44793 - Training Internship 2

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Mauro Cellini
  • Credits: 2
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthoptics and Assistance in Ophthalmology (for certified professional orthoptists and assistants in ophthalmology) (cod. 0163)

Learning outcomes

Orthoptic visit on adults and children, characterized by the collection of history and subsequently from refractive exam, using corrective lenses, and a orthoptic visit to highlight any motor deficits of extrinsic eye muscles. Acquiring a good practice in the use of lensmeter for reading the power of corrective lenses, of the autorefractor and of the ophthalmometer to assess the degree of corneal astigmatism.

Course contents

Orthoptic visit in adults and in children with: • History • Lensmeter • Ophthalmometry • Autorefractometry • Use trail lens • Guest visual acuity with optic charts • Assessment of motor fusion: Irvine test • Assessment of fusion power • Binocular sensioriality examination • Worth lights, Sinoctophor, Bagolini glass stripe • Extrinsic eye motility  exam• Guest strabic deviation: cover-uncover test • Measurement of strabic deviation: cover test and prisms, Hirschberg test , Krimsk test • Hess Lancaster screen test, drums of Maddox, red glass tests, Bielschowsky tests • Using press-on prisms

Readings/Bibliography

Slides and notes of lessons distributed on computer.

Teaching methods

Classes will be based on the explanation of operation of various diagnostic tools and investigation techniques used. Students can also check their level of learning by participating actively in the patients visits alongside highly specialized personal.

Assessment methods

At the end of the course will be made an oral examination which consist in discussing a case after that the student has done all instrumental investigations of the case.


Teaching tools

Video, PC, overhead projector and ophthalmology visit room.

Office hours

See the website of Mauro Cellini