This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills, knowledge and experiential learning to enter the optometry industry.
Type: undergraduate degree
Duration: 4 years full time
Compulsory Subjects
First year subjects:
- Academic competencies
- Physical and geometric optics
- Basic anatomy and physiology
- Microbiology
- Optometric theory and methods
- Psychology
- Practice management skills
Second year subjects:
- Optometric theory and methods
- Ophthalmic dispensing
- General pathology
- Ophthalmic and visual optics
- Applied anatomy and physiology
- Vision rehabilitation
- Environmental and industrial optometry, trauma and eye first aid
- Special topics and optics
Third year subjects:
- Ocular pathology
- General and ocular pharmacology
- Ocular mycology and vision development
- Optometry research skills
- Systems pathology and medical microbiology
- Contact lenses and practice
- Clinical optometry
- Public health and compulsory residency
Fourth year subjects:
- Clinical optometry
- Optometric methods and advanced paediatric optometry
- Neuro-optometry and vision therapy skills
- Diagnostics and low vision skills
- Clinical medicine and advanced ocular disease
- Clinical care, contact lenses skills and complications
Careers: optometrist.
Source: www.ufs.ac.za