OPTOM 519

1977–78 to 1982–83 6 calendars

Aspects of prevention of accidents and injury to the visual system.

The production of efficient and comfortable vision at work and recreation.

Graduation in Optometry is contingent upon successful completion of comprehensive examinations involving oral, written and clinical applications of optometry. These examinations are ordinarily held in the Winter term of the fourth professional year.

Course Descriptions

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1972–73 to 1976–77 5 calendars

Titled Community Health Optometry.

A continuation of 509*, 4 lectures, Winter term

Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department Associate Professor, Associate Chairman

Professors

Associate Professors

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Assistant Professors: J J

Minor

Departmental Recommendation

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Note to General Philosophy Students

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• 1973–74 PDF p. 505
• 1974–75 PDF p. 566
• 1975–76 PDF p. 391
• 1976–77 PDF p. 345

1971–72 1 calendar

Titled Public Health Optometry Definition and Scope Admission Standards Research in Progress.

A continuation of 509*. 2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory, Winter term.

Graduate and Research Programmes

The School of Optometry offers graduate work leading to the M.Sc. degree in Physiological Optics. All graduate courses are one term in length.

Physiological Optics is, broadly speaking, the scientific study of vision and the eye. Specifically, it is the branch of science concerned with vision and its physical, physiological and psychological ramifications. Thus Physiological Optics is multidisciplinary since it interrelates anatomy, physics, biochemistry, physiology and psychology in the creation of new knowledge and understanding of ocular functions and visual processes.

This programme is open to the graduates, with at least a B average, from Schools of Optometry with undergraduate programmes equivalent to the Optometry programme at University of Waterloo. Students who have completed B.Sc. in other areas with at least B standing will be considered for admission only after successful completion of one or more qualifying years. The “qualifying programme” would be planned in consultation with the faculty in the School of Optometry, and designed to remove deficiencies in the background of students so that they would have academic qualifications equivalent to honours graduates in Optometry before entering the M.Sc. programme.

The effects of pupil size on space perception as manifest in changes in the Pulfrich Phenomenon and the horopter are being studied. Changes in the time characteristics of eye movements as related to eye movement exercises are being investigated.

0* Vegetative Physiology of the Visual System

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Clinical research in contact lenses, and their effects on the eyes and in vision aids for the partially sighted.

Physical properties of ophthalmic lenses, surface quality, focal properties, design, absorptive properties.

A study of children with Down’s syndrome (mongolism) is being conducted. These children are being assessed as to the prevalence of ocular defects and their dermatoglyphic patterns are being obtained at the same time. The chromosomal abnormality seems to be associated with specific changes in the patterns of the lines and ridges on their fingers which correlate well with their karyotype. The accompanying ocular defects are being tabulated and will be compared on a statistical basis with the reported prevalence of each defect in normal children.

Research on drug induced vision effects which tend to impair driving performance.

Effects of intermittent stimulation on border enhancement.

Effects of wave length on subjective intermittence patterns.

Improved instrument for wide-angle ophthalmoscopy.

Interrelations between fixation patterns and visual acuity in amblyopia.

A comparison of the amount and kinds of corneal astigmatism present in Amerind children in Northern Saskatchewan with similar measurements on other Amerinds, Caucasians and Maori children.

Data on the refractive state of the eye, corneal, curvature, corneal astigmatism, ocular astigmatism, corrected and uncorrected visual acuity of Amerind children from the James Bay Zone is presently under assessment and comparison with samples of other child populations.

Children between birth and the fifth year of life are being examined as part of a continuing longitudinal study of ocular refractive trends during this life period. This is a continuation of a cross sectional study of the same age group.

A search for the effects of high altitude parachute jumping on the eye is being conducted on two subjects.

A qualitative and quantitative study of lacrimal] proteins and cations in the presence of pollutants and extraocular foreign bodies is under way. Initial studies indicate that larger numbers of fractions can be segregated and identified than has been the case heretofore. The application of these findings to contact lens wear is a concomitant part of the study.

Evaluation of the efficiency and economy of methods for vision screening of populations of varying ages.

Census of ocular problems of the institutionalized aged.

The effect of contact lenses on lacrimal fluids.

The assessment of the effects of soft-contact lenses on ocular tissues and fluids.

Biophysics of colour vision: a large trichromatic colorimeter is being constructed for fundamental research.

Graduate Courses

Glandular and secretory mechanisms of the eye, intraocular fluid dynamics. Physiological and physical properties of the cornea, crystalline lens, and vitreous.

One term, 3 lectures

School of Optometry

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