Evidence Informed Clinical Reasoning in Physiotherapy

Course aim

To develop knowledge and skills to access, evaluate and critically apply allied health research evidence within a biopsychosocial clinical reasoning framework.

Course content

Students will learn allied health research evidence including, frameworks for asking an answerable clinical question, acquiring the evidence, exploring foundations of research and data, exploring different types of research (quantitative and qualitative), exploring secondary research evidence, evidence dimensions (including critical appraisal), interpreting, implementing and communicating the evidence. Students will learn clinical reasoning including critical thinking, introduction to the biopsychosocial model of health, focus of reasoning, the clinical reasoning process (cues, inferences) categories of clinical judgments, reflection, metacognition and reasoning errors.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Presentation

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.