Orthoptics @ Usyd (1 Viewer)

[Jezzabelle]

Hey!
I really really want to do a health science at unisyd, and although occupational Therapy is my first pref. I also am interested in the sound of this course but couldnt find much when i searched the forums.

Does anyone know anything about this course, wat you do, wat career you have? or know someone who's done the course?

ultimately i want to do grad med at usyd, but i would like to do a health science and practice it for a few years before applying for grad med

can anyone help me out here?

 

[em_87]

My bestie is about to start her 2nd yr studying orthopitcs at USYD.. its like eye therapy, a bit different from optometry, but it focuses on rehabilitating the eye aftr stresses and stuff like that. Correct me if i'm wrong!!!

She is really enjoying the course!

Hope that helped!!!

 

[iyamahobbit]

Hi,
I was considering health sciences for a while, though i didn't actually consider orthopedics. I did consider speech pathology... but whether or not any info relating to that course would be uesful to you, i don't really know.

But if you want more info, you could try ausmedstudent.com/forum - the ppl there might be able to help you more

 

[em_87]

Do you mean orthoptics or orthipedics???? They're 2 different things...

 

[iyamahobbit]

Neither, i meant occ therapy (oops)
Not that it's significant tho, given that i didn't consider it.

However, i was thinking of optometry... what's the difference, tho, and why is the cutoff so much lower than orthipedics? I'm guessing it's not just because of the diff unis, but what are the diffs in career paths between the twO? Both sound purty interesting, anyway

 

[em_87]

From what i've gathered, orthoptics isn't as popular as optometry (hence the lower UAI)... plus theres the differences in qualifications- orthoptics is pretty limited in what u can do... with optometry, there are more fields that you can specialise in...

I'm not entirely sure..... someone else jump in here if you know something!!!!!

 

[Jezzabelle]

thanks for all your help so far

 

[em_87]

Don't mind at all- another thing... Orthoptics seems like a pretty easy course to get into- my bestie was about 2 points below the cutoff but she still got in because she had spoken to someone about it and explained how enthusiastic she was to get into the course...

 

[hatty]

yeah, i was amazed to see how low the UAI cutoff was for a course that looks really hard.

 

[Jezzabelle]

I went to the Usyd open day today, the staff and lecturers were heaps informative and approachable.

Orthoptic professionals actually have more qualifications then optometrists!!! The only thing they cant do is prescribe glasses(ie. work in a retail setting) in NSW, but they can in VIC.

hmmm i really wanna do it now

.. i mean, no i dont, its crap, if you were thinking about putting it down, forget it, waste of time and money

 

[Katie123]

i like your attempt at correcting yourself there. And yes the health science people were very nice today