COURSE: BACHELORS IN OPTOMETRY

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

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