Certificate
This Specialist Certificate is a part-time course for established optometrists seeking to continue their professional development and build skills in the developmental, visual and educational issues relevant to paediatric optometry.
Offered by the Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences in the School of Health Sciences, this online course covers central issues in the field of paediatric optometry, with the aim of developing your capacity for effective management of paediatric patients, including co-management with other professionals involved in paediatric care.
In this online course, you will learn about disorders such as amblyopia, strabismus, ametropia, accommodative-vergence dysfunction and visual processing disorders.
You will also learn about childhood development and how this affects our evaluation of vision and its impact on learning, as well as the ocular and visual challenges seen in common childhood syndromes such as Down syndrome and cerebral palsy, including associated ocular diseases relevant to other special needs paediatric populations.
For optometrists in Australia and New Zealand, this Specialist Certificate easily satisfies your annual CPD point quota, as determined by the Optometry Board of Australia.
Successful completion of this subject provides 25 points of credit into the Master of Clinical Optometry.
Please note: Registration to practice in Australia is not granted on completion of this course.
It takes about 20 minutes to complete the form using the online application system. You can save your work in progress and complete the application at a later date.