Supervised Clinical Practice-I (SCPC 301): Course Outline (SCPC 301)

During this supervised clinical practice, students are responsible for learning the art of history taking, the first interaction with patient. Studentslearn the skills under supervision of trained physical therapists. Students become familiar with performance of these skills in all settings (inpatient and outpatient) as well as on all types of patients (surgical, non-surgical, pediatric, geriatric, etc.).

The emphasis is placed on general history taking skills as well as its pertinence to all systems (musculoskeletal, Integumentary, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neurological.) Student is required to keepa performance record of all listed competencies and successfully performon real patients during the final evaluation of the course.

It is mandatory for each student to document minimum 16 cases per semester (1 cases per week) in clinical log book duly checked and signedby clinical supervisor on weekly basis and head of institute at completion.