Expand your clinical skills, developing an understanding of ocular and systemic disease, and the neuroscience of visual perception. Enhance your clinical confidence and competence, learning how to use the latest technologies to investigate ocular abnormalities. This module continues the process of developing examination skills and the use of clinical instruments that are a fundamental part of a standard eye examination as well as providing the background knowledge and understanding behind the techniques.
This module introduces you to contact lenses and their use and associated complications. You will cover indications for contact lenses, physiological changes induced by lenses, properties of materials, fitting of lenses, preliminary investigations and care regimes.
This module covers the main eye diseases you will encounter in practice. These include, glaucoma, age related macular degeneration, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and retinal detachment, congenital anomalies and vascular accidents affecting the retinal circulation and conditions affecting the pupil. This module will develop your understanding of normal binocular vision, which involves how the eyes work together.
You will also gain the knowledge and skills to both recognise and investigate both normal and anomalous binocular single vision. This module integrates knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the visual system with a thorough understanding of the limits of human visual performance and how this can be measured. This module will develop your knowledge, skills and applications in dispensing for all types of ophthalmic lenses, spectacle frames and optical appliances in practice.
It also prepares you for seeing patients in dispensing clinics in the third year. Develop the knowledge and clinical skills for professional practice. See a diverse range of patients under supervision at our new City Sight Optometry Clinic and carry out full eye examinations. Develop highly specialised skills and observe patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the world's leading eye hospitals.
The module provides you with clinical experience in the fitting and aftercare of contact lens patients as a pre-cursor to more extensive experience to be gained in the pre-registration period. This module builds on the second year module General Pathology and Eye Disease. It places a particular emphasis on those eye diseases that are frequently encountered by optometrists working in a primary care setting. This module builds on the second year module and places a particular emphasis on those eye diseases frequently encountered by optometrists working in a primary care setting.
Disease management within the module is presented from both an optometric and ophthalmological perspective. By gaining an understanding of the importance of evidence-based research in the vision health sciences, this module will prepare you for professional engagement in your future career as an optometric practitioner.
This module will prepare you for your career as a primary-care optometrist and health care professional by developing your clinical skills and understanding of a clinical optometric routine including dispensing spectacles. You will also learn about your legal responsibilities as an optometrist. City's Division of Optometry and Visual Sciences has an excellent reputation with expert academics from a wide range of disciplines including optometrists, ophthalmologists, dispensing opticians, orthoptists, physicists, psychologists, neuroscientists and biologists.
During your time with us, you will learn through lectures, tutorials, seminars, laboratory work, clinical practice, Objective Structured Clinical Examination OSCE practice and our web-based virtual learning environment. Tutorials encourage you to discuss clinical cases and use role play to explore patient and practitioner communications so you are better prepared for the clinical environment.
You will benefit from state-of-the-art clinics and laboratories, including our brand new City Sight Optometry Clinic as well as from study, placement and employment opportunities in our diverse capital city. At City, we recognise that one way of assessing does not suit everyone so we use many different techniques to ensure we gain the very best from our students.
The balance of assessment by examination, practical examination and assessment by coursework will to some extent depend on the optional modules you choose. A student will on average have 16 hours per week of direct contact with staff in teaching sessions.
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Some of our degrees may involve additional expenses which are not covered by your tuition fees. Find out more about additional expenses. This degree is accredited by the General Optical Council. You can apply through your school or college using the Apply system, which enables you to submit your application directly to the UCAS website. You can apply to up to five universities or institutions on the form.
UCAS has implemented an 'invisibility of choices' policy so that, on the initial application and while you are receiving decisions, each institution can see only their entry and not those of other institutions you have chosen. This ensures that your application for a course at City is considered solely on your academic and personal qualities. Complete the Admissions enquiry form. If your enquiry is about admission to a particular course, please use the contact details provided on the course page.
Applications that arrive after 26 th January will be considered only at City's discretion. Wednesday, 27 th October Monday, 28 th June New, collaborative research project including City, University of London, will investigate how people with elevated eye pressure could benefit from treatment to reduce their risk of glaucoma.
Want to study optometry? Lack the qualifications for direct entry to a BSc? Duration: 1 year. Award: Master of Science. Skip to: Skip to main content Skip to accessibility. What is unique about this course? Play video. Key information This three-year accredited degree aims to provide you with the training required to examine, diagnose and manage a range of ocular conditions.
Start date September UCAS code B Duration 3 years full-time. Institution City, University of London. In addition, optometrists can dispense, fit, and supply glasses or contact lenses. Canadian students are welcome to apply to study optometry in UK institutions; the universities that currently offer the programme are:.
Credentialing information for entry onto the IOBP can be found at forac-faroc. The IOBP will take either two months or one year depending on how you do on the entry exam , after which students are required to write the Canadian board exam.
Students are not required to have an undergraduate degree like they are in Canada. The route to becoming a qualified optometrist in the UK includes the following steps:. There are two ways in which UK optometrists might become Doctors of Optometry:.
A-levels are requirements for UK students. In the UK, optometry, medicine, dentistry, and all other vocational degrees are undergraduate programmes that students apply to when they are in their second year of A-level study aged years. Canadian applicants can apply to study optometry directly from High School, or after you have completed an undergraduate degree please check the course webpages for specific details. However, it is important for you to be aware of requirements for entry onto the International Optometric Bridging Programme IOBP when considering your application, if you are planning to go back to Canada to work as an optometrist:.
All applications should be made via the UCAS system www. Follow the guidelines provided for the UCAS system. We usually expect at least one reference and this reference should be an academic one. If you have additional work-related references then you can submit these additionally.
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