Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

OPT 598 — Externship and SIWES

OPT department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• demonstrate more confidence in taking case history and attending to patients
• improve on how to use retinoscopy for objective refraction
• improve on how to perform subjective refraction
• explain cup to disk ratio grading with ophthalmoscopy
• conduct diagnosis of external eye conditions especially different types of red eye and treatment options
• arrive at and write spectacle prescription for patients

Course contents

OPT 598 (Externship and SIWES): The course is for six months (i.e, 500 Level 2 nd Semester and Long vacation) covering industrial and clinical attachment and rotation for ophthalmic care, optical laboratory and dispensing experience in solo/group practice, as well as in optometric instrumentation and patient care provided in hospital, or…

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study OPT 598.

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