SPTH4720 Clinical Skills and Practice (Transition to Practice)

2020

4.5

1 x 4-hour workshop once-only
1 x 3.5-day intensive workshop once-only

1 Admission into BSPP-Bachelor of Speech Pathology
1a Admission into HBSPP-Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)
2 2 of SPTH3904, SPTH3906
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a) and 2)

Clinical Skills and Practice 4 is delivered via a series of workshops across the semester – 3 short (2 hour) sessions and a three day intensive. During this capstone topic students will reflect on their course and determine how they could demonstrate that they have achieved the Flinders Graduate Qualities. They will also discuss aspects of their clinical placements which have been especially challenging, such as ethical dilemmas in client management or inequities in access to services. Working in groups they will either develop a community education project to address an area of need they have identified while on clinical placement or contribute to the development or provision of services in an area of need.

The aim of this topic is to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to review their educational experience in the context of contemporary health and education policy and practice.

• Facilitate exploration of a range of professional issues which relate directly to practice as a speech pathologist, and the transition from student to clinician.

• Assist students to reflect on clinical practical experience as a student, and to begin to look forward to a career as a speech pathologist.

• Examine primary health care models of service delivery

• Facilitate integration of factors relating to the social determinants of health

On completion of this topic, students will be able to:

• understand the role of Competency Based Occupational Standards (2011) in the maintenance of minimum standards for the profession

• identify their clinical strengths and weaknesses and strategies for their own continued professional development (GPC Unit 3)

• reflect on their transition from student to Entry Level professional and their developing professional identity (GPC Unit 3, 4)

• discuss models of service delivery, their application, and the possible constraints to the implementation of different models in different workplaces (CBOS Unit 5)

• discuss the major concepts of ethics, and have developed strategies for dealing with ethical issues arising in clinical practice (GPC Unit 4; CBOS Unit 7)

• develop skills in mentoring speech pathology students with less clinical experience than themselves (CBOS Unit 6)

• reflect on the Flinders Graduate Qualities, and how they have achieved these qualities across the Speech Pathology program (GPC Units 1-4).