Process for gaining clinical placements

You are required to submit original 'certified true copies' of the following documents before you can be allocated internal and external clinical placements in the VU Exercise Clinic & Exercise Rehab Program:

1. Victoria Police Check (must be renewed annually)
2. current Working with Children Check (valid for 5 years)
3. current CPR certificate (requires yearly update as per the Resuscitation Council of Australia guidelines)
4. current Level 2 First Aid certificate (different organisations name this unit differently - valid for 3 years).

If you are enrolled in VUCER courses, it is compulsory that you successfully pass the clinical work placement readiness assessments Part A and Part B before you are eligible to undertake clinical placements.

The aim of readiness assessments is to assess your competency for commencement of clinical placement units. This ensures that both students and supervisors reap the maximum benefits of an arranged placement.

Readiness assessments

Part A: Induction sessions

Consists of two lectures and two practicals/labs.

Part B: Theory assessment

The assessment dates, times and location will be announced a few weeks before semester commences.

• Students must achieve a result of 70% or more to be eligible to commence clinical placements.
• Students whose Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is not approved before the assessment dates are required to sit both the assessments on the scheduled dates. This ensures students do not miss out on the opportunity to sit the assessments if their RPL application fails.

Part C: Practical assessment

Students are given 15 minutes to prepare a case study. Thereafter, they will take a 'student subject' through a mock session which includes:

• pre-exercise assessments
• exercise-testing and
• exercise prescription.

Students are graded on the competency of their practical skills and their interaction skills.

• Students must achieve a result of 70% or more to be eligible to commence clinical placements.

All students are required to pass both Part B and C assessments in order to complete AHE4104 Clinical Exercise Practice.

Exemptions for postgraduate students

Students who have undertaken undergraduate studies at Victoria University and have successfully completed the AHE3115 unit are not required to repeat the theory and practical assessments of the Clinical Work Placement Readiness Assessment Procedure for postgraduate 2014 AMEP course enrolment.

If you have studied at any other tertiary institution you are:

• required to attend Part A and
• successfully pass the Part B & C assessments.

If you're a student who considers yourself to be exempted from the above Clinical Placement Readiness assessments, you are required to provide proper justification (such as academic history & study unit outline) and verify in writing why you should be exempted from these assessments.