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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Science : Optometry

655-410 Optometry

Coordinator:

Professor B L Cole

Prerequisite/s:

Functional Disorders of Vision 655-330; Diseases of the Eye 655-340; Ophthalmic Prosthetics 655-350.

Timetable:

All Year

Contact:

108 lectures (four a week); 36 tutorials and seminars; 452 hours of clinical work and clinical demonstrations. Clinical work and some lecture and practical classes are held in the three weeks before first semester and for three weeks between the first and second semesters. Students are required to attend the general, binocular vision, contact lens, and community health clinics of the Victorian College of Optometry and the Low Vision Clinic at Kooyong for 32 weeks, and are also rostered to attend two approved private practices

Objectives:

On completion of this subject, students will have:

  • a broad and strong command of their knowledge of the disorders of vision and their management;

  • developed a very high level of skill with optometric procedures and will be competent in the identification, diagnosis and resolution of patient visual problems;

  • skills in patient communication;

  • a well developed sense of their ethical, professional and legal responsibilities.

Content:

Disorders of vision: diagnosis and management of abnormal colour vision, management of patients with severe visual impairment, management of children; vision in relation to learning disorders. General medicine: systemic disease with ocular manifestations. Communications and counselling techniques. Ophthalmic prosthetics: contact lens prosthetics, advanced ophthalmic dispensing. Practice management, ethics and professional behaviour: the law in relation to optometry, ethical principles and practice standards, practice management. Examination and study of patients exhibiting unusual clinical features. Students are required to dispense a proportion of the spectacle prescriptions they write during their attendance at clinics and complete other dispensing assignments.

Assessment:

Three 3-hour end-of-year written examinations; clinical examinations and an oral examination; a 4000-word essay on an approved subject; patient reports including general reports, colour vision, binocular or motility dysfunction and photo-documentation; clinical work during the year.
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