| Περίληψη: | Clinical exercise physiologists are university-trained practitioners who provide exercise services for people living with chronic disease, disability or injury, and are recognised as Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEP) under a national system administered by the Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science (AAESS). AEPs were being educated through "traditional" exercise and sport science courses across most of the university sector. These courses were on the whole designed for work with healthy clientele and athletes, but not those living with chronic medical conditions. The objectives of the project were to (i) benchmark the education and training of the AEP against established allied health professions (ii) scope the gaps in curricula and clinical placements across the higher education sector (iii) develop a new set of knowledge and competency accreditation criteria and propose these to the national association (AAESS) for the accreditation of practitioners for Medicare and other schemes including WorkCover (iv) devise a strategy to align courses with the new accreditation system for individual practitioners, and (v) design a new clinical practice set of guidelines and system. [p.7, ed]
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