Handbook

Objectives: To provide an in-depth understanding of the management of anterior segment eye disease and the role of the optometrist in this process. Brief Curriculum: The scope of the course includes diseases of the lids and lacrimal system, ocular surface, anterior chamber, uvea, crystalline lens, cornea and vitreous body; refractive surgery; epidemiology and clinical trials of anterior eye disease; differential diagnosis; new diagnostic tools e.g. Corneal topography, impression cytology, PCR, optical coherence tomography, confocal microscopy, ultrasound biomicroscopy, tear analysis, microbial sampling (swabs) and analysis, corneal aesthesiometry; management strategies including both current and future therapeutic approaches, influence of therapy on disease course and patient prognosis, iatrogenic disease and ocular manifestations of systemic diseases; management of chronic disease, referral criteria and surgical management.