Ophthalmic Instrumentation

Ophthalmic Lens & Dispensing

Spectacle lenses and frames, their materials, types, advantages and disadvantages, calculations involved, when and how to prescribe, the construction, design application and development of lenses, particularly the methods of calculating their power and effect.

Optical and Ophthalmic Instrumentation

Commonly used optometric instruments, its basic principle, description and usage in clinical practice.

Clinical Refraction

Various clinical refraction procedures, pediatric optometry, special population,neuro optometric evaluation, sports vision etc

Binocular Vision & Ocular Mobility

Theoretical aspects of Binocular Vision, ocular mobility, clinical application, normal binocular vision and space perception, Gross anatomy and physiology of extraocular muscles, various binocular vision anomalies, its diagnostic approaches and management

Low Vision Aids & Visual Rehabilitation

Science of low vision, epidemiology aspect of visual impairment, types of low vision devices and its optical principles, clinical approach of the low vision patients, assistive devices for totally visually challenged, art of prescribing low vision devices, training the low vision patients and other rehabilitation measures, causes of Low vision, functional and psychosocial consequences, best suitable low vision care through functional assistive devices and rehabilitation.

Contact Lenses

Fundamentals of ocular lens, theoretical and practical aspects of Contact Lenses.

Microbiology & Pathology

Basic biological, biochemical and pathogenic characteristics of pathogenic organisms.

Ocular Anatomy and Physiology

Gross, functional and applied anatomy, various structures in the eye and adnexa, structure and connections between the various parts of the central nervous system and the eye, normal functioning of all structures of the eye and their interactions, physiological aspects of normal growth and development of the eye, the phenomenon of vision

Biochemistry

Structure ,function and interrelationship of biomolecules and consequences of deviation from the normal, Integration of various aspects of metabolism and their regulatory pathways, Understand metabolic processes taking place in different ocular structures.

Ocular Disease

To understand various ocular diseases affecting various parts of the eyes. It covers clinical signs and symptoms, cause, pathophysiological mechanism, diagnostic approach, differential diagnosis and management aspects of the ocular diseases.

Systemic Conditions and the Eye

Definition, classification, clinical diagnosis, complications and management of various systemic diseases with its ocular manifestations.

Public Health and Community Optometry

Fundamentals of public health, basic sciences of public health optometry, community optometry, epidemiology of vision problems especially focused on Indian scenario, case studies

Pharmacology

Actions, uses, adverse effects and mode of administration of drugs related to eyes, application and interpretation, clinical optometry procedures in routine optometric examination

Research Methodology & Biostatistics

Fundamentals on qualitative and quantitative research methods, biostatistics and statistical application on vision data, data analysis, basic principles of research and methods, inferences from the research findings, field project