ORIPRA2 Placement: Orthosis and Prosthesis of the Foot Course description

This course consists of a six-week period (a total of 180 hrs) of supervised practical training in an orthopaedic technology enterprise. The practical training concentrates on users in need of foot orthoses and/or orthopaedic footwear and/or partial foot prostheses, and the focus is on clinical work, communication with users and documenting the work in writing.

The student must have passed the first year of the programme or equivalent, with the exception of the course ORI1050.

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 user participation and is familiar with the principles for applying a client-centred approach in the clinic
• can explain organisational and structural factors with a bearing on professional practice at the practical training enterprise
• can explain the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration’s (NAV) regulations for foot orthoses

Skills

The student

• can apply knowledge of prosthetics and orthotics in relation to relevant users, issues and tasks relating to footwear, foot orthoses and partial foot prostheses
• can use clinical reasoning to integrate theory and practice
• can use discipline-specific methods, tools and equipment that are relevant to clinical practice in footwear, foot orthoses and partial foot prostheses
• can apply the ICF framework and relevant outcome measures to measure the effect of disabilities caused by foot problems
• can define goals based on users’ wishes regarding and right to activity, work inclusion and social participation
• can provide guidance to users on the use and maintenance of footwear/foot orthoses
• can search for, discuss and apply specialist literature and research articles

General competence

The student

• can reflect on communication and contribute to interprofessional cooperation
• can, with some supervision, keep records and relevant documents used in the practical training enterprise
• can demonstrate and reflect on professionalism in tasks performed at the practical training enterprise
• can acknowledge and reflect on users’ right to co-determination and autonomy
• can take responsibility and initiative, demonstrate cooperation skills, independence and an ability to adapt, and treat users, partners and others with empathy and respect
• can discuss different professional approaches in interdisciplinary teams in order to develop good practices
• can discuss and critically reflect on ethical dilemmas and work in accordance with professional ethical guidelines

The work and teaching methods include self-study, interprofessional cooperative learning and external practical training under supervision.

Throughout the study programme, the students will increase their skills in social care and child welfare work with ethnic minorities in the Norwegian welfare state. This course will help to strengthen the students’ skills in working with adults, children and families with ethnic minority backgrounds. The students will develop the ability to reflect on the relationship between social workers and minority families. They will also acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes that encourage greater tolerance, understanding and knowledge when it comes to the situation of ethnic minorities in the majority society, as well as how one’s own culture can affect the cooperation. Emphasis is placed on further developing the students’ knowledge and experience from earlier courses in the programme.

The student must have passed all exams in the first and second year of the programme. 

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

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• majority and minority relations from a historical, social and political perspective

• the production of knowledge ideology, power and marginalisation processes
• language and communication
• anti-racist social work
• identity, culture and cooperation
• participation and inclusion in the majority society

• integration strategies
• domestic violence
• work with unaccompanied minor refugees
• the living conditions of minority ethnic groups

Skills

The student can

• analyse structural, cultural and individual power relations
• demonstrate an ethical and sensitive approach in social work
• reflect on how one’s culture can affect the way they interpret things and cooperate
• cooperate and communicate with the help of an interpreter

General competence

The student

• has developed an understanding of how cultural diversity and complex power relations are related to people’s different needs, values and lifestyles
• can analyse and assess what is special and what is common for social work with ethnic minorities compared to social work with ethnic majority persons
• has acquired knowledge that encourages reflection on the power positions of social workers and child welfare officers as both representatives of the public authorities and representatives of a majority culture

• has acquired knowledge of and skills in obtaining and using sources (basic reference and quotation techniques)

Teaching methods used in the course are lectures, plenary discussions, group work and own reflection. Students will also work on specific theoretical and methodological issues related to their own experiences and will be given an opportunity to discuss them.

The following must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

1. One written coursework requirement in the form of a memo of up to one page long. In the memo, the student chooses a topic and research question for their in-depth assignment in the field of child welfare work, or social work and ethnic minorities, and gives grounds for their choice. The coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline. If the coursework requirement is not approved, the student will be given the opportunity to submit an improved version once by a given deadline.

Compulsory coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam.

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