OPT 5411 Clinical Optometry I
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Introduction to optometric examination technique, theory and application. Strategies of optometric procedure sequencing. Medical interviewing techniques, health history content, medical record documentation, introduction to diagnosis of the visual system. Emphasis on entrance testing skills to include case history, visual acuity, stereopsis, color vision, Amsler grid, extra-ocular motilities, accommodation, convergence, confrontation visual fields, and pupillary reflexes. Introduction to refraction sequence (retinoscopy, use of phoropter) as well as keratometry. Lectures will incorporate the theory of the procedures and proper sequencing. Laboratory will emphasize the performance of the procedures accurately and efficiently.
Offered
Fall