Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

OPT 613 — Refractive Errors

OPT department course · Nigerian universities

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

• discuss the human eye as an optical system and principles of refractive errors, myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia; 142
• describe the spectacle corrections of refractive errors
• explain the need for low vision rehabilitation; and
• define blindness and visual impairment

Course contents

Human eye as an optical system. Emmetropia. Principles of common refractive errors and corrections, myopia, hypermetropia, astigmatism, presbyopia. Physiology of accommodation. Low vision rehabilitation.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study OPT 613.

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