- Docente: Costantino Schiavi
- Credits: 4
- SSD: MED/30
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance (cod. 8480)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to recognize refractive errors and to correctly use the objective techniques for diagnosing ametropies.
Course contents
Refractive errors: hypermetropia, myopia and astigmatism.
Subjective and objective evaluation of refraction. Principles of cycloplegic refraction: retinoscopy.
Glasses and contact lenses. Effects of refractive errors and glasses on the angle of strabismus.
Measurement of visual acuity in preschool-age children, schoolchildren and adults.
Readings/Bibliography
Gian Paolo Paliaga: I vizi di refrazione. IV edizione. Minerva Medica, 2008.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures.
Assessment methods
Final oral examination.
Teaching tools
Slide and video projection.
Office hours
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