FYBPRA2 Clinical Placement - II Course description

This course is a practical training course that contains the second of two practical training periods in the third year of the programme. The practical training is carried out at locations affiliated to OsloMet - Metropolitan University (OsloMet) through signed cooperation agreements. These are primarily institutions in the municipal or specialist health service. The student will develop the action competence needed to meet the requirements made of physiotherapists. On the basis of ethical reflection and critical thinking, the student should provide professionally sound, person-centred and knowledge-based physiotherapy rooted in research, evidence-based knowledge and user knowledge, and participate in the daily activities at the practical training establishment. The practical study is carried out on all weekdays for ten (10) consecutive weeks, with a workload of 40 hours per week.

Passed first and second year of the programme or equivalent.

Passed FYBPRA1 Clinical Placement - I.

After completing the course, the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student can

• describe the practical training establishment’s professional basis and how the establishment describes the purpose of its activities

Skills

The student can

• obtain information through dialogue with the patient and in other assessment situations, and respond to the complexity of the patient’s life situation
• justify their choice of assessment methods and standardised tests on the basis of the patient’s clinical condition and level of functioning and the tests’ psychometric properties
• give an oral presentation of physiotherapy’s contribution to the interprofessional follow-up of a patient, and present the clinical reasoning forming the basis for decisions
• perform person-centred physiotherapy informed by research, evidence-based knowledge and the patient’s perspective, and demonstrate a broad range of measures that can be adapted in treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation, prevention and palliation
• continuously evaluate the patient’s response to treatment and other measures throughout the course of treatment, and adjust the measures as required
• guide patients undergoing change processes and strengthen their coping resources, and evaluate their development in relation to coping strategies
• adapt orthopedic and technical aids, and propose and contribute  in the adaptation of surroundings to promote movement, functioning and participation
• explore how team members with different professional backgrounds can contribute to person-centred cooperation, and take the initiative to  interprofessional cooperation, and cooperate with health workers involved earlier/later in the course of treatment
• use manual, bodily and educational tools in a clear, precise, confident, sensitive and respectful manner in assessment and treatment
• adapt their own communication in their dealings with patients and next of kin
• write and update patient records in accordance with applicable guidelines and the Regulations related to patient records in a manner that protects privacy, and so that the healthcare provided can be controlled later
• present and discuss a professional issue at professional meetings and/or student meetings that is relevant to the practical training establishment
• plan their own workday/workweek and prioritise tasks in a manner that safeguards their own health, collaboration with colleagues, scheduled appointments and patient safety.

General competence

The student can

• show respect, care and empathy in their dealings with patients/users/next of kin
• use knowledge of inclusion and equality in their own contributions to provide equitable and non-discriminatory services to all groups in society regardless of sex, ethnicity, language, religion or life stance, level of functioning, social background, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and age
• identify and handle ethical issues that arise in encounters with patients and reflect on their own attitudes and behaviour
• carry out tasks in line with requirements for professional responsibility, applicable legislation, and the practical training establishment’s regulations and personnel handbook (including clothing, hygiene and infection control) and can evaluate their own activities
• refer patients to partners and consult the supervisor as needed
• reflect on their own professional practice and competence level and independently identify learning strategies and learning objectives

The students will acquire knowledge of the design and evaluation of user interfaces. They will learn to develop ideas from sketches to concrete designs with the help of prototyping techniques, and use the prototypes to get feedback from users. The students will also learn to look at theories about human-machine-interaction by employing simple quantitative methods.;

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• knows what user-centred development entails
• has knowledge of individual differences between people
• has knowledge of what characterises user-friendliness;
• is familiar with design principles
• can explain the specific terminology used in the field;
• has knowledge of research on user interfaces, including theories, empirical data and hypothesis testing

Skills

The student is capable of

• performing needs analyses
• communicating design ideas with the help of sketches;
• developing low-resolution prototypes, including organising information visually and using knowledge about cognition, such as people’s memory capacity and attention, to simplify user interfaces
• performing user tests;
• measuring the user interfaces by designing simple experiments and applying statistical tools

General competence

The student

• is capable of developing user-friendly user interfaces;
• is familiar with techniques used to evaluate interactive systems
• is capable of documenting and explaining design choices to clients and users
• is capable of interpreting simple research literature dealing with human-machine interaction

Lectures and practical work with prototyping, evaluations and product development.;The students work individually and in groups (2-4 students).

The following coursework is compulsory and must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• A group presentation of a given topic.

Exam form: Portfolio assessment subject to the following requirements:

• One individual assignment (1,000-1,600 words).
• Two group assignments (2-4 students). One of 1,600-3,000 words, and one of 1,000-2,000 words.

One overall grade is awarded for the portfolio.;All parts of the portfolio must be awarded a grade E or better for a student to successfully pass the course.

The exam result can be appealed.

In the event of resit and rescheduled exams, another exam form may also be used or a new assignment given with a new deadline. If oral exams are used, the result cannot be appealed.

All.