20734 - Visual Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students know the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of the main diseases 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 and keratities; open angle and closed angle glaucoma; cataracts; uveities; vitreous and vitreo-retinal diseases; macular disease; optic nerve disease; 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 15 multiple choice questions (15 minutes) which is carried out together with the tests of Otolaryngology (15 multiple choice questions in 15 minutes), Ethics-Cesena (5 open answer questions in 60 minutes), Etics-Rimini (ethical analysis of a clinical case + 6 open questions in 60 minutes), Intensive Care (30 multiple choice questions in 30 minutes), Nursing module (15 multiple choice questions in 15 minutes). The Ophthalmology test will be considered passed if the student correctly answers at least 9 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. 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