Note: This course is not offered in 2006. It will be offered from 2008.

Objectives: To produce a student with a professional attitude and good communication skills who can integrate scientific and clinical aspects of optometry. To advance student knowledge and stimulate interest in dispensing, contact lenses and binocular vision.

Brief Curriculum: Dispensing: lens types, tints, ophthalmic prism, lens materials, neutralising lenses, interpreting a prescription, selecting spectacles frames, patient management, case studies; Contact lenses: terminology, lens design, contact lens biophysics, rigid lenses, soft lenses, optics of contact lenses, lens care, fitting children; Binocular vision: interviewing, ocular motility, accommodation, vergence eye movements, heterophoria measurement, the stereoscope, graphical analysis, case analysis.