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OPT 312
1 Unit(s) (LH 15)
At the end of OPT 312 (General Optometry II) course, the students should be able to: 1. describe the procedure involved in carrying out ocular penlight examination, the recording of the findings, and clinical implication...
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Clinical techniques used to evaluate the optical properties of the eye; theory and measurement
of visual acuity and retinoscopy. An introduction to keratometry, ophthalmoscopy and external
examination techniques. Accommodation: Its measurement and relationship to convergence.
Ocular deviations: phorias, tropias, and an introduction to their measurement.
OPT 407
1 Unit(s) (LH 15)
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 assessm...
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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.
OPT 412
1 Unit(s) (LH 15)
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....
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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.
OPT 403
1 Unit(s) (PH 45)
At the end of OPT 403 (General Optometry Laboratory) course, the students should be able to: 1. describe the procedure involved in assessment of patient’s case history and then be able to carry out the procedure on selec...
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Techniques learnt in OPT 407 and general optometry courses are practised and developed
preparatory to examining patients.
OPT 313
1 Unit(s) (LH 15)
At the end of OPT 313 (General Pathology) course, students should be able to: 1. explain the concept of pathology and its subdivisions; 2. discuss the normal cell structure, the plasma coat, cytoplasm, and cell organelle...
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Introduction to pathology and its subdivisions. The normal cell; the plasma cell coat; cytoplasm
and its organelles; the nucleus. Fundamental pathological processes. Cellular adaptation: atrophy,
hypertrophy, hyperplasia, metaplasia, hypoplasia, dysplasia, agenesis, and aplasia. Anomalies of
cellular functions and human immunology. Cell injury and cell death: causes, cellular swelling,
cell necrosis and types, somatic death, signs of death, cadaveric changes, intracellular
accumulations, hyaline change, and cellular aging. Inflammation and Repair. Exudates. Healing
and repair. Fluid and hemodynamic derangements. Genetic disorders and systemic implications.
Infectious diseases. Disorders of organ systems.
OPT 324
1 Unit(s) (LH 15)
At the end of OPT 324 (General Pharmacology) course, students should be able to: 1. define pharmacology in its basic and simple form; 2. explain the meaning of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; 3. explain all the pr...
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General principles of pharmacology. Definition of basic concepts in pharmacology: pharmacy,
pharmacognosy, pharmacotherapeutics, toxicology and many others. Drug administration:
methods and absorption of drugs; distribution; biotransformation and excretion of drugs. Drug
receptor interaction; dose - response relationship. Fate of systemically administered drugs.
Autonomic nervous system pharmacology: principles and classification of autonomic drugs; Anti-
inflammatory drugs; Chemotheraphy agents. Action of drugs, factors influencing it. Compatibility
and incompatibility, tolerance, tachyphylaxis, potentiation, synergism, additive, antagonism and
many others.
PHY 101
2 Unit(s) (LH 30)
At the end of the course, student should be able to; 1. identify and deduce the physical quantities and their units; 2. differentiate between vectors and scalars; 3. describe and evaluate motion of systems on the basis o...
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Space and time. Units and dimension, Vectors and Scalars. Differentiation of vectors:
displacement, velocity and acceleration. Kinematics. Newton laws of motion (Inertial frames,
Impulse, force and action at a distance, momentum conservation). Relative motion. Application
of Newtonian mechanics. Equations of motion.Conservation principles in physics. Conservative
forces. Conservation of linear momentum. Kinetic energy and work. Potential energy. System of
particles. Centre of mass. Rotational motion:Torque, vector product, moment, rotation of
coordinate axes and angular momentum. Polar coordinates. Conservation of angular momentum.
Circular motion. Moments of inertia. gyroscopes and precession. Gravitation: Newton’s Law of
Gravitation. Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion. Gravitational Potential Energy. Escape velocity.
Satellites motion and orbits.
PHY 102
2 Unit(s) (LH 30)
At the end of this course, the student should be able to: 1. describe the electric field and potential, and related concepts, for stationary charges; 2. calculate electrostatic properties of simple charge distributions u...
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Forces in nature. Electrostatics; electric charge and its properties, methods of charging. Coulomb’s
law and superposition. electric field and potential. Gauss’s law. Capacitance. Electric dipoles.
Energy in electric fields. Conductors and insulators, current, voltage and resistance. Ohm’s law
and analysis of DC circuits. Magnetic fields. Lorentz force. Biot-Savart and Ampère’s laws.
magnetic dipoles. Dielectrics. Energy in magnetic fields. Electromotive force. Electromagnetic
induction. Self and mutual inductances. Faraday and Lenz’s laws. Step up and step-down
transformers: Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic oscillations and waves. AC voltages and
currents applied to inductors, capacitors, resistance, and combinations.
PHY 107
1 Unit(s) (PH 45)
At the end of the course, the student should be able to; 1. conduct measurements of some physical quantities; 2. make observations of events, collect and tabulate data; 3. identify and evaluate some common experimental e...
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This introductory course emphasises quantitative measurements. The treatment of measurement
errors, and graphical analysis. A variety of experimental techniques should be employed. The
experiments include studies of meters, the oscilloscope, mechanical systems, electrical and
mechanical resonant systems. Light. Heat. Viscosity and many others, covered in PHY 101 and
PHY 102. However, emphasis should be placed on the basic physical techniques for observation,
measurements, data collection, analysis and deduction.
PHY 108
1 Unit(s) (PH 45)
At the end of this course, the student should be able to: 1. conduct measurements of some physical quantities; 2. make observations of events, collect and tabulate data; 3. identify and evaluate some common experimental...
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This practical course is a continuation of PHY 107 and is intended to be taught during the second
semester of the 100 level to cover the practical aspect of the theoretical courses that have been
covered with emphasis on quantitative measurements. The treatment of measurement errors, and
graphical analysis. However, emphasis should be placed on the basic physical techniques for
observation, measurements, data collection, analysis and deduction.
200 Level