If I could give this subject zero stars, I would — and that would still feel generous. "Foundations of Clinical Practice"? More like Foundations of Wasting Time. The tutorials — assuming anyone actually showed up. Spoiler: they didn’t. Why? Because sitting through a tutor reading PowerPoint slides word-for-word is somehow even less stimulating than watching paint dry in slow motion. You’d get more clinical insight watching a YouTube video titled “How to wipe your ass.” The tutors? Legends in the art of doing the absolute bare minimum. Need help with the assignment? Good luck. Ask a question and you’ll either get a vague answer, a shrug, or a reminder to “check the rubric,” which, by the way, might as well be written in hieroglyphics for how unhelpful it is. Then comes the marking — oh, the marking. They assess it like it’s a PhD thesis that’s going to be published in The Lancet, when in reality, it’s just a foundational unit that literally no one will remember in 6 months. God forbid you miss a sentence explaining something that's already on the marking guide, because that's an instant downgrade. The irony? They want you to critically reflect on your clinical development in a subject with zero clinical relevance. No practical skills, no meaningful engagement, just recycled lecture slides and the vague promise that somehow this is all "important." This subject doesn't just miss the mark — it buries it in a shallow grave and pretends it never existed. If this is the foundation of clinical practice, someone needs to call in a structural engineer, because the whole building's going to collapse.

Really dumb

This subject was surprisingly my favourite in Semester 1. I hated the sound of group assignments but it was really enjoyable. We learnt so much about patient care and it gives us a chance to meet other students in other fields of study. Also a subject that gives you a break from other units that are more stressful.

I'm not sure why this is even a subject, all I ever learnt was how to do referencing. Stop wasting our money.

Very dry ambiguous subject. Assessment items had no relevance or direction. No assistance from tutors outside of class times at all