0604 Visual System Update (Stream 2) - 4 June 2024

Delivery: Webinar

This is a Stream 2 module and it’s designed for doctors that have already successfully completed the Stream 1 module and hold that accreditation. Stream 2 modules do not have any assessment requirements, they will help you improve your proficiency by updating your skills in applying the AMA4 Guides and/or other prescribed assessment methods.

Successful completion of the Stream 2 module will lead to awarding of one update to accreditation:

1. Visual System update

If you have not already successfully completed the Stream 1 module and you want to gain that accreditation, please go back to the homepage and enrol in Visual (Stream 1).

*Course cost includes GST.

*Participants need to bring their AMA4 Guide when they attend training.

Module information

This module covers the use of Chapter 9 of the Guides to evaluate permanent impairment of the visual system, including the eyes, ocular adnexa and visual pathways.

The module includes:

• The types of impairments that are evaluated for the purpose of assessment of the visual system using the Guides.
• The two distinct approaches that will be required to assess an overall impairment score of the visual system, and which depend on the types of visual testing performed in a particular case.
• The distinction between visual impairment, visual system impairment and impairment of the whole person.
• The types of test apparatus required to perform an assessment in accordance with the Guides.
• The approach to be taken to apportion an impairment score to account for a pre-existing visual impairment.