Handbook

Note that this description has been modified from previous handbook entries because 2019 is a ‘transition’ year into the new program. The Paediatrics component is replaced by the Contact lens component in 2019.

Description:  OPTM6421 will further develop the integration of student knowledge of the basic sciences with clinical competency in the areas of binocular vision, low vision and contact lenses.  Students will be introduced to the care and assessment of patients with strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, and/or low vision or severe visual impairment. Students will need to apply knowledge from earlier courses such as ocular disease, physiology and optics in order to prescribe visual aids which best alleviate the detrimental effects of visual deficits. The contact lens component will consist primarily of contact lens fitting practical classes. The course will be delivered using lectures, tutorials, practical classes and self-directed learning.

Brief Curriculum:  Binocular vision: amblyopia, comitant and noncomitant strabismus. Low vision – aids, current low vision aids, adaptive technology, the multidisciplinary mode of practice. Contact lenses: Contact lens fitting.