| Type: | Postgraduate Subject |
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| Code: | PHTY71-600 |
| EFTSL: | 0.125 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine |
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| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
This subject focuses on developing and consolidating graduate competencies, consistent with profession-specific competency standards, including those relevant to international physiotherapy practice.
The subject will emphasise the development of skills and behaviours that are essential for learning in a clinical practice environment. Students will explore physiotherapy practice from an international perspective, including consideration of inter-professional team roles across countries, and the effects of different cultural, political, economic, and physical environmental issues and priorities. They will undertake and reflect on a range of activities in a series of classroom-based sessions and an international excursion (or equivalent domestic experience). Learning activities will provide the opportunity to develop and demonstrate advanced-level cultural competency and professional leadership.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Self-reflect on own behaviours and assess own practice against entry-level, new graduate performance standards.
- Identify areas and situations outside own skills and expertise in order to identify appropriate learning goals and strategies for use in a clinical environment.
- Evaluate own practice using self-reflection as a mechanism to improve performance and operate within individual and professional strengths and limitations.
- Recognise the need for and implement appropriate strategies to manage one's own physical and mental health resilience.
- Demonstrate acceptable professional and ethical behaviours in online activities in preparation for learning with authentic clients in clinical practice.
- Communicate effectively in a culturally appropriate manner and operate as an effective team member.
- Provide sensitive and constructive feedback to peers, clinical supervisors and academics.
- Effectively manage actual and potential conflict in a proactive and constructive manner.
- Critically reflect on the impact of different cultural, political, economic, health practitioner roles, and physical environments on physiotherapy issues and priorities in different countries.
Enrolment requirements
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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. |
Subject outlines
- January 2026 [Situated - Global Physiotherapy: Culture, Context and Practice]
- January 2026 [Situated - Global Physiotherapy: Culture, Context and Practice]
- September 2020 [Mixed (Face-to-Face) - Special Topic in Physiotherapy Professional Practice 1]
- May 2020 [Mixed (Face-to-Face) - Special Topic in Physiotherapy Professional Practice 1]
Subject dates
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January 2026
Non-Standard Offering - Sitting 1 Enrolment opens: 16/11/2025 Semester start: 12/01/2026 Subject start: 12/01/2026 Last enrolment: 16/01/2026 Teaching census: 22/01/2026 Withdraw - Financial: 23/01/2026 Withdraw - Academic: 29/01/2026 -
January 2026
Non-Standard Offering - Sitting 2 Enrolment opens: 16/11/2025 Semester start: 26/01/2026 Subject start: 26/01/2026 Last enrolment: 30/01/2026 Teaching census: 05/02/2026 Withdraw - Financial: 06/02/2026 Withdraw - Academic: 12/02/2026
| Non-Standard Offering - Sitting 1 | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 16/11/2025 |
| Semester start: | 12/01/2026 |
| Subject start: | 12/01/2026 |
| Last enrolment: | 16/01/2026 |
| Teaching census: | 22/01/2026 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 23/01/2026 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 29/01/2026 |
| Non-Standard Offering - Sitting 2 | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 16/11/2025 |
| Semester start: | 26/01/2026 |
| Subject start: | 26/01/2026 |
| Last enrolment: | 30/01/2026 |
| Teaching census: | 05/02/2026 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 06/02/2026 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 12/02/2026 |