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Optometrian kliiniset menetelmät - syventävät opinnot (5 cr)

Code: SX00DC71-3005

General information


Enrollment

02.05.2019 - 15.05.2019

Timing

20.08.2019 - 20.10.2019

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Kuntoutus ja tutkiminen

Campus

Mannerheimintie 172

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

0 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Optometrian tutkinto-ohjelma

Teachers

  • Pia Mäkelä
  • Optometria Virtuaali
  • Johanna Valtanen
  • Satu Autio

Teacher in charge

Satu Autio

Groups

  • SXE16S1
    Optometrian tutkinto-ohjelma

Objective

-Students are able to create and to keep clear, accurate and contemporaneous patient records and they have ability to interpret and respond appropriately to existing records.
-Students are able to manage with non-tolerance cases.
-Students are able to describe how to manage a patient presenting with an incomitant deviation and an adult patient with heterotropia.
-Student can describe the normal overall development of the child. They are able to describe the characteristics of special learning difficulties and the manifestation of the child's everyday life. They can describe the general features of attention and executive functions disorders and know the relation to vision. The student recognizes the role of optometrist in supporting child development and knows the possibilities of multiprofessional cooperation.
-Students are able to describe how to manage children at risk of developing or presenting with an anomaly of binocular vision. They are able to demonstrate an understanding of techniques for assessment of vision in infants. They have the ability to assess children’s visual function using appropriate techniques.
-Students are able fit special contact lenses and are able to describe the principles of the orthokeratology lens fitting. They are able to tell special features then fitting to children and infants.
-Students are able to advise on refractive surgery options. They have the ability to identify contraindications to refractive surgery. They have understanding of the techniques used in the pre-operative assessments. The have ability to manage the aftercare of patients having undergone.

Content

-General optometry: patient recording (KANTA)
-Spectacle technology: multifocal lenses special cases: anisometropia, prisms corrections, intolerance cases.
-Contact lens fitting: Specially designed lenses and fitting procedures for keratoconus, irregular corneas, keratoplastic and after refractive surgery, fitting procedures for orthokeratology.
-Binocular vision: evaluation and management of heterotropia, incomitant deviations and nystagmus.
-Pediatric optometry: normal motor, language and social development milestones, Reading, writing and arithmetic learning disability, ADHD and ADD and connection to vision, Services for supporting the child's learning. Paediatric communication, Assessment of visual acuity, Refractive examination, Spectacle dispensing, Paediatric contact lens fitting, Binocular vision disorders, Paediatric eye disorders
-Refractive surgery: General health and ocular health contraindications, Pre-operative assessment, Patient counselling, Precautions: (ectasia, corneal dystrophies, keratitis. Basics of treatment options. Postoperative assessment: follow-up schedule, typical symptoms, vision assessment, ocular examination, typical early postoperative signs.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student is able to:
- display learning in core content
- use individual professional concepts correctly
- find information for a specific situation
- distinguish between non-theoretical and theoretical information
- act in individual professional situations as instructed - display learning in his professional field
- show that he has achieved the targets for core competence
- follow safety instructions
- display learning in the ethical principles of his professional field
- operate as a member of a student group

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student is able to:
- display an understanding of concepts and professional knowledge in the field
- assess and limit the amount of information needed
- operate well in typical professional duties and contexts
- operate in a multicultural environment
- operate safely
- act according to professional ethics
- operate in a student group

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student is able to:
- use concepts and knowledge in his field systematically
- assess and use various information sources
- apply professional information in professional assignments
- work in various duties in a variety of operating environments
- act independently and responsibly in professional contexts
- to take safety issues into consideration in his action
- argue his choices on the basis of professional ethics
- organise the activities of a group of students

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Student is able to:
- Display learning in core content
- Use individual professional concepts correctly
- Find information for a specific situation
- Distinguish between non-theoretical and theoretical information
- Act in individual professional situations as instructed
- Display learning in his professional field
- Show that he has achieved the targets for core competence
- Follow safety instructions
- Display learning in the ethical principles of his professional field
- Operate as a member of a student group

Fail:
The student does not know or appreciate knowledge in the field sufficiently
- The student does not know or cannot use concepts in his field properly
- The student's professional level is not properly developed
- The student is not acting in accordance with his training and guidance
- The student is not familiar with instructions related to professional safety or ethical principles
- The student withdraws from cooperation with others