Overview
This topic has three areas of focus: contact lens practice, paediatric and binocular vision and research.
The contact lens teaching covers the following content areas: contact lens fitting; examination procedures for contact lens patients; care and maintenance; the cornea in contact lens wear; contact lens related ocular complications; special contact … For more content click the Read More button below.
The binocular vision and paediatrics teaching covers the following content areas: diagnosis of a deviation of the visual axes; adaptations associated with deviated visual axes; accommodation and vergence disorders; childhood visual development and disorders; examining children; childhood development and learning; therapeutic intervention and management of disorders.
The research project crosses the three optometry topics in three semesters. Students are required to select a research project, write a grant proposal and submit ethical approval for the project.
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Aims
This topic builds on the fundamental optometry knowledge and skills students have acquired in preceding semesters. Coupled with the commencement of their clinical training, this topic enables the building of advanced skills and knowledge in the following areas: contact lens practice, binocular vision and paediatrics. This will empower students to engage broadly in contact lens practice, to manage clinically the spectrum of binocular vision disorders and to engage in paediatric care, including in multi-disciplinary care. Students will also learn how to plan, organise and commence a substantial research project.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Formulate an appropriate examination and management plan for a contact lens patient and select and recommend appropriate contact lens designs and parameters for a range of patient presentations
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Measure and interpret oculomotor and binocular function and status and recommend appropriate management plans and design and implement a vision therapy program for patients with amblyopia, strabismus and binocular vision disorders based on best available evidence
3.
Develop an examination plan to investigate visual information processing abilities
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Formulate and implement an examination plan suitable for a paediatric patient and effectively communicate with a paediatric patient and caregiver(s)
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Plan and organise a substantial research project
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Requisites information
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Assumed knowledge
Pharmacology. Content and clinical skills such as can be obtained in second, third and fourth year Optometry topics.