HMO704 - Community Optometry 2
Unit details
| Year: | 2022 unit information |
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| Important Update: | Unit delivery will be in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. We continue to tailor learning experiences for each unit to achieve the best possible mix of online and on-campus activities that successfully blend our approaches to learning, working and research. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Last updated: 4 March 2022 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)^ |
| Credit point(s): | 4 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.500 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Heather Connor and Amanda Edgar |
| Cohort rule: | Must be enrolled in D302 Bachelor of Vision Science/Master of Optometry or H710 Master of Optometry |
| Prerequisite: | HMO703 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 600 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | The equivalent of four days per week (approx. 8 work hours per day) placement, in community settings (approximately 11 weeks, some of which fall outside of trimester time). Approximately 8 hours per week (the equivalent of 1 day), across 10 within-trimester weeks, undertaking a structured, Cloud-delivered program. This online program will involve engaging with specified resources, consisting of an online curriculum and twice-weekly webinar participation. Approximately 5 days (of 8 hours each, distributed across the two weeks constituting the final week of trimester and the study period) of structured consolidation of learning. |
Note:^Students enrol at Waurn Ponds (Geelong) and undertake clinical placements in metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria | |
Content
In this unit students will continue to undertake clinical placements in extended community optometry settings in metropolitan, rural and regional Victoria for the equivalent of four days per week. Their learning will be supported by access to Cloud-accessible learning materials and an online logbook enabling them to map their clinical development progress. One further day per week will be devoted to completion of a Cloud-delivered learning program, self-directed private study and webinar participation. Students will continue to extend their previous learning of the competencies for optometry practice defined by the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand (OCANZ) to graduate level through application in the community optometry settings. Students will return to campus in the final two weeks of trimester, for face-to-face teaching and clinical training sessions, in order to consolidate their skills prior to their final assessments. There will be particular attention to assessment and prescribing of pharmacological interventions for common conditions in optometry. The experience gained will enable students to analyse, reflect upon and consolidate their understanding of legal and ethical issues; professional, management and business development; and the social, public and population health context of optometry practice.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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| ULO1 | Design and conduct an optometric examination demonstrating the level of competency necessary for independent practice and using an appropriate, comprehensive range of examination sub-skills as indicated by the patient presentation. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Independently evaluate clinical information, formulating a diagnosis from a series of viable differentials, creating an appropriate management plan and communicating outcomes and appropriate advice to patients presenting for optometric care. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO3 | Demonstrate comprehensive patient evaluation, examination and management skills, consistent with the principles of evidence-based practice and across a wide-range of commonly encountered clinical situations and scenarios. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Select, research and interpret interesting case presentations, communicating the findings to colleagues, in an evidence-based fashion, through verbal, electronic and written media. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO5 | Model professional behaviour, across all domains of professionalism, toward patients, colleagues and peers, and display the capacity for reflective practice, in all clinical and work-related situations. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO6 | Analyse patient visual requirements, recommend appropriate optical and non-optical solutions, and order and dispense these solutions within the appropriate business and financial framework. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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| Assessment 1: Supervisor assessment of clinical performance | Performance on placement | 15% |
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| Assessment 2: Clinical case communication tasks | 1 case report: 2000 words and 1 verbal clinical conundrum presentation | Case report: 15% |
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| Assessment 3: Weekly online case-based assessment | Weekly | 20% |
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| Assessment 4: Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) | End of trimester examination | 25% |
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| Assessment 5: Personal Learning Plan, Deakin staff assessment of logbook entries and Deakin staff assessment of professional identity | 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 requirement
- Attendance on all scheduled clinical residential placement days
- Completion of on-line logbook entries for each clinical interaction
- Passing 7 out of 10 OSCE stations and achieving an overall pass mark for the OSCEs.
Learning Resource
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
Unit Fee Information
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