Binocular Vision Course

Innovator: Liat Gantz, https://www.linkedin.com/in/liat-gantz-b14299/

Organisation: Dept. of Optometry, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem

Setting of the practice: hybrid 

Description of the practice:

I teach a course in Binocular Vision to second year Optometry Students. The learning outcomes include treating patients with binocular vision disorders using Evidence Based Practice and renewing clinical competencies as innovations arise. Students are divided into small groups and given clinical cases and have to find evidence in the literature supporting their differential diagnosis. Further, students are tasked with locating a case report in the scientific literature, and applying clinical  methods taught in the course to the case presented. When I go to conferences I collect (with permission) posters of research related to binocular vision. Students are tasked with selecting one poster and writing a short 2-3 sentence summary, as well as to critically assess the posters. Student engagement is achieved by student response systems such as Kahoot and Socrative to review the topics taught. Moodle online quizzes for formative assessment are performed throughout the semester. Some topics are taught via short asynchronous lectures and the class time is used for flipped classroom: students apply principles from the asynchronous lecture in solving clinical cases. I provide coaching and support but not the answers. Another innovative practice is having students run experiments during the class to demonstrate the topics learned.