20734 - Visual Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students know the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of the main diseases of the visual system in children and adults; moreover, students know the basis of functional and instrumental semeiotics and the principles of ophthalmic therapy, especially relating to emergencies.

Course contents

Pathology of the orbit and adnexa; eyelid pathology; the red eye: conjunctivities and keratities; open angle and closed angle glaucoma; cataracts; uveities; vitreous and vitreo-retinal diseases; macular disease; optic nerve disease; ocular motility disorders. Assistance to the ophthalmic patient.

Readings/Bibliography

Kansky Jack I., Oftalmologia Clinica, EDRA MASSON 2017

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures in presence and remotely via the Teams platform.

Assessment methods

The learning assessment focuses on a written quiz test, with 15 multiple choice questions in 15 minutes. The Ophthalmology test will be considered passed if the student correctly answers at least 9 questions. Tools such as calculation aids, dictionaries etc. cannot be used. Registration for the exam takes place online on Alma Esami.

Teaching tools

Slide and video projection.

Office hours

See the website of Costantino Schiavi

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.