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655-410 Optometry | |
Credit Points | 93.75 |
Coordinator | Professor B L Cole |
Prerequisites | Functional Disorders of Vision 655-330; Diseases of the Eye 655-340; Ophthalmic Prosthetics 655-350. |
Semester | All year |
Contact | 96 lectures (four a week); 36 tutorials and seminars; 24 hours of ophthalmological case discussions, no less than 450 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 rostered 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 in the city and the country. Students have the opportunity to undertake up to six weeks of clinical training in an overseas clinical setting in the weeks between semesters |
Subject Description | On completion of this subject, students will have a broad and strong command of their knowledge of the disorders of vision and their management; have developed a very high level of skill with optometric procedures and will be competent in the identification, diagnosis and resolution of patient visual problems. They will also be skilled in patient communication and have a well developed sense of their ethical, professional and legal responsibilities. The core of the subject is the examination and treatment of patients in the clinics of the Victorian College of Optometry and attendance at clinical demonstrations of patients exhibiting unusual clinical features. In addition, lectures and tutorials will provide detailed instruction in the diagnosis and management of abnormal colour vision, the management and rehabilitation of patients with severe visual impairment, the management of children, management of ocular disease, general medicine with emphasis on those systemic disease with ocular manifestations, communications and counselling techniques and advanced ophthalmic prosthetics especially contact lens prosthetics. There will be series of lectures on ethics, practice standards, the law in relation to optometry, and practice management. 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 (37.5%); progressive assessment of clinical work during the year and end-of-year clinical examinations (37.5%), an oral examination, a 4000-word essay on an approved subject, written clinical reports and assessment of participation in review clinics (25%). Each component must be passed. |
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