Advanced Primary Care Optometry PG (10328.2)

This unit facilitates the transition from student to entry-level optometrist. Topics addressed include; structuring the routine optometric examination in a clinical setting, diagnosis and management of disorders of the visual system, case analysis, cultural competency, communication skills, vision screening, and visual standards. This unit culminates in students examining and managing clients under supervision.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Sequence and perform the eye and vision patient examination into an efficient and accurate clinical routine with appropriate case analysis and management including therapeutic and optical prescribing;
2. Communicate effectively with the patient, and relevant health professionals, using appropriate person-centred modes of communication to elicit information, accurately record and share patient history and findings for diagnosis and management;
3. Evaluate the underlying design principles of the visual environment, and the external factors that affect comfort, safety and performance of everyday tasks; and counsel patients about their suitability for occupational or other tasks;
4. Apply ethical and culturally safe behaviour in personal and professional contexts and explain the concepts of error and violation in health care, using quality and safety improvement processes to analyse and prevent adverse events in healthcare; and
5. Assess parameters for, and the fitting of, soft contact lenses (spherical, toric, multifocal), demonstrating handling and infection control, appropriate clinical reasoning and patient management.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - apply their knowledge to working with Indigenous Australians in socially just ways
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - communicate and engage with Indigenous Australians in ethical and culturally respectful ways
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

Must be enrolled in the Master of Optometry, 374JA.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.