We are Compentent!!!

It's all over! HAHAHAHOHOHO!

The feared Compentency Test is officially over! :D I hope i'll pass :)

CP3021/24
DOPT Clinic Competency Test
Let's have an introduction to this scary test. The clinic competency test is, in short, to test if we are competent as an Optometrist when we do graduate. It is a practical test and it comprises of 12 stations, whereby you get to spend only a short 10 min in each and have to complete COMPETENTLY all the different tasks inside. Most rooms have a clinician doing the assessment while you perform the testing.

The tasks ranges from those that we do everyday in clinic to those that we hardly ever perform, like Binocular Vision. Everything is tested. From what you say, to what you do, to the working distance to the lighting to the speed to the accuracy of your results. Accuracy is a killer. It is very very stringent and Thus, it is highly stressful.

And we haven't got to the main reason of this stress. The main reason is that, we don't get to graduate if we fail certain stations. And overall it's 30% for the module. To them, FAIL (certain core stations)= INCOMPETENT! = Retain one more year.

And it is actually very easy to fail. I think no one in the entire course (my batch) passed the 1st competency test (trial run) last sem. I think i failed 4-5 stations out of 10. This time round, who knows what will happen to the results. But I'm still optimistic. I doubt they'll fail all of us right? then we all stay back one more yr ar? Okay then! Then they'll only have a handful of graduates this yr!

This competency test is horrible. Some lose sleep over it, some can't eat properly (Haojin lah!), some cry- overly stressed. Thus today we shall celebrate the end of this. :) Leave the results to another day.

celebrate!

haha.. and i went to the test while running a temperature + flu. and i'm still pretty much sick now. :(