General Optometry IV

At the end of the OPT 412 (General Optometry IV) course, students should be able to: 1. discuss principles of effective case history; case analysis; graphical analysis; diagnosis and prognosis in patients’ management; 2. discuss procedure involved in clinical assessment of accommodation and convergence, and their clinical relationship; 3. define ocular deviations, and the procedure involved in their clinical measurements; 4. discuss the principle, procedure, recording, and clinical implications of findings as regard the different techniques/devices used in assessing intraocular pressure (tonometry); 5. discuss the principle, procedure, recording, and clinical implications of findings of slit-lamp biomicroscopy; direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy; gonioscopy; perimetry; and sphygmomanometry; 6. describe skills in lensometry / focimetry; and 7. discuss the principle, procedure, recording, and clinical implications of findings of the different colour vision test devices.

A continuation of OPT 407. The case history and its relationship to optometric examination; the integration of individual findings. Visual analysis, graphical analysis, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Introduction to specialised techniques such as tonometry, ophthalmoscopy, lensometry, biomicroscopy, stereoacuity testing, gonioscopy perimetry, colour vision testing and sphygmomanometry.