Sports Placements and Applied Practice 2
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| RHEU4025 | Medicine | 4 | 30 | Spring UK |
- Code
- RHEU4025
- School
- Medicine
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 30
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
The aim of this module is to develop students experience and build their confidence in working within a sport’s multidisciplinary healthcare team. Understanding their duty of care to an athlete in the sports setting and enhancing their knowledge and skills in the management of sporting injuries at various stages, ranging from immediate pitch side care to long-term injury recovery and return to sports.
Students would also benefit from being aware of the medico-legal responsibilities and medical management in sports, alongside rules attached to different sports. Experience derived from this course could benefit students through enhancing their competence to work independently in high-level sports teams and in clinical practice.
This module builds on learning from the Sports Placement and Applied Practice 1 module with more practical reflections on scenarios that caught across a range of injuries and incidents seen on the pitchside.
Target Students
This module is offered to students are those enrolled in the MSc Sports Injury Rehabilitation program course.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: 5,000-word Reflective portfolio on placement and clinical experience
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module is designed to enable students acquire the knowledge, skills, competence and confidence in the management of sports injuries and conditions seen on the pitch side and in clinical practice, working among a wider multi-disciplinary healthcare team. Students would also be able to reflect on their own practice in a well-structured manner.As part of the requirements in this module, students would undertake a sports trauma course, that would contribute to developing students’ competence in rendering pitch side care. This would include the management of conditions such as concussions, cardiovascular resuscitation, Airway management, C-spine and common injuries that occur in sports.Learning Outcomes
- To be aware of current literature in making educated judgement of management options for common limb and life-threatening injuries seen on the pitch side.
2. To debate ethical issues within sports and understand the anti-doping regulations in sport, including related performance enhancement issues.
3. Students would understand the psychological demands of sports participation at a competitive level in both injured and uninjured athletes, and the role of pre-season clinical screening and the identification of athletes at risk of certain injuries.
4. To assess an injured athlete with regards to basic and limb and life-threatening injuries and tackle potentially critical circumstances in a timely and competent manner.
5. To reflect on clinical experience during placements in a well-structured approach and critically appraise and analyse the available literature in the sports rehabilitation field.
6. To inculcate a robust range of skills in providing care to athletes including sports massage/soft tissue work and neuromodulation techniques.