HMO701 - Advanced Optometric Studies 1

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)
Credit point(s):4
EFTSL value:0.500
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Alexandra Jaworski and Kerryn Hart
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302, H710
Prerequisite:

HMO305 and HMO306

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical 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.

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

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.

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

ULO1

Discriminate between ocular and systemic pathophysiological disease processes in preparing coherent differential diagnoses and appropriate disease management plans.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO2

Combine technical, observational and communication skills in developing and implementing a coherent general and/or targeted clinical examination of a patient.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Appraise clinical data obtained from a clinical examination and under guidance determine an appropriate course of action for a patient.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Collaborate with peers to design and implement simple methodology for a clinical study, and to collect and collate data.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork

ULO5

Combine discipline knowledge, professional behaviour, and awareness of social and cultural diversity in recording and reflecting upon key aspects of the practitioner-patient interaction in personal and collaborative practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO6

Identify areas and associated strategies of professional development to become a culturally safe practitioner for Indigenous patients.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
GLO8: Global citizenship

Assessment

Trimester 1:

Assessment description

Student output

Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)

Indicative due week

Assessment 1: Team-based learning

10 individual readiness assurance tests and team readiness assurance tests

15%

  • Weekly

Assessment 2: Individual ethics quiz and group ethics application

Individual online ethics quiz
2500 word group ethics application submission

15%

  • Week 3: Online Quiz
  • Week 6: Ethics application

Assessment 3: Clinical consultation assessment

 

30%

  • Students will conduct patient examinations across the trimester and end-of-unit assessment period during rostered clinical placements

Assessment 4: Examination

90 minutes

15%

  • End-of-unit assessment period

Assessment 5: Inter-professional team care plan development

 

15%

  • 10 days after the case conference

Assessment 6: Quality Use of Medicines and Safe and Efficient Patient-centred care

70 minutes in-person written closed book assessment

10%

  • Week 9

 

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

  • 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

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HMO701 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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