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Optometry 3B - OPTM3211
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Optometry and Vision Science
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 

Description

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

Objectives: To build on OPTM3111 and to advance student knowledge and stimulate interest in primary care optometry, contact lenses and binocular vision.

Brief Curriculum: Primary care: clinical laboratories that practice clinical skills in the assessment of normal subjects; Contact lenses: corneal physiology relating to contact lens wear, advanced contact lens fitting, management of the contact lens patient; Binocular vision: assessment of strabismus, amblyopia and anomalous correspondence, AC/A ratio, correspondence and fusion, fixation disparity, stereopsis, control systems analysis; Management of anomalies; Case analysis.

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