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Third-Year Summer Session Teaching Timeline

Week 1

  • Modified morning schedule – 0.5-1.5 hours introductory seminar.  Time to express expectations and goals.  Know your students, let them know you.
  • Review topics:
    • Expectations of your Module
    • Case Interpretations
    • Seminar Case History
    • Administrative details: how to notify your staff about broken equipment, where patient schedules are kept, where to put patient encounter forms when you already have a patient.
    • Clinic Philosophies
      • The No Show Patient
      • Daily Cases
      • The 5-Minute Health Burn Out
      • Check In, Not Out
      • Module assistant/Junior TA (if applicable)
    • Get Through the Exam – Whatever It Takes!

Week 2

  • Review topics:
    • Demos (if applicable)
    • Input in terms of the appearance of examination room (orerliness, first impressions and ease of accessibility to equipment
    • Give tips regarding efficiency
  • Seminar Topic: Examination of the child, teen, geriatric (the non-22 year old Cal student)
  • No Previous Neutralization until refraction completed
  • No Previous Charts until refraction completed
  • After Clinic Patient Cases

Week 3

  • Seminar Topic: Common reasons for not seeing 20/20
  • No Previous Neutralization until refraction completed
  • No Previous Charts until refraction completed
  • After Clinic Patient Cases

Week 4

  • Seminar Topic: Contact lenses in primary care
  • No Previous Neutralization until refraction completed
  • No Previous Records until refraction completed
  • No data entry until dilation
  • Technique for the Day: Alternate Tonometry Techniques
  • After Clinic Patient Cases

Week 5

  • Seminar Topic: Binocular vision in primary care
  • Instructor Observation of Tonometry & Angles
  • Records are Returned
  • Student has Neutralization Available
  • No data entry until dilation
  • After Clinic Patient Cases
  • Mid-Summer instructor evaluations by clinicians

Week 6

  • Student Designed Exam:
    • Return of Charts
    • Neutralization
    • Retinoscopy
  • Seminar: Common antibiotics and glaucoma medications
  • After Clinic Patient Cases
  • Mid-Summer clinician evaluations by instructors

Week 7

  • Student Designed Exam
  • Seminar:Posterior segment disease and common findings
  • After Clinic Patient Cases

Week 8

  • Seminar:  Common systemic diseases (HTN, Diabetes, depression, etc.)
    • Common systemic medications
  • After Clinic Patient Cases

Week 9

  • Seminar: Anterior segment disease
  • After Clinic Patient Cases
  • Instructor evaluations by clinicians

Week 10

  • Seminar:  Open
  • After Clinic Patient Cases
  • Clinician evaluations by instructors

Week 11

  • Seminar:  Open
  • End of Summer Review

Week 12

  • Third Year Clinicians released for Summer Break
  • Interim Clinic for Third Years and available Fourth years to sign up for credit days