06609 - Orthoptics

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Emilio Campos
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: MED/30
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthoptics and Assistance in Ophthalmology (for certified professional orthoptists and assistants in ophthalmology) (cod. 0163)

Learning outcomes

Adequate knowledge of comitant forms of strabismus; re-evalaution of laws of ocular moitlity and their applicaitons to pathology; classification, pathoghenesis and treatment of esophoria, esotropia, exophoria and exotropia.

Course contents

Diagnostic methods: sensory fusion, motor fusion, stereopsis, diplopia, confusion, suppression, anomalous retinal correspondence

Readings/Bibliography

Campos E.C. - "Strabismo: manuale di diagnosi e terapia" - Ed. Bononia University Press, 2003.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Video projection of slides and movies

Office hours

See the website of Emilio Campos