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PTY-20101 - 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-20101 - Evidence Based Exercise Prescription
Coordinator: Elizabeth Rutley
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

Exercises are used by the physiotherapists in managing various conditions, utilising face-to-face and digital skills to deliver these exercise programmes. In this module you learn to design a safe, effective and evidence-based exercise programmes for service users. You will learn to use appropriate digital skills in addition to summarising underpinning guidelines and evidence for these exercise programmes.

Aims
This module aims to enhance student ability to prescribe evidence-based exercises for service users. The module aims to enable students to design safe, effective and evidence-based exercise programmes, including application of coaching skills. for individuals with a variety of clinical diagnoses through appraisal of the related literature.

Intended Learning Outcomes

describe and apply the key principles of exercise prescription linked to Physiotherapy assessment: 1,2
develop and apply coaching skills to deliver exercise for individuals and groups of service users: 1
synthesise underpinning knowledge and rationale to prescribe and adapt appropriate exercise dosage for a range of populations: 2
identify and summarise evidence underpinning exercise prescription: 2

Study hours

32 tutor-led hours which includes:
~ 9 hours of lectures
~ 9 hours of practical
~ 10 hours of workshops
~ 2 hours tutorials
~ 2 of assessment preparation

118 hours of independent study including:
~ 20 hours of student led group activity
~ 90 hours of self-directed study
~ 8 hours of directed study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 40%
Students in their small group (4-6 students) will create an electronic resource on exercise programme.
The students will create an electronic resource (e.g., video) demonstrating an exercise programme for the population/s in the given scenario in their small group (4-6 students). They must explain the rationale behind the programme in lay language and demonstrate coaching skills in their resource. The programme should include immediate exercise plan and progression within the next 1-3 months. The duration of the resource should be around 10-15 minutes including the interactions.

2: Report weighted 60%
1500 word written report (individual report)
Student will provide the rationale of exercise prescription they have created, summarise two full text articles related the evidence behind the exercise/s, and identify the underpinning guideline/s for their exercise prescription.

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