The first condition is that in 2014 the School of Medicine at Deakin (under whose auspices the optometry course is conducted) is required to submit a comprehensive progress report and undergo another site visit by the assessment team.The next 40 conditions all commence with the wording “The 2013 Annual Report must include ?”.To make the list readable, Insight has deleted that phrase and commenced each requirent with the first word of what is actually required:
2. Details on the status of strategic planning.
3. Details of formalised agreents with external partners in the provision of clinical training through practice placents.
4. An online of the funding model together with evidence of ongoing financial sustainability that will ensure staffing levels to meet the curriculum development and delivery needs including the external clinical placents program.
5. Details of contingency plans for any shortfalls in funding.
6. Details of contingency plans for any failure of the external clinical placents program to meet the clinical training needs of students.
7. An update on the input of the Optometry Advisory Board in strategic planning and quality control.
8. Provide details of educational goals specifically addressing the goal of therapeutic preparedness.
9. Include outcomes of discussions with external lecturers from Year 1 subjects on future program development.
10. Outline the reporting lines for therapeutic education (didactic and clinical).
11. An update on the role of the Optometry Teaching and Learning Committee.
12. An outline how ergent topics will be identified and incorporated in all aspects of the program including Residential Clinical Placents.
13. Comment on the preparedness of students in the topic of research methods.
14. Full details of all year 3 subjects.
15. A report on progress of changing the advanced standing policy.
16. Details of how Deakin is monitoring the performance of year 12 students with no science knowledge in the program.
17. Up-to-date admission statistics on the number of advanced standing and credit for prior learning granted and number of international students. 18. Include details on the nature and extent of direct patient experience in the later stages of the program 1
19. Evidence that integrated learning works.
20. The detailed structure and content and integration with previous units of the professional practice based placents.
21. An updated statent and description of the balance between basic sciences, clinical sciences and business training in the program.
22. Details of teaching and learning strategies underpinning the clinical training with its phasis on external participation. This should include description of the learning methods and contact and non-contact hours for each clinical subject including those covered in Residential Clinical Placents.
23. Copies of signed agreents (contracts or morandums of understanding) with external partnership sites for all students requiring placents in 2014.
24. Signed agreents with health facilities (eg.Barwon Health).
25. Details of training and accreditation program for external supervisors. 26. Information on therapeutic training opportunities.
27. An update on the selection process of external partnership sites.
28. Contingency plans for meeting clinical training needs of students in the event of inadequate external partnership sites.
29. Planning details on meeting clinical training needs of students.
30. Details of student assessment strategies, including the nature, timing and location of those assessments.
31. Full details of the timing and nature (e.g. location, number of stations) of the objective structured clinical examination assessment process.
32. Details and examples of the assessment tools used during clinical placents including but not limited to the e-portfolio tool.
33. Full details on the success/failure rates of students in each subject to date and a description of mechanisms for rediation.
34. Details of current staff, including appointment level, teaching responsibility, qualifications, and ployment status (part-time/full-time; ongoing/casual).
35. Details of the staff responsible for covering various specialty areas of clinical optometry including functional disorders of vision, diseases of the eye, paediatric optometry, binocular vision, contact lens practice, geriatric optometry and rehabilitation of the partially sighted, and therapeutic practice.
36. Details of the planning status for any international student intake, and its impact on learning and teaching activities.
37. Details of statents to be included in promotional materials for prospective students about the level of assumed knowledge in the basic sciences.
38. Details of the support services and facilities to be provided for students when off campus including during extended periods such as when on their external clinical placents.
39. An update on student intake figures including the proportion of local, regional and international students and their mode of entry.
40. An update on the student-to-staff ratios for the school.
41. A review of strategies to minimise the disruptions to staff and students arising from the need to teach at multiple sites.
Conditions 42 to 51 all commence with the phrase “The 2014 Annual Report to OCANZ must ?”
42. Provide a detailed description of how an appropriate level of supporting physical resources including internet access will be provided during Residential Clinical Placents of extended duration.
43. Include an update on the role of the Optometry Teaching and Learning Committee.
44. Full details of the work required in year 4.
45. Include up-to-date admission statistics on the number of advanced standing and credit for prior learning granted and number of international students.
46. Include details on the nature and extent of direct patient experience in the later stages of the program.
47. Include evidence that integrated learning continues to work.
48. Provide the detailed structure and content and integration with previous units of the professional practice based placents.
49. Include details of current staff, including appointment level, teaching responsibility, qualifications, and ployment status (part-time/full-time; ongoing/casual).
50. Provide an update on student intake figures including the proportion of local, regional and international students and their mode of entry.
51. Provide an update on the student-to-staff ratios for the school.
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