OPT 7217 Clinical Medicine and Systemic Disease
Two hours of lecture per week. An overview of systemic diseases, their presentations, diagnostic consideration, and management strategies. Identification of critical signs and symptoms of systemic disease that warrant urgent or emergent referrals. Integration of systemic disease knowledge in the treatment and management of ocular disease. Ocular presentation of systemic disease. Systemic diseases with ocular co-morbidities. The effects of treatment of systemic disease on eye health and vision to include high risk oral medications and their potential ocular side-effects. Emphasis on diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune disease, microbial infections and other diseases germane to optometric practice.
Offered
Spring