HMO704 - Community Optometry 2
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waurn Ponds (Geelong)^ |
| Credit point(s): | 4 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.500 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in D302, H710 |
| Prerequisite: | HMO703 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 600 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | The equivalent of four days per week (approx. 8 work hours per day) professional experience (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, online-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 online-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 online-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.
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.
Unit Fee Information
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