Unit Code: PEC801

Unit Name: Advanced Eye Care

Description: Advanced Eye Care aims to provide students with values, attitudes, knowledge and skills in eye care that will enable them to provide effective and comprehensive eye care services. This effectiveness will be evaluated with respect to the whole person, thus emphasizing not only academic outcomes, but also outcomes of patient centered, holistic and culturally sensitive eye care. Such an approach to eye care provision will likely more effectively reduce the burden of blindness in the Pacific region. The course is a 38 week course composing of four components. The components will be horizontally integrated throughout the year.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, the students will be able to : 1. Develop ability to critically assess anterior segment of eye and adnexa executing an appropriate plan as required. 2. Develop ability to critically assess posterior segment of eye and ocular trauma executing an appropriate plan as required. 3. Evaluate diabetes risk factors and diabetic retinopathy to plan grading and management of diabetic retinopathy with understanding of treatment options and screening programmes. 4. Structure clinic, quality and people management to support a DR clinic to function competently. 5. Develop the understanding of refractive errors to perform objective and subjective refraction and prescribe appropriate glasses. 6. Critically identify patient refractive problems to perform a comprehensive refraction that suits special refractive population needs. 7. Organize and manage patient examinations, make diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment in outpatients’ clinic. 8. Organize and manage patient examinations, make diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment in refraction clinic. 9. Organize and manage patient examinations, make diagnosis and prescribe appropriate treatment in diabetes eye clinic. 10. Formulate needs assessment plans to design projects and advocacy plans to influence community eye care, outreaches and screenings. 11. Design behaviour change communication tools and health promotion programmes that correlate to health beliefs of population.

Prerequisite: Minimum Entry Requirement.

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 120

Offered In: Semester 1,2