Course overview
In this course, students will develop advanced knowledge and skills necessary for exercise prescription relevant assessment, development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation for individuals and groups with a range of chronic and complex conditions based on stages of disease, risk factors, complications, co-morbidities, medications, medical and allied health treatments and psychosocial factors. Exercise and pharmacological, medical and surgical treatments; assessment of clinical outcomes following exercise interventions; clinical data interpretation; risk factor stratification; assessment and monitoring of physiological responses to exercise; exercise capacity limits and thresholds; precautions and contra-indications for exercise; adverse signs of and symptoms during exercise and recovery; design of clinical exercise interventions and exercise leadership; application of communication for behaviour modification and client interaction, evidence based practice and best practice guidelines for Accredited Exercise Physiologists.
Course learning outcomes
- Apply appropriate assessment protocols and methodologies that are sensitive to specific sociocultural, individual and environmental contexts, for individuals with chronic and complex clinical presentations.
- Design, implement and evaluate safe and effective, evidence informed exercise interventions for individuals with chronic and complex health conditions, particularly the Accredited Exercise Physiologist target pathologies.
- Teach, coach and motivate clients to facilitate self-management of exercise and healthy lifestyle, using models of behaviour change, scientific evidence and clinical reasoning, and accounting for sociocultural, individual and environmental factors.
- Access, evaluate and apply the best available evidence to inform practice, including adapting as required to suit complex multi-morbid clinical presentations and novel situations.