XNB463 Clinical Exercise Physiology Business Practice

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

Exercise Physiologists need the skills and knowledge to operate within or apply entrepreneur skills to develop a new business. The unit will give a fundamental overview of the critical areas involved in starting, running or managing an exercise physiology practice, with a particular focus on inter-disciplinary approaches to business ideas that service the multi-faceted needs of chronic diseased populations. The unit identifies the legal, ethical, and professional frameworks that guide practice. This unit is in the final year of your course and integrates with your clinical placements.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Apply the principles of innovation and entrepreneurship and basic business operations to develop an innovative exercise physiology business idea, program, or service, with a focus on inter-professional practice.
2. Reflect on professional and personal attributes, skills, experience, and knowledge that have been gained across the degree and apply this reflection to employability frameworks and early career development skills.
3. Describe the Australian fair work and compensable scheme principles and regulations and evaluate as they relate to operating and working as a clinical exercise physiologist.

Content

Learning Approaches

The unit will be delivered intensively. Lectures are presented online with workshops and tutorials held on-campus.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

• A range of formative exercises will be discussed in class
• Comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
• Generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
• Criteria sheet grading
• Feedback from peers

Assessment

Overview

There are two pieces of assessment to be completed in this unit.

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Business Concept Proposal

Business Concept Proposal - Oral and Written Presentation: You will be required to develop an idea for a clinical exercise physiology practice that demonstrates your understanding of the key considerations involved in starting a business. A key element of the business concept proposal is to address a chronic disease or health need and where appropriate, take a multi-disciplined approach to patient management. You will be required to demonstrate your business model, marketing, avenues of financial income, applicable legislation and business forecast.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Assessment: Career Development Portfolio

You will be required to develop an industry applicable employment portfolio. The portfolio will comprise of a cover letter, curriculum vitae (CV), a mock interview, contract evaluation and mentorship agreement. To accommodate the diversity in student backgrounds and paths a range of different hypothetical jobs will be provided. In the cover letter, CV, mock interview, and mentorship agreement you are required to reflect on your professional and personal attributes that you have gained across your education and life. You will then apply that reflection to each of the five elements in the form of a traditional employment portfolio. You are required to source an appropriate mentor that aligns with your goals and future professional pursuits. The mentor agreement is designed to demonstrate your commit to future learning, self-development and building professional networks. Finally, you will be presented with a mock employment contract. In this contract you will be required to evaluate Australian fair work and compensable scheme principles and regulations.

This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

There are no-out-of-the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Course Learning Outcomes

XN51 Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology

1. Apply knowledge, skills, and clinical reasoning within the professional, legislative, and ethical standards of practice.
   Relates to: Business Concept Proposal