Master of Clinical Optometry

Please note: There will be no intakes for the Master of Clinical Optometry in 2021.

The Master of Clinical Optometry is the University of Melbourne's premier course for established optometrists seeking to develop a stronger practice and advance their careers.

Via a range of robust and challenging elective subjects, this course offers you the opportunity to develop your professional knowledge via an entirely online learning experience. You will gain specialist knowledge in areas including anterior eye disease, paediatric patients, contact lens patients, and glaucoma and retinal disease.

As a student, you will:

• Advance your clinical skills and apply evidence-based knowledge directly to your current practice
• Join a flexible and interactive learning community
• Be in direct contact with world-leading optometry academics and researchers.

Designed to be compatible with the Continuing Professional Development requirements of the Optometry Board of Australia, the Master of Clinical Optometry is the only fully online course in Australia that allows qualified optometrists to gain continuing CPD points while building towards a masters degree.

Developed by leaders in the field, the Master of Clinical Optometry is an in-depth and challenging course designed to significantly advance your clinical skills in your chosen fields of specialisation.

You will re-examine the basic sciences of clinical optometry in the context of the latest evidence, as well as updating your knowledge and skills with an emphasis on understanding and managing clinical problems.

Specifically designed for off-campus study using e-learning applications, this course also allows you to complete and apply learning tasks in your own practice.

On completion of this course the students will have:

• Advanced knowledge and skills in their selected fields of clinical optometry.
• A detailed knowledge in the use and application of specific advanced diagnostic techniques and/or instrumentation
• An advanced ability to evaluate and synthesise research from the scientific and clinical literature
• An appreciation of the value of, and the ability to achieve, collaboration with other healthcare professionals as an effective means to aid clinical problem-solving
• The capacity to interpret and integrate information from a variety of sources (such as patient presentation details, advanced diagnostic techniques, scientific, clinical and technical literature, and other healthcare professionals) in the development of the most appropriate patient management
• The ability and initiative to offer enhanced clinical services based on their in-depth study in selected fields of clinical optometry
• Have advanced their clinical skills and developed a flexibility of outlook such that they are better able to respond to future paradigm shifts in the scope of optometric management.

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.