OPTOM 508Optometry Clinic
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Fall
- Last listed
- 1982–83
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1968–69 to 1982–83; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The clinical programme teaches the student how to provide optometrical services including pathology detection, strabismus evaluation and the application of spectacle therapy, contact lenses and vision training. The patients cared for extend from the pediatric to the geriatric, and include those with perceptual problems, or with low vision. No credit given until successful completion of Optom 518. 24 Clinic 0.5
As printed in the 1976–77 to 1982–83 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Permission of Clinic Director
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1968–69 to 1982–83, 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.
1976–77 to 1982–83 6 calendars
The clinical programme teaches the student how to provide optometrical services including pathology detection, strabismus evaluation and the application of spectacle therapy, contact lenses and vision training. The patients cared for extend from the pediatric to the geriatric, and include those with perceptual problems, or with low vision.
No credit given until successful completion of
Optom 518.
24 Clinic 0.5
Prereq: Permission of Clinic Director
Offered Fall
1975–76 1 calendar
The clinical programme teaches the student how to care for a variety of patients ranging in age from infants to the elderly and presenting a full spectrum of vision problems. Specific clinical departments provide instruction and experience in the techniques of pathology detection, contact lens application, strabismus evaluation, orthoptics and vision training and the care of patients with low vision or those with perceptual problems.
No credit will be given for this course until successful completion of Optometry 518*.
24 hours per week, Fall term
Prerequisite: Permission of Clinic Director
1969–70 to 1974–75 6 calendars
The clinic is the culmination of the optometry student’s educational career. Emphasis will be placed on vision care to patients of all ages and walks of life. The clinical interne performs the total work of an optometrist under the supervision and counsel of clinical faculty. Specialty clinics will be operated within the clinical organization to obtain facility of application of appropriate skills in pathology detection, orthoptics and vision training, contact lens application, the detection and rehabilitation of perpetual-motor problems, the problems associated with the low-vision patient. 22 hours clinic, Fall term.
1968–69 1 calendar
This program is divided into a number of clinics in order to facilitate clinical instruction, to make the most effective use of time and clinic space, and to maintain a high quality of service to clinic patients. Each patient who attends the clinic is first seen in the visual analysis clinic. Patients will be referred to the other clinics as features of their cases dictate.
22 hours clinic.
509.* Pharmacology. Neurohumoral theory, responses to drugs, isotonicity, pH, stability; sterile techniques; preservatives; disinfectants; drugs used topically in the eye, as diagnostic aids, their uses, contra-indications, shelf life, sterility; drugs used in connection with contact lens practice; drugs used topically for therapeutic effect; drugs used systematically which have side effects on eyes and vision.
2 lectures, one term.