| Type: | Undergraduate Subject |
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| Code: | EXPH12-117 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine |
| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
This subject prepares students to manage complex chronic conditions through precision exercise prescription and advanced clinical reasoning. Building on foundational knowledge, this unit focuses on integrating evidence-based practice with real-world clinical demands, including multimorbidity, polypharmacy, and remote service delivery. Students develop skills to critically appraise guidelines and primary research, translating complex evidence into defensible exercise interventions for metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and cancer-related conditions. The curriculum emphasises safety and adaptability, teaching students to modify prescriptions based on medication interactions, physiological monitoring data, and fluctuating symptoms. A key component of the subject is the use of digital health technologies and telepractice. Students learn to interpret remote monitoring data, make safe escalation decisions, and deliver culturally safe care across diverse settings. This subject ensures graduates are ready to deliver high-quality, adaptive care in a modern, data-driven healthcare environment.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Critically appraise clinical guidelines and primary research to translate complex evidence into defensible, condition-specific exercise prescriptions for chronic disease management.
- Integrate medical history, medications, and risk markers to formulate adaptive exercise designs for individuals with chronic conditions.
- Critique multi-modal monitoring data sets to determine when to safely escalate or de-escalate exercise, in line with protocols and data governance.
- Design collaborative, interprofessional care plans using structured communication formats that prioritise cultural safety and health equity for diverse client populations.
- Defend clinical reasoning orally by integrating physiological, biomechanical, and behavioural rationales in case-based discussions.
Enrolment requirements
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Pre-requisites:Co-requisites:There are no co-requisites |
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This subject is not available to
This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. |