HMO701 - Advanced Optometric Studies 1
Unit details
| Year | 2026 unit information |
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 4 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.500 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Alexandra Jaworski and Kerryn Hart |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302, H710 |
| Prerequisite: | HMO305, HMO306 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 2 x 2 hours of seminars (PBL) |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 600 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Note:If you have not completed the prerequisites HMO305 and HMO306 in the last three months please seek enrolment assistance from a Student Adviser at Student Central. | |
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.
Learning outcomes
Each unit in your course is a building block towards Deakin's Graduate Learning Outcomes - not all units develop and assess every Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO).
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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| ULO1 | Discriminate between ocular and systemic pathophysiological disease processes in preparing coherent differential diagnoses and appropriate disease management plans. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Combine technical, observational and communication skills in developing and implementing a coherent general and/or targeted clinical examination of a patient. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Appraise clinical data obtained from a clinical examination and under guidance determine an appropriate course of action for a patient. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Collaborate with peers to design and implement simple methodology for a clinical study, and to collect and collate data. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Apply discipline-specific knowledge, professional behaviour, critical reflection on interprofessional learning, and awareness of social and cultural diversity to inform key aspects of the practitioner-patient interaction in personal and collaborative practice | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO6 | Identify areas and associated strategies of professional development to become a culturally safe practitioner for Indigenous patients. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Team-based learning | 10 individual readiness assurance tests and team readiness assurance tests | 15% |
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| Assessment 2: Individual ethics quiz and group ethics application | Individual online ethics quiz | 15% |
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| Assessment 3: Clinical consultation assessment | 30% |
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| Assessment 4: Examination | 90 minutes | 15% |
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| Assessment 5: Reflection on interprofessional education experience | 1200 word written report | 10% |
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| Assessment 6: Quality Use of Medicines and Safe and Efficient Patient-centred care | 80 minutes in-person written closed book assessment | 15% |
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The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Hurdle requirements
- Successful completion of Professionalism and Placement (P&P) requirements, as defined in the Optometry P&P guide
- Successful completion of a personal learning plan an portfolio of evidence covering clinical skills development and problem-solving readiness for the residential placement program
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for HMO701 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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Unit fee information
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