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Ophthalmic lens manufacture; Lens surfacing, polishing and glazing techniques; Grinding of prismatic and cylindrical lenses. Edging, insertion of lenses into frames. Front bench spectacle works and verification; patient fitting; ophthalmic frames, facial measurement and selection based on frame sizes. Format making; marking and placement of optical centres; bifocals and multifocal segments. Spectacle adjustments and repairs. Manufacture of contact lenses and ocular prosthesis. Laboratory sessions are included.

Ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic frames. Posting to optical dispensing and frame display unit to handle patients referred for spectacle dispensing. Patients’ facial measurement and frame sizes; frame selection and patients’ styling. Placement/positioning of optical centres, bifocals and multifocal segments. Ophthalmic laboratory job order writing and billing; Ordering of the prescription; front bench dispensing and verification of orders received; patients’ fitting and adjustment of frames and minor repairs. Emergency frame and/or lens repair. Laboratory work is included.

Porphyrin, causes, symptoms and laboratory investigation of porphyrinaemia, porphyria and Porphyrinuria, Haemoglobin, synthesis, function. Glycosylated haemoglobins. Abnormal haemoglobins and haemoglobinopathies, Liver function Tests. Mechanism of Enzyme action and kinetics: Clinical Enzymology; Isoenzymes in medicine, Coenzymes and Vitamins. Definition, causes, consequences and investigation of some inborn errors of metabolism; Phenylketonuria, galactosaemia fructose intolerance, Albinism, aminoaciduria, Endocrine glands and functions; the hypothalamus, the pituitary, the parathyroid, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, the gonads and reproductive endocrinology. Foeto-placental function. Calcium and bone metabolism. Pancreatic function tests. Basic neurochemistry, CSF – normal composition and changes in disease.

Analytical Techniques. Birth of a new method, devising new techniques, biological trials and tests for acceptability. Solid/dry phase chemistry, dipstick technology, thin film technology. Immobilised enzymes. Analytical techniques employed in qualitative and quantitative determination of (a) Enzymes: phosphatases, transaminases, dehydrogenases, Kinases (b) Hormones: catecholamines and metabolites peptide and steroid hormones (c) Proteins: total proteins albumin and globulin, specific proteins (d) Lipids: cholesterol, triglycerides, glycerol, fatty acids and lipoproteins. (e) Trace elements – Fe, Cu Zn, Mg, Selenium (f) non-protein nitrogen – Urea, creatinine, creatine, uric acid, amino acids and ammonia Urinalysis; determination of urine specific gravity, osmolarity; qualitative tests for protein, glucose. and reducing substances, Ketone bodies, bilirubin urobilinogen and blood. Haemoglobin and haemoglobin derivatives in urine. Spectroscopy of haemoglobin and its derivatives in blood and urine.

Professionalism in audiology. Audiological assessment-paediatric, adults and the elderly/aged. Battery of tests in audiology. Audiological Diagnosis. Referrals in audiology. Audiological treatment/(re)habilitation. Audiology clinic administrative set up.

Essential clinical procedures in Speech-Language Therapy. Knowledge and skills involved in clinical assessment, treatment and preventive interventions. Importance of acquisition of clinical reasoning, decision-making skills, treatment and preventive interventions. Processes of acquiring clinical reasoning, decision-making, treatment and preventive interventions. Factors determining the processe and use of reasoning and decisions made in practical or clinical settings. Development and use of evidence-based principles in clinical Speech-Language practice. Stage II (400 Level: Professional Year II)

Nursing Charts: Methods of taking/recording patient’s temperature, pulse, respiration: BP. Bed making: Prevention of bedsores: General skin care: Sterile dressing/bandaging, wound management, Nursing procedures in the management of surgical patients, Nursing procedures in ICU, management of ICU patients, Lifting techniques – lifting of patients: Intramuscular/Intravenous drug administration. Injection: Chemotherapy/Medication procedure on the wards, palliative care nursing: Nurse – Therapist relationship: Practical/Clinical Sessions.

Pathology of diseases. Cellular basis of disease. Inflammation and healing. Immune mechanism, physical agents in injury and disease, drug and chemical injury, radiation injury, atrophy, hypertrophy, degeneration, oedema, thrombosis, infarction, bacterial and viral disease, fungal infections, tumours, cancers and inherited disease.

Clinical exposure and hands on training for 15 hours a week based on based on lectures taught in RAD 544, RAD 581 and RAD 551.

Clinical posting at designated hospitals 12 hours per week 2 days’ release.