Improving optometry student interpersonal skills through online patient, clinician and student evaluation and feedback.

Clinical Relevance: Interpersonal skills are crucial for successful clinician-patient interactions. To prepare future optometrists for clinical practice, pedagogical evaluation is important to support the implementation of new strategies for teaching and evaluating interpersonal skills.

Background: Optometry students largely develop their interpersonal skills through in-person patient interactions.

A digital resource to assess clinical competency.

Background: Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are integral to clinical competency-based assessment in health care disciplines. Traditional paper-based OSCEs require considerable administration time and students typically receive an assessment outcome with minimal feedback. We developed and implemented an iPad-based OSCE assessment system in optometry that delivered timely and specific e-feedback.

Use of an automated feedback application to improve communication skills.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Effective communication skills are a professional competency, yet are often overlooked during training.

Low vision perspectives on glaucoma.

INTRODUCTION: Glaucoma is one of the major causes of visual impairment, especially in the older population. The aim of this paper is to examine the demographics of patients with glaucoma-induced visual impairment. METHOD: Visual rehabilitation information was analysed for 590 visually impaired patients attending the multi-disciplinary low vision clinic at Kooyong in Melbourne.