Course description
The programme is based in the School of Optometry and Vision Science, which has continued to pioneer high-quality new developments in optometric education, and it is recognised both nationally and internationally for the excellence of its courses, graduates and research.
What you will study
Distance learning lectures:
- Classification, terminology and clinical features
- Epidemiology and risk factors
- Examination of the anterior segment
- Pachymetry
- Tonometry
- Visual fields
- Examination of the optic nerve head and retinal nerve fibre layer
- Differential diagnosis
- Detecting changes in clinical status
- Patient information and support
- Guidelines and landmark studies
- Clinical governance
Practical workshops:
- Binocular indirect biomicroscopy and optic nerve head assessment
- Contact tonometry
- Pachymetry
- Van Herick and introduction to gonioscopy
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