655-430 Clinical Optometry Practice

This subject is only available to BOptom students.

Optometry 655-321; 655-341; 655-028 or 655-328; 655-330 or 655-332; 655-351 or 655-359; and microbiology 526-306.

Optometry 655-441, 655-451 and 655-461.

In this subject students will develop their clinical skills with direct patient consultations and management. Students will utilise the optometric techniques learned in 655-330 and refine and improve their patient management skills. Under supervision, students will learn appropriate assessment of patient history and symptoms, and patient communication skills. Application of standard optometric techniques will be undertaken in direct patient management and students will develop their clinical routine. Students will in addition see contact lens patients and observe low vision and paediatric consultations.

Ongoing assessment of clinical work throughout the semester (45%); a 2-hour practical and oral examination in the first semester examination period (20%); a 2-hour written examination in the second semester examination period (35%). Satisfactory completion of all three components of assessment is necessary to pass the subject.

• K Zadnik, The Ocular Examination, Measurements and Findings. WB Saunders, 1997 (or later edition).
• D B Elliott, Clinical Procedures in Primary Care. 2nd Edn. Butterworth Heinemann (or later edition).