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PTY-20097 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

PTY-20097 - Practice in Specific Populations (MSci)
Coordinator: Hannah Swinnerton
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office:

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

The Practice in Specific Populations module builds on content introduced in Year 1 of the MSci Physiotherapy programme and enables you to assess and manage patients in specific populations (such as end of life, paediatrics, intensive care, falls) through clinical reasoning and formulation of a problem list.
You will have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills required to utilise therapeutic assessment and treatment techniques, to manage patients in specific populations.
The module aims to prepare you to work in diverse healthcare settings whilst also developing transferable skills (such as problem solving, multidisciplinary team roles, care, empathy) that can be applied in a variety of healthcare settings and specialities.

Aims
This module aims to:
Explore the contribution of physiotherapy in the management of specific populations, within the context of health and social care.
Enable students to transfer knowledge and skills in assessment and therapeutic management to specific populations.

Intended Learning Outcomes

relate underpinning knowledge to explain the pathophysiology and clinical features of specific populations/ conditions: 2
apply and adapt safe and effective therapeutic assessment for specific populations/ conditions: 1
apply and adapt appropriate physiotherapy management to specific populations/conditions: 1
use clinical reasoning to discuss the therapeutic effects of physiotherapy management in specific populations/ conditions: 1
interpret the wider role of multidisciplinary team in specific populations/ conditions: 1

Study hours

40 tutor led hours which include:
~ 17 hours lectures,
~ 2 hours of asynchronous learning
~ 3 hours of practical
~ 6 hours workshops
~ 3 hours of tutorials
~ 2 hours of assessment preparation.
~ 7 hours guided study and asynchronous content
110 hours independent study:
10 hours of self-directed assessment preparation
100 hours of independent study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 70%
Presentation
Students in their small group (4-6 students) will be required to present on interpretation of the physiotherapy assessment findings and treatment plan with their therapeutic effects and mention other MDT involvement required with justifications for a given patient population. The presentation will consist of 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes of questions.

2: Exam weighted 30%
Computer Task
Computer Task: The students will be required to complete a computer task under assessment condition. The computer task will involve answering 20 multiple choice questions in 40 minutes.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 December 2025