Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for orthoptists. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Examine patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Perform diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Provide nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, to treat conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Develop nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Provide instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Pick an occupational task, then outline a real example. This is practice, not a prediction of an employer’s questions.
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Evaluate, diagnose, or treat disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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