PTY-30061 - Module Specification
School of Allied Health Professions and Pharmacy
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

The Caseload Management of Frailty, Trauma and Long Term Conditions module builds on content introduced in Year 1 and 2 of the MSci Physiotherapy programme and enables you to prioritise, assess and manage patients with frailty, trauma and long-term conditions.
You will have the opportunity to integrate and apply knowledge and skills in the context of current evidence for frailty, trauma, and long-term conditions and understand principles of cognitive, perceptual and mental health management in specific patient populations.
The module aims to prepare you to work in different physiotherapy practice settings working with people living with frailty, trauma and long-term conditions. The module also helps you develop highly desired employability skills (such as prioritisation, advanced communication, clinical reasoning, teamworking) that can be applied in a variety of healthcare settings and specialties.

This module aims to develop and advance the students underpinning theory, knowledge and skills in the prioritisation, assessment and management of frailty, trauma and long term conditions and to enable the student to clinically reason and effectively manage a complex clinical caseload utilising the wider healthcare team to promote quality of life; advancing their caseload management skills.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Synthesise and rationalise underpinning knowledge in the management of frailty, trauma, and long-term conditions.: 1
Critically evaluate the effective adaptation of physiotherapeutic assessment, treatment within the context of a patient with frailty, trauma and/or a long-term condition.: 1
Synthesise and rationalise assessment findings, including differential diagnosis to formulate a clinically reasoned problem list.: 1
Critically propose an effective physiotherapeutic caseload management strategy for a ward involving complex patient presentations utilising evidenced based practice and current clinical guidelines.: 1
Critically discuss the implications of effectively triaging, assessing, and prioritising complex physiotherapy caseloads in environments including primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings.: 1
Critically evaluate the roles and integration of the multi-disciplinary team within the context of caseload management and discharge to enhance the patients' quality of life.: 1

Study hours

Active learning hours: 48 hours
Lectures (live in situ or synchronous online) ~ 34 hours.
Tutorials ~2 hours.
Asynchronous directed material ~ 9 hours
Formative assessment preparation - 3 hours

Independent learning: 102 hours
Study to include preparation for tutorials / seminars and writing for assessment ~ 102 hours.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment