HMO305 - Health and Vision Sciences 3

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 3: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):2
EFTSL value:0.250
Unit Chair:Trimester 3: Colin Gafan
Cohort rule:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302 Bachelor of Vision Science/Master of Optometry

Prerequisite:

HMO303 and HMO304

Corequisite:

HMO306

Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 300 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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

2 x 2 hours seminars (PBL)
Up to 10 hours of lectures
And 2 hours of seminars (TBL) each week for 10 weeks of trimester 

Content

In this unit, students will build on, consolidate and then extend their knowledge, from previous units HMO203 and HMO303, in the physical and biomedical sciences underpinning optometric practice. Students will engage in further problem-based learning through cases drawn from a range of straightforward and more complex conditions. Cases will specifically span the refractive, binocular, developmental, age-related and systemic disorders that affect the eye. Classes and seminars will be offered in support of the problem-based sessions. The physical and biomedical sciences covered will be mainly anatomy and physiology, neurology and pharmacology, pathophysiology, therapeutics and advanced visual optics. Optometric diagnosis and management approaches will continue to be developed. Students will continue to exercise academic literacy and research skills through a series of classes and an assignment. Student learning will be consolidated through team-based learning.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Apply knowledge of the structure and function of the visual system and the pathophysiology of ocular disease to predict patterns of ocular appearance and visual performance in health and disease.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO2

Utilise understanding of pharmacological principles to determine the impact of ocular and systemic therapeutic diagnostic and management approaches on the eye and ocular function.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO3

Apply physical and geometric optical principles to describe and demonstrate the function and limitations of ocular appliances and diagnostic ophthalmic instrumentation

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

ULO4

Integrate professional skills, such as collaboration and teamwork, communication, self-management and scholarship into all aspects of personal and team learning.

GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Develop basic plans to conduct research through retrieval and analysis of information, and utilisation of knowledge of experimental design.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Trimester 3:
Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Team Based Learning 10 x 10 MCQ Individual Readiness Assurance Tests (IRATs) and
10 x 10 MCQ Team Readiness Assurance Tests (TRATs)

IRAT: 25%
TRAT: 5%
Total: 30%

  • Weekly starting from Week 2
Assessment 2: Critical review 3000 words 30%
  • Week 11
Assessment 3: Safe and Efficient Clinical Reasoning Short answer and extended response of approximately 1000 words

10%

  • Week 5
Assessment 4: Quality use of Medicines and Safe Prescribing 1 hour in-person written closed book assessment 10%
  • Week 9

Assessment 5: Examination

2 hours 20%
  • End-of-unit assessment period

*Please note that pass mark (50%) in Assessment 4 is a hurdle requirement for this unit.

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

  • Passing the examination is a hurdle requirement.
  • Successful completion of Professionalism and Placement (P & P) requirements as defined in the Optometry P & P guide.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HMO305 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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