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OPTOM 400Clinical Optometry

Faculty
Science
Last listed
1969–70

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1969–70; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

The sequence of testing in the clinical examination will be outlined. Stress will be on case history, tests of integrity of the visual system, tests of the refractive properties, and tests of binocular relations and the integration of these tests into a satisfactory clinical sequence. Interpretation of the data and a studv of the various methods of clinical analy- School of Optometry sis and modes of treatment will constitute a large part of the course; the detection of strabismus and techniques for testing the sensory and motor characteristics of the strabismic patient; the aim will be to allow the student to evaluate the likelihood of achieving a cure by non-surgical means; techniques of orthoptics and visual training by which a rehabilitation of vision can be attempted will be described and demonstrated. 3 lectures,3 hours labomtory.

As printed in the 1968–69 to 1969–70 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.

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    How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1969–70, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

    1968–69 to 1969–70 2 calendars

    The sequence of testing in the clinical examination will be outlined. Stress will be on case history, tests of integrity of the visual system, tests of the refractive properties, and tests of binocular relations and the integration of these tests into a satisfactory clinical sequence. Interpretation of the data and a studv of the various methods of clinical analy-

    School of Optometry

    sis and modes of treatment will constitute a large part of the course; the detection of strabismus and techniques for testing the sensory and motor characteristics of the strabismic patient; the aim will be to allow the student to evaluate the likelihood of achieving a cure by non-surgical means; techniques of orthoptics and visual training by which a rehabilitation of vision can be attempted will be described and demonstrated. 3 lectures,3 hours labomtory.