OPTO8003 Clinical Skills for Optometrists 2

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Overview

This topic builds on skills and continues the provision of the theoretical knowledge and practice of clinical skills for optometry. It will provide further knowledge and training of optometric procedures for the examination, diagnosis, treatment of visual and ocular conditions using current best-practice methodology, evidence based practice. Skills to be developed include keratometry and corneal imaging, gonioscopy, tonometry, pachymetry, near vision, binocular vision assessment, foreign body removal, epilation, contact lens handling and colour vision assessment. Reinforcement of skills will be provided including: case history, assessment of visual function, subjective and objective refraction, vertometry, ocular motility, exophthalmometry, pupillary responses, anterior and posterior segment examination, visual fields and posterior segment imaging.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

Provide students with the theory and practical skills of individual clinical techniques for assessing vision and ocular health
Ensure students will have a thorough understanding of an optometric consultation and the necessary communication skills required through observing and performing examinations in a clinical setting
Enable students to continue to learn how to synthesize clinical information in order to manage patient's visual anomalies
Provide students with a thorough understanding of the scope of clinical practice
Provide students with the skills to make the diagnosis of various visual, ocular and cranial conditions

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:

Obtain a case history and develop effective communication

Comprehensively test visual function

Comprehensively evaluate oculo-motor coordination and binocular vision

Detect and correct refractive errors with spectacles and contact lenses

Examine the health of the eye with specific optometric instruments and imaging equipment

Begin to synthesize clinical information obtained through examination and develop action plans to assess and rectify anomalies

Understand the vision science underpinning these clinical skills

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Clinical Skills for Optometrists 2

OPTO8003