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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Introduces clinical work designed to apply technical skills acquired in previous course work. Recording of clinical data, front office procedures, obtaining patient's health and ocular history, measuring visual acuity, medical record management, commonly used abbreviations/terms stressed.
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2.00 Credits
Presents basic optical principles and the human eye from both theoretical and practical standpoints. Explores prisms, basic dispensing, techniques for measuring types of lenses, use of the lens clock, use and maintenance of ophthalmic instruments and equipment.
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2.00 Credits
Continuation of OMT 145 Clinical Optics 1. Introduces principles of retinoscopy, refractometry, basic lensometry, basic keratometry, and prisms as they relate to ocular motility. Prerequisite: OMT 145.
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2.00 Credits
Relates structure and function of the human visual system. Anatomy and physiology of the eyeball, orbit, and ocular adnexa are covered. Special emphasis placed on ocular terminology.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces fundamentals of diagnostic testing and techniques including: applanation and Schiotz tonometry and biomicroscopy. Presents principles and techniques of refractometry and retinoscopy with emphasis on skill development utilizing the schematic eye.
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4.00 Credits
Presents principles and techniques of various methods of visual field examination. The visual pathway, common causes of visual field loss, and related anatomy will be covered with emphasis on Goldmann perimetry. Also covers principles and techniques of exophthalmometry, color vision and tear function tests. Emphasis placed on skill development.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces ocular motility and binocular vision. Emphasis placed on understanding the presentation, characteristics, natural history of the strabismus patient. Amblyopia and binocular vision are also addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Addresses the technician's role in minor office surgery and assisting in the operating room. Topics include proper aseptic technique, scrubbing, gowning and gloving, sterilization of instruments, the importance of surgical conscience/legal responsibilities, proper disposition of supplies/medications and security procedures of medications as regulated by law.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on technician's role in assisting in the management of preoperative and post operative patients. More advanced ophthalmic procedures included such as ultrasound, potential acuity meter, direct ophthalmoscopy and contrast sensitivity. Specimen collection for the laboratory addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Covers fundamentals of contact lens. Principles of lens structures, materials used in manufacture, categorization, comparison of characteristics of soft and rigid lenses. Includes theory and utilization of instruments commonly used in fitting and assessing contact lenses. Includes use of keratometer, biomicroscope, radiuscope, lensometer, gauges, loupes, magnifiers and fluorescent tubes.
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