Student access patterns for an online clinical skills procedural video library.

Clinical Relevance: Clinical skills training is essential in optometry curricula to develop core graduate entry competencies, including self-directed learning to facilitate life-long learning. Efficient and efficacious approaches are required to optimise student and educator time and resources.

Background: A video library of optometric clinical skills was created in 2012 to support self-directed student learning and face-to-face training.

Evaluating perceived technology self-efficacy and telehealth acceptance in optometry students.

Clinical Relevance: Constant technological improvements require practitioners to be open to adopting technologies such as telehealth for enhanced patient care. Understanding the barriers and facilitators of telehealth adoption will guide stakeholders in making decisions for safe and effective implementation of telehealth.

Background: Effective use of telehealth improves patient outcomes.

Learning professionalism using creativity and diversity concepts.

Clinical Relevance: Professionalism is a multidimensional sociocultural construct that is abstract, evolving and context-dependent in nature. This has made the teaching and assessment of professionalism in healthcare complex and challenging. A lack of professionalism can increase patient risk and litigation.

Clinician Awareness of Stickler Syndromes Among Australian Allied Health Care Professionals.

Purpose: Stickler Syndromes are multisystem collagenopathies affecting 1 in 7500-9000 individuals and are associated with craniofacial, ocular, auditory, and musculoskeletal complications. Prophylactic retinopexy treatment reduces the risk of retinal detachment, emphasising the need for early detection and multidisciplinary referral. This study evaluated knowledge and awareness of Stickler Syndromes among allied health professionals and their perceived needs for targeted education to improve multidisciplinary care.

Visual search in infantile nystagmus syndrome.

Clinical Relevance: Research on infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) and visual search is limited. Conducting this research could assist practitioners in understanding how INS affects the real-life visual activities of patients and aid in developing new clinical visual function assessments for INS.

Background: The aim of this work is to investigate how subjects with INS perform visual search tasks, and, particularly, to assess how INS subjects perform when targets are located at their null position or away from it, and when under additional cognitive demands.

Educational strategies in the health professions to mitigate cognitive and implicit bias impact on decision making: a scoping review.

Background: Cognitive and implicit biases negatively impact clinicians' decision-making capacity and can have devastating consequences for safe, effective, and equitable healthcare provision. Internationally, health care clinicians play a critical role in identifying and overcoming these biases. To be workforce ready, it is important that educators proactively prepare all pre-registration healthcare students for real world practice.

Integrating interprofessional electronic medical record teaching in preregistration healthcare degrees: A case study.

Background: Electronic medical record (EMR) adoption across healthcare necessitates a purposeful curriculum design to prepare graduates for the delivery of safe and effective patient care in digitally-enabled environments.

Objective: To describe the design and development of an Interprofessional Electronic Medical Record (iEMR) subject that introduces healthcare students to its utility in clinical settings.

Methods: A six-stage design-based educational research framework (Focus, Formulation, Contextualisation, Definition, Implementation, Evaluation) was used to instigate the iEMR design and development in nursing and five allied health graduate entry to practice (preregistration) degrees at an Australian university.

Perception of Coherent Motion in Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome.

Purpose: Research on infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) and motion perception is limited. We investigated how individuals with INS perform coherent motion tasks. Particularly, we assessed how the null position affects their performance.

The Equivalency of the Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope Simulator to Peer Practice: A Pilot Study.

Significance: Optometric educators are constantly looking for learning and teaching approaches to improve clinical skills training. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has made educators scrutinize the time allocated to face-to-face teaching and practice. Simulation learning is an option, but its use must first be evaluated against traditional learning methods.

Velocity Discrimination in Infantile Nystagmus Syndrome.

Purpose: Research on infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) and velocity discrimination is limited, and no research has examined velocity discrimination in subjects with INS at their null position and away from it. This study aims to investigate how individuals with INS perform, compared with controls, when carrying out velocity discrimination tasks. Particularly, the study aims to assess how the null position affects their performance.

Pilot Study: Thinking Outside the Square in Cultivating "Soft Skills"-Going beyond the Standard Optometric Curriculum.

Significance: No research in optometric education that uses Moore's concept of creativity and object-based learning to cultivate "soft skills" exists. The design and outcomes of this study will contribute to the body of optometric education, and future research will assess the applicability of these findings to other allied health disciplines.

Purpose: Optometrists, like all health care professionals, need to be proficient in soft skills such as effective communication and interpersonal skills.

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.