20734 - Visual Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students know the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of the main dideases of the visual system in children and adults; moreover, students know the basis of functional and instrumental semeiotics and the principles of ophthalmic therapy, especially relating to emergencies.

Course contents

Pathology of the orbit and adnexa; eyelid pathology; the red eye: conjunctivities anf keratities; open angle and closed angle glaucoma; cataracts; uveities; vitreous and vitreo-retinal diseases; macular diseases; optic nerve diseases; ocular motility disorders. Assistance to the ophthalmic patient.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures in presence and remotely via the Teams platform.

Assessment methods

The assessment of the learning focuses on a written quiz test, with 10 multiple choice questions, which is carried out together with the tests of Otolaryngology (10 questions), Ethics (open answer questions) and Intensive Care (20 questions). The Nursing module is instead evaluated orally by the respective teachers. The Opthalmology test will be considered passed if the student correctly answers at least 6 questions. The outcome of this test will then be combined with that relating to the other courses of the integrated course and the exam will be passed if all the individual tests are sufficient. On the contrary, not having passed a single test will result in the repetition in a subsequent appeal of the entire exam. The total duration of the written test is 60 minutes. Tools such as calculation aids, vocabularies, etc. cannot be used. Registration for the exam takes place online on Alma Esami. During the pandemic, the examination will be oral and will take place remotely via the Teams platform.

Teaching tools

Slide and video projection.

Office hours

See the website of Costantino Schiavi