Task Description:

This assessment task requires students to examine systemic factors influencing allied health service delivery in public and private settings with a focus on health inequities and disparities. Students will respond to a series of questions that consider professional, ethical, and social issues related to the case study and propose a creative interprofessional service response plan that considers resource allocation, impact, and sustainability.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 3

Weight:

30 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

Working in interprofessional groups of students, this Assessment Task requires students to undertake a modified Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) review of health promotion initiatives that relate to the community needs analysis.

Each student group will produce a Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) review document demonstrating research and advanced writing skills to report implications for allied health practice in community-based settings or at a population level. As a group, students will define a clear and focused question, develop a search strategy, identify relevant literature and critically appraise the evidence.

Individually, students will summarise the findings to propose a clinical bottom line or health promotion recommendation (1 page). Each student will submit a CAT review document with both group and individual components. Outcomes will be examined in terms of impacts on health and social outcomes at a community or population level.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 8

Weight:

40 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

Community Needs Assessment.
This assessment task is attached to a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience, partnering with local Tasmanian organisations. The assessment task will be completed in interprofessional groups of 3-4 students.

Each group will be connected to a Tasmanian community issue relevant to the placement context and undertake a community needs assessment. The needs assessment should integrate principles of public health, socially determined health and equity.

The assessment task involves 3 parts.

Part A. Community Profile: Group Task
As a team, you are to define and characterise the community based on a needs analysis that considers community initiatives, human and social services, healthcare services, and main places of employment. Your community profiling / needs assessment will reflect the stages of the Community Level Professional Reasoning Framework (CL-PRF), including national and international comparisons of social and environmental contexts.

Part B. Health Promotion Plan
As a team, you will devise an innovative health promotion initiative or strategy addressing the identified community needs. As a team, you will create a video pitch that describes and justifies the proposal, presenting a clear and convincing capacity building case that could be presented to the partnering organisation and/or local council for consideration. The justification should consider resource allocation, impact, and sustainability.

Part C. Reflection
Each student is required to complete an individual critical reflection on the interprofessional project and their development of collaborative leadership capabilities.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

30 %

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CRITERION