Optometry Skills for Success
What you'll learn
- Basic professional optometry procedures
- Clinical eye procedures
- Eye tests for students
- How to test a person’s eyes
- How to do a cover test
- How to do Jackson cross cyl
- How to measure vision in a child
- How to take a history & symptoms
- How to do oculomotility
- How to check pupil reflexes
- How to do refraction
- How to do retinoscopy
- How to do ophthalmoscopy
- What to say to the patient at the end of a sight test
- How to keep good records during a sight test
- How to do subjective refraction
Requirements
- Studying, or have studied, optometry
- Offer optometry services / working in optometry
- Returning to optometry
Description
For optometry students, pre-registration and novice optometrists (and those returning to work), junior eye doctors, dispensing opticians and orthoptists preparing for refraction exams, contact lens opticians, clinical assistants and eyecare educators.
Created by Dr Frank Eperjesi, BSc PhD FCOptom DOrth PGCertHE Senior Fellow HEA MBA MEd FInstLM │ Professor of Learning Innovation │ Professor of Clinical Optometry | Registered Optometrist
Who this course is for:
- Optometry students
- Undergraduate optometrists
- Pre-registration optometrists
- Novice optometrists
- Optometrists returning to work
- Junior eye doctors
- Dispensing opticians
- Orthoptists preparing for refraction exams
- Contact lens opticians
- Clinical optometry assistants
- Eyecare educators
Instructor
After 16 years in the Optometry department, including 5 as Head, I took up the post of Interim Deputy Head of Aston Business School. That was interesting and brought a different set of challenges. Then I was successful in my application for the position of Dean of the Centre of Learning and Innovation in Professional Practice. I'm also a visiting Professor in Clinical Optometry at the Arab-American University, Ramallah, Palestine.
I am assisted in my course creation by video producer Mark Slocombe, of CreationVideo.