HMO704 - Community Optometry 2

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: Heather Connor
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302, H710
Prerequisite:

HMO703

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:

The equivalent of four days per week (approx. 8 work hours per day) professional experience (placement), in community settings (approximately 11 weeks, some of which fall outside of trimester time). Approximately 8 hours per week (the equivalent of 1 day), across 10 within-trimester weeks, undertaking a structured, online-delivered program. This online program will involve engaging with specified resources, consisting of an online curriculum and twice-weekly webinar participation. Approximately 5 days (of 8 hours each, distributed across the two weeks constituting the final week of trimester and the study period) of structured consolidation of learning.

 

Note:

^Students enrol at Waurn Ponds (Geelong) and undertake clinical placements in metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria

Content

In this unit students will continue to undertake clinical placements in extended community optometry settings in metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria for the equivalent of four days per week. Their learning will be supported by access to online-accessible learning materials and an online logbook enabling them to map their clinical development progress. One further day per week will be devoted to completion of a online-delivered learning program, self-directed private study and webinar participation. Students will continue to extend their previous learning of the competencies for optometry practice defined by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ) to graduate level through application in the community optometry settings. Students will return to campus in the final two weeks of trimester, for face-to-face teaching and clinical training sessions, in order to consolidate their skills prior to their final assessments. There will be particular attention to assessment and prescribing of pharmacological interventions for common conditions in optometry. The experience gained will enable students to analyse, reflect upon and consolidate their understanding of legal and ethical issues; professional, management and business development; and the social, public and population health context of optometry practice.

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

Design and conduct an optometric examination demonstrating the level of competency necessary for independent practice and using an appropriate, comprehensive range of examination sub-skills as indicated by the patient presentation.

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

ULO2

Independently evaluate clinical information, formulating a diagnosis from a series of viable differentials, creating an appropriate management plan and communicating outcomes and appropriate advice to patients presenting for optometric care.

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

ULO3

Demonstrate comprehensive patient evaluation, examination and management skills, consistent with the principles of evidence-based practice and across a wide-range of commonly encountered clinical situations and scenarios.

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

ULO4

Select, research and interpret interesting case presentations, communicating the findings to colleagues, in an evidence-based fashion, through verbal, electronic and written media.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO6: Self-management

ULO5

Model professional behaviour, across all domains of professionalism, toward patients, colleagues and peers, and display the capacity for reflective practice, in all clinical and work-related situations.

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

ULO6

Analyse patient visual requirements, recommend appropriate optical and non-optical solutions, and order and dispense these solutions within the appropriate business and financial framework.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
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: Supervisor assessment of clinical performance Performance on placement 15%
  • Daily (4 days per week)
Assessment 2: Clinical case communication tasks 1 case report: 2000 words and 1 verbal clinical conundrum presentation

Case report: 15%
Verbal clinical conundrum presentation: 10%
Total: 25%

  • Week 6
Assessment 3: Weekly online case-based assessment Weekly 20%
  • Weekly
Assessment 4: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) End of trimester examination 25%
  • End-of-unit assessment period
Assessment 5: Personal Learning Plan, Deakin staff assessment of logbook entries and Deakin staff assessment of professional identity   15%
  • Refer to unit site

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

  • Attendance on all scheduled clinical residential placement days
  • Completion of on-line logbook entries for each clinical interaction
  • Passing 7 out of 10 OSCE stations and achieving an overall pass mark for the OSCEs.

Learning Resource

There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.

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