in teaching specified as ‘compulsory attendance’ in the schedule
• individual log from project-based practice, 500 words (+/- 10%)

Coursework requirements for INTER1200:

• Individual log. Scope: 500 words (+/- 10 %). In order to write the log, the student must first attend a seminar over two days.  

Project-based exam in groups of 2-3 studentsbasedon the project based practical training  within upbringing,  working life and public health Scope: 1,400 words (+/- 10%). The exam period takes place in parallel with teaching activities during most of the semester.

Resit assessment/exam: If a student fails the exam, they will have the opportunity to  submit a reworked version once.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

 A-F.

All exam papers are assessed by two examiners. At least 20% of the exams will be assessed by an external examiner. The external examiner’s assessment should benefit all students

10 credits overlap with FYSIO2200 and MENDI2200