Siow Ying Jocelyn Chua

• Awarded: Excellence in Teaching Award in 2023
• Awarded: Empowering Future Optometrist: A Visionary Approach to Community Health in 2024
• Awarded: Transformation in Optometry education: E-pre practical for Enhanced Learning & Efficiency in 2024

• Developed course materials and supported student learning in various modules such as:

. Clinical Practice – A final year module, case-based learning tutorials for clinical modules

· Clinical Optometry 2 – Retinoscopy, Subjective Refraction, Near addition, Colour vision tests

· Clinical Optometry 3 – Slit Lamp examination, Ophthalmoscopy, History Taking

· Clinical Optometry 4 – Visual Field Analysis, Fundus Examinations: Optical Coherence Tomographer, Fundus Imaging

· Ocular Disease 1 – Common Ocular Conditions: Glaucoma, Cataract, Diabetic Retinopathy, Dry Eyes etc

· Ocular Disease 2 – Ocular Conditions: Colobomas, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Retinoblastoma, Retinopathy of Prematurity

· Clinical Supervision – Supervising Year 2 and Year 3 students in the SP Optometry Centre; overseeing adult and pediatric eye examinations, binocular vision assessments, diagnostic imaging and analysis, and contact lens fitting (soft lenses and rigid gas permeable lenses).

· Ocular Pharmacology – Drugs for Ocular conditions

· Education, Career & Guidance for Optometry Students

• Curated self directed learning materials for flipped classroom activities, and in class case based learning for clinical modules.
• Speaker for various CET events (for external optometrist and opticians CPE points), collaborating with NUHS, HOYA and Topcon.
• Leader for SP DOPT outreach events: vision screenings and collaborative efforts: have lead a total of 26 events since 2023. This events have allowed me to teach students the importance of primary eye care in Singapore, and taught students the importance of communication and the application of clinical hands on skills that cannot be taught in a classroom!
• SP DOPT Alumni Rep: Organized a DOPT homecoming event to keep track of how our DOPT graduates are doing upon graduations and gather feedback on how we can continue to improve our pedagogy methods.
• External coordinator for student's clinical attachment for observations to external clinics/hospitals.
• Trainer for SP Opticianry course.
• DOPT Lead for student's Freshmen's Orientation Programme
• DOPT student chapters advisor: planning of events such as bonding day
• Organiser for white coat ceremony/scrubs ceremony
• Working towards energy saving + sustainable living, leading students to an upcycling workshop to recycle contact lens blisters

• Worked effectively in fast-paced clinical setting.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Assist the ophthalmologists with running various eye examinations such as refraction, visual fields, fundus imaging, refractive surgeries suitabilities