MTBE0321c Behavioural optometry I – practice

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. MUDr. Svatopluk Synek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Petr Veselý, DiS., Ph.D. (lecturer)
Anna Petruželková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. MUDr. Svatopluk Synek, CSc.
Department of Optometry and Orthoptics – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Anna Petruželková
Supplier department: Department of Optometry and Orthoptics – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MTOO0242c Optics and optometry II-pract. && MTOO0242p Optics and optometry II - l.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Student will be able to do refractive error correction for various working activities after the finishing this course. Students is able to solve problems of increasing of vision effectiveness, e.g. by sport, by patients with asthenopia, he suggests also behavioural exercises, which can lead to improvement of inborn disorders of vision, improvement of accommodation a vergence functions and also improvement of eyeball motions.
Syllabus
  • Development of visual function, development of binocular function, principals of neuroophthalmogy, basic concepts of refractive, contactology, clinical, paediatric, working, sport optometry and also low vision optometry and optometry for handicapped patients, visual optometry, Skeffington’s model of vision, vision hygiene, visual abilities analyzes, accommodation vergence mechanisms, screening test, building plans for exercising.
Literature
  • B. J. W. Evans: Pickwell´s: Binocular vision anomalies. Butterworth-Heinemann; 2002.
  • A.W. Reichow: Sports Vision (Introduction to Behavioral Optometry). Optometric Extension Program Foundation, 1993
  • Scheimann, Mitchell; Wick, Bruce. Clinical Management of Binocular Vision. 2nd Edition . Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. 713 s. ISBN 07-8173-275-1.
Teaching methods
practice
Assessment methods
credit
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: total 8 hours.
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