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INTERMEDIATE ORTHOPTIC CLINICAL PRACTICE

ORT5CLC

2020

Credit points: 30

Subject outline

This is one of three final year professional practicum subjects. Dependent on the placement, you will focus on different specialized areas of practice. Supervised clinical practice occurs for 20 days over 4 weeks across one or multiple placement sites where you will consolidate and build on basic clinical and patient-handling skills, and learn essential patient management strategies. At the end of the placement, it is expected that you will have developed broader clinical experience in the investigation and management of acute and chronic eye disease, strabismus and ocular motility disorders, and to management patients with visual or general disability. This subject will enable you to progress to the final Orthoptic Clinical Practicum subject. Attendance at professional placements will also contribute to meeting minimum requirements for workplace experience and professional accreditation.

School: Allied Health, Human Services & Sport (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 30

Subject Co-ordinator: Connie Koklanis

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: (ORT4OMR AND ORT4CLA AND ORT4INC AND ORT4EYS) OR (ORT5CLA AND ORT5OMT AND ORT5LVR)

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: Yes

Work-based learning: Yes

Self sourced or Uni sourced:
Uni Sourced

Entire subject or partial subject: Entire subject

Total hours/days required: 140 hours

Location of WBL activity (region): Flexible

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Practice with autonomy and accountability in specialized areas of professional practice.
02. Justify and interpret clinical information in a specialized area of practice to patients, their family and colleagues.
03. Analyse and synthesise complex clinical problems and develop appropriate management solutions.
04. Evaluate complex cases to formulate accurate diagnoses
05. Clearly communicate management plans based on best available evidence of ocular disorders.
06. Reflect on personal professional practice to support continuous improvement in patient outcomes.

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Week 15-27, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Connie Koklanis

Class requirements

Placement - Off SiteWeek: 15 - 23
One 20.00 days placement - off site per study period on weekdays during the day from week 15 to week 23 and delivered via face-to-face.
One 4-week (20 day) clinical block placement

WorkShopWeek: 25 - 27
Four 2.00 hours workshop other recurrence on weekdays during the day from week 25 to week 27 and delivered via face-to-face.
8-hours of workshops across the teaching period. Group 1: Weeks 23-26;Group 2: 27-30

Assessments

Assessment elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

Competency evaluation: Assessment of Student Orthoptic Practice (equiv to 6500 -words)Ungraded pass. A pass of all competencies is required to pass the subject to ensure students meet the Australian Orthoptic Board Competency Standards for Graduate Entry Orthoptists and accreditation requirements.

N/AN/AN/ANo70SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5, SILO6

One personal reflective task (2500 words equivalent)

N/AN/AN/ANo30SILO1, SILO6