YO Bootcamp: From Pupil to Practitioner
Date: 3/02/2019
Venue: Novotel Sydney Darling Square 17 Little Pier Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Provider: Young Optometrists
Contact: Abdul Hamidi, [E] y.optoms@gmail.com, [P] 0431384878
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of making yourself known to local GPs and pharmacists
- Importance of shared care and collaboration for well-being of your patients
- How to write letters to GPs and explain what investigations are required
- To appreciate the various collaborative care relationships that may exist between optometrists and other health care providers in Australia.
- To understand the utility and limitations of different referral pathways that may be offered to optometric patients
- To understand the patient’s rights and practitioner’s responsibilities in the context of initiating a referral
- To gain insight into how to effectively develop rapport with patients inside and outside the consultation room
- To understand how to communicate to young children particularly during testing
- To understand how to make the consultation room child friendly
- Be able to accurately recognise and defuse an unhappy or angry patient
- To understand the red herrings of a problem patient
- To learn the most common types of complaints patients have with a prescription
- To learn the conditions where therapeutic prescription is necessary and the steps involved in writing a therapeutic prescription.
- Understand the difference between a PBS and non-PBS prescription.
- To be able to identify when an authority prescription is required and learn how to obtain one. To identify the streamlined codes available for optometrists to use.
- Describe minimum components of the contact lens related case history
- Identify the clinical procedures used in practice that may best guide contact lens fitting
- Understand the value of managing patient expectations in contact lens consultations
- Know the most appropriate Medicare item number for various clinical scenarios
- Understand the differences between a Private, Bulk-billed, DVA and Aviation eye examination.
- To understand and learn from common legal pitfalls optometrists have fallen into such as poor record keeping and missed ocular health diagnoses.
- To understand the of a patient and optometrist in the consultation room. Discussing common complications such as driving standards and children parents or guardians not present.
- To learn how the Australian Tax system works for Optometry
- To be able to appropriately manage bills and finances
- To understand what qualifies as a tax-deductible item
- To become more confident in performing a comprehensive eye examination under time constraints
- To determine the necessary tests for each consultation
Max points awarded: 14.00
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Making yourself known in the health-care community |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Referral Pathways |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Developing Rapport with Children |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Common complaints and how to manage them |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| How to write a Therapeutic Prescription |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| Yes |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Contact lens fitting 101 |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Understanding Medicare Item Numbers |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Legal issues for Optometrists |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Finance, Budgetting and Taxes |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Non Clinical |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 0.50 |
| Name |
|---|
| Beating the clock in the consulting room |
| Activity Type |
|---|
| Face to Face with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
|---|
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
|---|
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|
| 1.50 |
| Name | Activity Type | Therapeutic? | Manufacturer/
Supplier? | Points for attending &
Passing Assessment |
|---|
| Making yourself known in the health-care community | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Referral Pathways | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Developing Rapport with Children | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Common complaints and how to manage them | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| How to write a Therapeutic Prescription | Face to Face with Assessment | Yes | No | 1.50 |
| Contact lens fitting 101 | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Understanding Medicare Item Numbers | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Legal issues for Optometrists | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |
| Finance, Budgetting and Taxes | Non Clinical | No | No | 0.50 |
| Beating the clock in the consulting room | Face to Face with Assessment | No | No | 1.50 |