This course is attempted to insight student into the principles of ocular medications. This includes dosages, indications, contraindications and adverse effects of drugs used for the treatment of abnormal eye conditions such as glaucoma, bacterial, fungal and viral infections and inflammatory diseases in addition to ocular manifestations of systemically administered medications. All will be covered in this course in two-hour weekly lectures over ten weeks.

 Ocular photography, topography, specular microscopy, corneal pachymetry, aberrometry and ocular quality assessment will be covered over ten weeks with one lecture hour and four hours of clinical practice per week.

In this clinical course, the student is required to continue to examine (and fill in case reports for) a minimum of ten routine patients (five each for regular soft and regular hard lenses) a week, in the external contact lens clinic run by the Optometry department.

In this clinical course, the student is required to manage (and fill in case reports for) a minimum of four patients a week in the external contact lens specialty clinic run by the optometry department. The student is expected to attain proficiency in fitting and managing patients who require soft and hard toric lenses, keratoconic lenses, bandage lenses, therapeutic lenses, cosmetic lenses and ocular prostheses.

In this entirely clinical course, the student is required to examine (and fill in case reports for) a minimum of five routine patients a week, in the external Optometry clinic run by the Optometry department

Biochemical Instrumentation Techniques

General Bacteriology MBIO260