Physio Response to Student Feedback

BM1042 Anatomy and Physiology for Physiotherapy 2

• Positive: Interactive nature of anatomy laboratories. Mixed responses regarding workshops. Some found them very useful and some found them less engaging. Response: the intention of the workshops is to apply theory knowledge to activities. Activities do require the academic to be interactive with the students and guide them through the activities. This can differ significantly between academic teaching styles. This year in 2025 I have personally tried to limit the number of questions in the workbooks that require looking up answers and instead create activities which allow the students to apply their knowledge based off their learnings from the relevant activity to answer the questions. Note, if the students are not up to date with lecture recordings, then this becomes difficult.
• Positive: Recordings separated into learning objectives. Response: recordings remain separated into their learning objectives and are now more concise (shorter videos to break down concepts).
• Suggested mini quizzes in class to complete and then go through answers instead of case-studies. Response: the intention of the case studies is to apply theory to a clinical scenario. We will revise how we deliver the case studies and modify the way we address the scenarios to make them more engaging and applicable.
• Group assessment not favoured. Response: we will be changing the group assessment to individual assessments, the % of the assessments will be modified to keep 2 oncourse and 2 end of semester assessment items.
• More practice exams for anatomy. Response: Physiology prepared a practice exam for the first time this semester which the students found helpful. Anatomy will be providing workbooks which are used to develop the exam questions, so the students will be exposed to the exam questions if they attend the anatomy practicals and complete their workbooks in class.

HS1401 Health and Health Care in Australia

• 21 responses received.
• We offer a flexible tutorial delivery (can choose online, in-person or recorded tutorial), however several did not know they could go to the face-to-face option. Response: we already sign-post this with our intro video, LearnJCU tutorial description and via scheduling services. In SP2 2025 will provide more communication about the oncampus option in Week 1 tutorials.
• Some comments on the difficulty of the exam – however we had a good range of grades (and a very low% of fails). Continue to review assessment questions as part of quality assurance.

PS2002 Physiotherapy 1

Only 1 response found the scenarios and simulation very useful. Self assessment, booklets and recorded material really helped.

TM4401 Health, Policy and Planning

• Students indicated that assessment items were too much in such a short learning period. Assessment 1 has been changed from a written assessment to a short multiple choice quiz.
• Students requested more time in the face-to-face tutorials dedicated to understand the final assessment, which will be implemented in the 2025 delivery.

HS5111 Alcohol and Other Drugs

No student feedback was received for this subject.

HS5603 Health Service Evaluation 1

• The subject was well received by the enrolled students, and subject structure was evaluated as fit for purpose.
• Students have reported that they appreciate the timely and thorough feedback they receive, the availability and support provided by the subject coordinator.

HS5604 Health Service Evaluation 2

• The subject was well received by the enrolled students, and subject structure was evaluated as fit for purpose.
• Students have reported that they appreciate the timely and thorough feedback they receive, the availability and support provided by the subject coordinator.

RH1002 Communication Skills for Health Professionals

• A concern was raised by some students that there is a need for further clarity around the expectations associated with subject assessment tasks. The two written subject assessments had been redeveloped for 2024 and it is possible that there is a need to revisit the instructions and marking rubrics. Both assessments will be reviewed with the Occupational Therapy course coordinator prior to the next subject delivery so that appropriate changes can be made. Representatives from the student cohort will also be invited to offer specific feedback to assist in strengthening the assignment guidelines.
• Students identified problems with the online quiz in which additional questions were unexpectedly added to the assessment. This was a one-off technical issue that has been resolved for 2025 and beyond. For the 2024 cohort, all students were credited for these questions to ensure nobody was disadvantaged.
• One student indicated that there had been an incongruence in the messaging between different class tutors as well as a perceived inability for tutors to answer assessment related queries without first consulting the subject coordinator. This latter issue resulted out of an intention to ensure that there was consistency of information provided relating to assessment tasks. In response to this feedback, however, additional planning sessions will be scheduled across the study period in future iterations of this subject to ensure that all subject tutors feel confident in responding to student queries in a timely and consistent manner.

RH1004 Foundations of Allied Health Professional Practice

• Having chairs for all prac classes so that students can sit down and take notes. Chairs will then need to be moved out of the way but this can be accommodated.
• Reviewing the practical exam to ensure there is enough time to do all the tasks on all the cards.
• We will look to also have a practical exam video folder as some students reported it was difficult to find material online even though all weeks had labels stating what the week covered as well as the videos relevant for that week eg week 4- safe patient handling and mobility aids. Under content it had lecture material, workshop material, practical exam bed mobility techniques video and written exam bed mobility techniques video (these were videos of techniques students need to be able to do but were not in the prac exam eg hoist).
• We will keep the open practice sessions as students reported this to be very beneficial in practicing for the prac exam.
• We will keep the practical exam out of the exam period.

HS2405 Health Professional Research 2

• Application of how the information relates to or extends upon content already learned regarding performing literature reviews. Response: Greater emphasis on how a structured critical appraisal differs to a literature review but also emphasizing the importance of this process for informing your subsequent research question development.
• Suggestion for creating downloadable word documents. Response: The teaching team will explore options for students to have a note taking resource so students can be active participants in tutorial and note construction.
• Students appreciated having guest lecturers. Response: This approach will continue to be utilised in 2025.
• Duration of tutorials and timeframes for task completion could be improved. Response: In 2025, students will be exposed to project management. During the tutorials, each group member will take the lead of being the acting project manager for a week. This will require providing an overview of achievements and next steps that will be performed by the group. This provide further scaffolding to the group task and to the tutorial activities.

PS2004 Neuroscience in Physiotherapy

• Request for two prac classes per week. Response: There will be two prac classes per week when we change to trimesters in 2026.
• Anatomy self-quizzes not aligning with content each week. Response: This will be corrected for 2025.
• Lit review and anatomy spot test in close proximity. Response: This will significantly change in 2026.

PS3001 Physiotherapy 3

• Students want more opportunity to practice the case studies so this will be changed.
• They have requested moving the assignment earlier so this will occur.

PS3003 Physiotherapy 5

• Request to shift movement analysis earlier. Response: This will occur in 2026.

PS3006 Complex Cases in Rural, Remote and Indigenous Communities

• Students valued the in class cases studies but would like more linkages to the services that would be used. A review of the cases studies will occur to help that linkage and reinforce the process for the assignment.