67620 - MALATTIE APPARATO VISIVO

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student will possess knowledge, to the extent of his/her competence, relating to the field of physiopathology and clinical conditions of diseases of the visual system in pediatric and adult age; knows the fundamentals of functional and instrumental semiotics and of ophthalmological methodology and therapy with particular regard to emergency pathologies.

Course contents

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

Readings/Bibliography

Kansky Jack I., Oftalmologia Clinica, EDRA MASSON 2017

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures in presence or 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