This topic has three areas of focus: low vision, occupational optometry, business aspects of optometry and research project.
The low vision teaching covers the following content areas:
The occupational optometry teaching covers the following content areas:
As part of the occupational optometry intensive students will break into groups and visit varied workplaces and perform assessments.
This topic builds on the fundamental optometry knowledge and skills students have acquired in preceding semesters. Coupled with continued clinical training, this topic enables the building of advanced skills and knowledge in the areas of low vision, and occupational optometry. This will empower students to engage broadly in low vision assessment and management including in multi-disciplinary care. Students will study occupational optometry and learn how to plan, organise occupational health and safety assessments of workplaces and write relevant reports. In the latter two intensives of the semester, students will undertake further group work on their research project finalising their datasets and drafting manuscripts for journal submission. An intensive covering therapeutic management of ocular disease.
Timetable details for 2021 are no longer published.