Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2019-20
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2019-20
Course context for academic year 2019-20
The main objective is that the future graduate was able to apply sinergically the applied and theoretical knowledge acquired about Optics and Optometry along his/her degree for indentifying and analysing environmental and occupational hazards causing eye health problems or visual impairment (low visual performance). In this way, with an integral approach of the degree, the future graduate will be able to take right decisions, from interdisciplinar and health legislation, in each specific case to prescript a treatment for recovering visual function, or improving visual performance.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
Specific competences (CE):>>Module 1: basic competences
- CES22 : Understand the psychological factors of the relationship between the optician optometrist and the patient.
Specific competences (CE):>>Module 2: optics competences
- CES32 : Understand the fundamentals and laws of radiometrics and photometrics.
Specific competences (CE):>>Module 3: vision system pathology competences
- CES40 : Understand the properties and functions of the different elements making up the visual system.
- CES49 : Detect and evaluate the main ophthalmological disorders to refer patients to the ophthalmologist for study and treatment.
- CES51 : Understand the epidemiological models of the main visual pathologies.
- CES52 : Understand and apply health education techniques to the main generic ocular health problems. Understand the principles of sickness and health.
- CES53 : Understand the manifestations of the pathological processes and mechanisms involved in producing the main human illnesses.
Specific competences (CE):>>Module 4: optometry competences
- CES54 : Develop communication, data recording and clinical history preparation skills.
- CES59 : Understand the sensorial and oculomotor mechanisms of binocular vision.
- CES61 : Ability to prescribe, control and monitor optical corrections.
- CES71 : Apply controlled corneal topography modification techniques using contact lenses.
- CES73 : Adapt contact lenses and ocular prostheses to improve vision and the external appearance of the eye.
- CES74 : Understand the function of the retina as a receptor of radiant energy.
- CES76 : Understand the modifications in perceptive processes associated with aging.
- CES82 : Understand and apply visual screening techniques applied to different populations.
- CES84 : Understand the legal and psychosocial aspects of the profession.
- CES85 : Capacity to act as a primary visual care agent.
- CES86 : Understand the legal and psychosocial aspects of the profession.
- CES87 : Understand the foundations and techniques of health care education and the main generic health care programmes to which optometrists should contribute from their field of activity.
Specific competences (CE):>>Module 5: final project and work experience competences
- CES91 : Apply the technique for fitting visual corrections and compensations to glasses and the possible fine-tuning of contact lenses.
- CES92 : Make contact with the commercialisation of products, their supply, storage, conservation and information.
- CES94 : Understand the different protocols for patient-related action.
- CES95 : Understand the indications and procedure for carrying out and interpreting the complementary tests needed for vision consultations.
- CES96 : Carry out the patient care protocol in the optometric clinic/surgery.
- CES97 : Write a medical history adapted to the profile of the patient.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2019-20
- To understand the link between User, Visual task, and Environment
- To know about the functional limits of human vision and its relationship with age.
- To know about the Occupational and free activities contexts, linking with the task visibility factors.
- To evaluate eye hazards in occupational or free-time activities under radiant energy exposures (lLaser and Spectrum light sources), and understand the fundamentals of radiometric control for avoiding eye injuries.
- Identify and analyse environmental and occupational hazards causing eye injuries (mechanic, chemical, electric, etc).
- Acquiere ability for evaluating the visual performance of any patient and propose the most right treatment (advices, optical prescription, environment design, visual therapy, etc).
- Acquiere ability for design a general scheme of a "visual and eye prevention programme" for any type of corporation.
- To Know the fundamentals and techniques in health education and the main general programmes of visual health Surveillance, where the optometrist should contribute from a collaborative approach with other health professionals.
- To Know about the existence of international and national standards related to visual health and eye health in each context.
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