General Optometry III

At the end of OPT 407 (General Optometry III) course, the students should be able to: 1. describe the principle, procedure, recording, and significance of findings of the different types of clinical visual acuity assessment methods; 2. describe the principle, procedure, recording, and significance of findings of cover test; version test; vergence test; fusion test; and near point of convergence test; 3. describe the principle/theory, procedure, recording, and significance of findings in keratometry and retinoscopy (static and dynamic); 4. describe the principle and steps involved in subjective refraction (distance and near); measurement of amplitude of accommodation; determination of near addition; and photometry; 5. state the principle and steps involved in graphical analysis; 6. describe the principle and steps involved in Von-Graefe phoria assessment; prism vergence tests; monocular and binocular balancing; fogging; fan-dial test; and monocular cross cylinder test; and 7. state the principle and steps involved in disparometry and polaroid tests.

The optometric examination: visual acuities, cover testing, test of versions and vergences, near point of convergence, fusion test and keratometry. Techniques of photometry Von Graefe phoria testing and prism vergence testing. Static and dynamic retinoscopy subjective sight testing, fogging, fan-dial, monocular cross cylinder, monocular and binocular balancing. Methods of measuring amplitude of accommodation and determining the near addition.