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655-410 Optometry | |
Note | This subject is only available to BOptom students. |
Credit Points | 87.5 |
HECS Band | 2 |
Coordinator | Prof N A McBrien |
Prerequisites | Optometry 655-330, 655-340, 655-351, 655-352. |
Semester | Year long (view timetable) |
Contact | 60 lectures; 36 tutorials and seminars; 24 hours of ophthalmological case discussions; 72 hours of project work and no less than 450 hours of clinical work and clinical demonstrations. Clinical work and some lecture and some practical classes are held in the three weeks before Semester 1 and for three weeks between Semesters 1 and 2. Students are rostered to attend the general, binocular vision, contact lens, and community health clinics of the Victorian College of Optometry, the Low Vision Clinic at Kooyong for 32 weeks, and the Broadmeadows Community Health Centre. Students are also rostered to attend two approved private practices in the city and the country. Students have the opportunity to undertake four to six weeks of clinical training in an overseas clinical setting in the weeks between semesters. Those who do not take an overseas externship spend one week in a country private practice |
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. 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 management and rehabilitation of patients with severe visual impairment, the management of children's vision, management of ocular disease, general medicine with emphasis on those systemic diseases with ocular manifestations, and the diagnosis and management of abnormal colour vision. Students will also conduct a practical research project or detailed literature survey and complete a 6000 - 10 000 word dissertation. Students are also required to dispense a proportion of the spectacle prescriptions they write during their attendance at clinics and complete other dispensing assignments. |
Assessment | Two 3-hour and one 2-hour end-of-year written examinations (42.5%); progressive assessment of clinical work during the year and a clinical examination at the end of Semester 1 (37.5%); a project dissertation on an approved subject (10%); an oral examination, written clinical reports and assessment of participation in review clinics (10%). Each component must be passed. |
Recommended Texts | In addition to the prescribed texts purchased for second and third year subjects, students are strongly advised to purchase:
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