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Clinical Optometry 2B - OPTM2202
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: OPTM2101, OPTM2102, OPTM2105 Corequisite: OPTM2201, OPTM2206
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Objectives:To build on OPTM2102 in equipping the student to be professional in manner with good communication and technical skills and able to carry out a logically sequenced primary care evaluation of the health of the ocular and visual system, refractive status and binocular coordination with a view to prescribing spectacles for the uncomplicated patient.

Brief Curriculum: Interviewing skills. Ocular health: biomicroscopy, tonometry, ophthalmoscopy. Ametropia: objective and subjective refraction. Binocular vision: sensory and motor aspects of binocular vision, introduction to binocular vision anomalies, accommodation/convergence imbalances.

Note: School approval must be granted to enrol in this course
Contact the School of Optometry and Vision Science
Email: optometry@unsw.edu.au
Phone: 02 9385 4639
Fax: 02 9313 6243

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