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HMO701 - Advanced Optometric Studies 1

Year:

2024 unit information
Enrolment modes: Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s): 4
EFTSL value: 0.500
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302, H710
Prerequisite:

HMO305 and HMO306
Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 600 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
Scheduled learning activities - campus

2 x 2 hours of seminars (PBL)
3 x 2 hours of practical experiences (clinical skills)
1 x 2 hours of seminar (TBL) for 10 weeks of trimester
Up to 10 hours of supporting lectures per week for 10 weeks of trimester
1 x 2 hours ophthalmic dispensing practical experience (workshop)
1 x 8 hours of Transition to Clinical Practice, practical experience (workshop)
Up to 12 hours of inter-professional care plan development
Up to 66 hours of clinical optometric professional experience (placement) across trimester
3 x 4 hours of ophthalmology professional experience (placements) 
Note:

If you have not completed the prerequisites HMO305 and HMO306 in the last three months please contact health-enquire@deakin.edu.au

Content

In this unit students will start to demonstrate their capacity to apply knowledge of the physical and biomedical sciences and the professional and business practices underpinning optometry in the clinical setting. Students will engage in problem-based learning cases drawn from more complex optometric conditions, associated with developmental and refractive disorders of vision, ocular disease and therapy and systemic disorders of vision. Classes, seminars, clinical laboratories and optometry and ophthalmology clinical placements will be offered in support of the problem-based sessions.

Students will complete an inter-professional education (IPE) module where they will be allocated into multi-disciplinary teams with students from across the faculty. They will work with these teams online to develop care plans for three complex cases.

Students will continue to gain the competencies for optometric practice, defined by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ), across all aspects of ophthalmic examination and patient management, including: patient examination, diagnosis and management; optometric dispensing and business; and ethics, law and public health. Transition to clinical practice workshops will prepare students for clinical residential placement and highlight topical issues in optometric practice. In this unit, students will examine their first patients under supervision at the Australian College of Optometry (ACO) and gain their first experiences of designing a clinical research project and collecting data.

Hurdle requirement

  • Successful completion of Professionalism and Placement (P&P) requirements, as defined in the Optometry P&P guide
  • Submission of a personal learning plan covering clinical skills development and problem-solving readiness for the residential placement program

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