OPB550 Diseases of the Eye 1
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| Unit code: | OPB550 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | (CSB520 or LSB475) and OPB452 |
| Corequisite(s): | OPB654 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,164 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,356 |
| International unit fee | $5,352 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | OPB550 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | (CSB520 or LSB475) and OPB452 |
| Co-requisite: | OPB654 |
| Coordinator: | Scott Read | sa.read@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Optometrists play a major role in the fight against eye disease. In conducting eye examinations, optometrists must also be adept at detecting systemic diseases that cause ocular signs and symptoms.
This unit will enhance your knowledge of eye diseases - a critical part of optometry studies and future practice. It provides you with knowledge of diseases and conditions influencing the anterior eye, including the diagnosis and management of conditions. Knowledge from this unit will be highly relevant to future units in the Master of Optometry (OP85) course involving clinical optometric practice and therapeutic management of eye disease.
This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse and interpret visual information from clinical diagnostic and imaging devices to detect and evaluate signs and symptoms of eye diseases and ocular conditions affecting the anterior eye
- Apply scientific knowledge and critical thinking to differentially diagnose anterior eye diseases and ocular conditions secondary to systemic conditions
- Develop management plans for anterior eye diseases and ocular conditions secondary to systemic conditions
Content
In OPB550, conditions of the eyelids, orbit, conjunctiva, cornea, anterior chamber, iris, pupil, ciliary body and crystalline lens will be discussed. These will encompass:
- Congenital anomalies
- Ocular degenerations and dystrophies
- Inflammations, infections and toxic conditions
- Trauma
- Tumors
- Systemic associations of eye diseases
This unit will provide the foundation knowledge of the presentations of eye disease for later discussion and clinical practice of optometry and therapeutic management of eye disease and contribute to you acquiring entry-level graduate competencies within the competency domain 1: Clinical Care Provider, and the key professional tasks that sit within this domain (Entry-Level Competency Standards for Optometry 2022).
Learning Approaches
You will have a series of online lectures and face to face interactive lectures presented each week. Interactive discussions, formulated around real world clinical case based presentations are used throughout the lectures to support and consolidate the presented material and your acquisition of critical thinking skills. Clinical signs and symptoms are discussed, and differential diagnosis of conditions emphasised. Clinical investigative and imaging techniques and digital technologies are outlined and how interpretation of digital clinical imaging data can inform your diagnoses is explored. Management options in optometric practice are also discussed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be provided opportunities for self-assessment of your understanding of the unit materials through the case-based examples within the interactive lectures, and through formative online revision quizzes provided each week. Feedback will be provided from the academic teaching team regarding the assessment in the unit, with opportunity for one on one feedback, and general discussion of the assessment outcomes in class and online.
Assessment
Overview
Satisfactory performance in each of the assessment items is a condition for passing this unit. This means that at least 50% must be obtained on the end of semester examination, and on the practical skills slide assessment for a passing grade to be awarded. The Faculty of Health Threshold Assessment Policy will apply where student performance in an assessment item is unsatisfactory.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Practical Skills Slide Assessment
Case based scenarios and data from clinical diagnostic and imaging devices will be used to assess your performance in the evaluation of signs, symptoms, differential diagnoses, and the formulation of diagnosis and management plans for presentations of anterior eye disease and ocular conditions related to systemic conditions. All questions will be based upon the presentation of slide images.
This is an authentic assessment because it involves evaluation of real-world clinical images and data, and formulating diagnoses and management/treatment plans for conditions commonly encountered in clinical optometry practice.
Threshold Assessment:
For professional accreditation, students must be able to analyse, interpret and integrate examination results and other information to determine the nature and aetiology of conditions or diseases, consistent with the Entry-Level Competency Standards for Optometry. To pass this unit students must show satisfactory performance on this assessment item which is a mark =>50%. Students will be eligible for one reattempt at the minimum pass level, only when their achieved mark is 40-49% for this assessment item. Students are advised to seek feedback on their performance from the unit coordinator prior to the reattempt. Students will not be eligible for a reattempt if their overall grade in the unit is a failing grade.
Assessment: End of Semester Theory Exam
End-of semester theory examination. This will include knowledge based questions and questions requiring the integration and synthesis of knowledge to solve clinically related case based problems in diseases of the eye. Half of the written examination consists of multiple choice questions. The other half of the exam are short answer questions.
Threshold Assessment:
For professional accreditation, students must be able to analyse, interpret and integrate examination results and other information to determine the nature and aetiology of conditions or diseases, consistent with the Entry-Level Competency Standards for Optometry. To pass this unit students must show satisfactory performance on this assessment item which is a mark =>50%. Students will be eligible for one reattempt at the minimum pass level, only when their achieved mark is 40-49% for this assessment item. Students are advised to seek feedback on their performance from the unit coordinator prior to the reattempt. Students will not be eligible for a reattempt if their overall grade in the unit is a failing grade.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The two recommended text books for the unit are:
1. Salmon JF. Kanski’s Clinical ophthalmology : a systematic approach, 9th Edition, Elsevier 2020
2. Bruce A, Loughnan M. Anterior Eye Disease and Therapeutics A-Z, 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2011
There are a number of copies of these books available in the library, and electronic versions of both of these text books are available through the QUT library website.
Resource Materials
Reference book(s)
Bruce, A. S., Loughnan, M. S., (2003). Anterior Eye Disease and Therapeutics A-Z Oxford; N.Y.: Butterworth- Heinemann.
Salmon, J. F., Kanski, J.J. (2020). Kanski's clinical ophthalmology : a systematic approach (9th ed.). Edinburgh : Elsevier
Spalton, D. J., Hitching, R. A., & Hunter, P. A. (1994). Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology (2nd ed.). London: Gower.
Yanoff, M., Duker, J.S. (Eds). 2018. Ophthalmology (5th Ed). Mosby-Elsevier
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Standards/Competencies
This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.
Entry-Level Competency Standards for Optometry 2014
1: Professional Responsibilities
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment
4: Diagnosis and Management
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment , End of Semester Theory Exam
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.OP45 Bachelor of Vision Science
- Apply scientific knowledge and core skills of vision science and optometry.
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment , End of Semester Theory Exam - Reflect and apply critical thinking, problem solving and analysis to generate optometric and vision science solutions in clinical and scientific settings.
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment - Employ effective communication technique/s using a range of oral, written and digital formats culturally and ethically responsive to the needs of diverse audiences and settings that meet professional standards.
Relates to: Practical Skills Slide Assessment