HMO701 - Advanced Optometric Studies 1
| Year: | 2025 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) |
| 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.
Students will continue to gain the competencies for optometric practice, defined by Optometry Australia and endorsed 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
- Successful completion of a personal learning plan and portfolio of evidence covering clinical skills development and problem-solving readiness for the residential placement program
Unit Fee Information
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