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OPTICIAN / CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

The HND specialty Optician aims to train professionals to combat the low vision and avoidable blindness. These professionals are responsible for correcting visual defects with glasses and administering emergency eye care.

Generic Skills

  • Be responsible and reflective;
  • Have gestural skills and interpersonal skills;
  • Recognize your emotions and use them with the necessary professional skills;
  • Have proven trust and confidence;
  • Have critical ability and questioning;
  • Develop an ethical and a professional normal;
  • make thoughtful decisions;
  • Act with autonomy and responsibility in the well-defined fields of its function;
  • Master the management (financial, stock, human resources), marketing and standards opposite the regulations in force for the best monitoring of activities in law firms;
  • Being able to communicate easily both in writing and orally;
  • Master the computer tool and ICT.

Specific skills

    The control of refraction (visual examination)
  • Adapt the prescription and establish the formula of the optical equipment;
  • Propose and evaluate solutions (in terms of compensation protection Ŕ performance ...);
  • Perform visual examination and low vision tests;
  • Find an anomaly and refer to another health professional;
  • Communicate, ensure and develop relations with health professionals.

    • Sales Technician - Marketing
  • Welcome, inquire about needs and provide information;
  • Prepare the sale;
  • Analyze the morphology, the posture, the face of the client;
  • Analyze the visual needs of the client (prescription use customer's wishes);
  • carry out the preliminary tests, put in condition of use and take the measurements (spectacles, specific equipments);
  • Design the equipment (glasses, specific equipment);
  • Propose and choose the equipment (glasses, specific equipment);
  • Write the execution sheet;
  • Perform the preliminary tests, put in condition of use and take the measures (low vision, contact lenses);
  • Propose, advise and sell optical instruments (visual aids, microscopes, binoculars,telescopes, terrestrial and astronomical spectacles);
  • Propose, advise and sell accessories and optics maintenance products.

    • Equipment mounting technique
  • Knowledge of workshop equipment;
  • Composition and characteristics of the grinding wheels;
  • Characteristics of the different types of grinding wheels (hand grinding wheels, creasing machines, grinding machines, automatic grinding wheels);
  • The different programs for cutting glasses;
  • Food ;
  • Water circuit ;
  • Waste disposal ;
  • Precautions for use;
  • Routine maintenance and consumables.

    • Centering and focusing glasses
  • Centering mode (manual-pointing engraving Ŕ automatic;
  • References according to glasses;
  • References according to the measurements;
  • Transcription of measures;
  • Fixing the glass;
  • Choice of the adapted support.

    • Drilling - notching
  • Different types of drills;
  • Position of the holes notching;
  • Fixing systems.

    • Assembly of glasses
  • Preliminary checks;
  • Axing, horizontality of the glasses;
  • Condition of the frame (meniscage);
  • Choice of material adapted (to the type of frame and the type of glasses).

    • Rebuilding
  • Following a protocol adapted to the frame and glasses;
  • According to the recommendations requested (pre-adjustment);
  • Prepare the equipment for delivery.

    • Repair, Maintenance
  • Metal frames;
  • Plastic frames;
  • Ice frames (Nylon, breakthrough).

  • Public function;
  • Hospitals and private clinics;
  • NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations);
  • Self-employment;
  • Occupational Medicine ;
  • Research and training

Semester 1

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

Specialty:         OPTICIAN /          CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

 

Code

 

Courses titles

Hourly Volume

Number

Of Credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses 30% (2 UC) 9 credits 135 hours

OPT111

Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye I

54

18

13

5

90

6

OPT112

Mathematics-physical-chemistry

30

10

0

5

45

3

Professional Courses 60% (4 UC) 18 credits 270 hours

 

OPT113

General       knowledge       on        the profession, Care Primary Ocular

 

45

 

15

 

10

 

5

 

75

 

5

OPT114

Geometrical optics and Physics I

30

10

0

5

45

3

 

OPT115

Optometry  the  theoretical  and  the practical

 

30

 

13

 

13

 

4

 

60

 

4

 

OPT116

Internship    of    impregnation    in    a cabinet of optics

 

2 weeks

 

90

 

6

Transversals Courses 10% (1 UC) 3 credits 45 hours

OPT117

Bilingual Training

28

8

5

5

45

3

Total

 

218

72

135

25

450

30

Semester 2

 

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

Specialty:         OPTICIAN /           CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

 

Code

 

Courses titles

Hourly Volume

Number of Credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses 30% (2 UC) 9 credits 135 hours

OPT121

Physics II and Chemistry II

40

10

6

4

60

4

OPT122

Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye II

45

15

9

6

75

5

Professional Courses 60% (4 UC) 18 credits 270 hours

OPT123

General Optical and geometric II

30

9

3

3

45

3

OPT124

Study of the optical systems

40

10

6

4

60

4

OPT125

Knowledge of teachingmaterials

48

15

7

5

75

5

OPT126

Internshipadvancedacademic

2 weeks

90

6

Transversals Courses 10% (1 UC) 3 credits 45 hours

OPT127

First Aid and Eye care of emergency

30

9

3

35

45

3

Total

 

233

68

124

25

450

30

Semester 3

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

Specialty:OPTICIAN /CLINICALOPTOMETRY

 

Code

 

courses titles

Hourly Volume

Number of Credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses 30% (2 Courses) 9 credits 135 hours

OPT231

Eye Care Primary

36

12

8

4

60

4

 

OPT232

Consultation      and       Review      of objective view

 

45

 

15

 

9

 

6

 

75

 

5

Professional Courses 60% (4 Courses) 18 credits 270 hours

OPT233

Review of subjective view I

45

15

9

6

75

5

OPT234

Hygiene and Public Health

18

6

4

2

30

2

OPT235

Review of subjective view II

35

20

15

5

75

5

 

OPT236

Practice   of   consultation   of   mass

(school-village)

 

2 weeks

 

90

 

6

Transversals Courses 10% (1 Courses) 3 credits 45 hours

 

OPT237

Education on ethics, citizenship, and

ICTS

 

30

 

9

 

3

 

3

 

45

 

3

Total

 

219

72

132

27

450

30

Semester 4

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

Specialty:OPTICIAN / CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

 

Code

 

Courses titles

Hourly Volume

Number

of Credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses 30% (2 UC) 9 credits 135 hours

 

OPT241

Eye   Care   developed,   Review   of subjective view III

 

50

 

19

 

12

 

9

 

90

 

6

OPT242

Mathematics-physical-chemistry

30

7

2

6

45

3

Professional Courses 60% (4 UC) 18 credits 270 hours

OPT243

-Optical contact, objective Refraction

45

15

9

6

75

5

OPT244

Low Vision

18

6

4

2

30

2

OPT245

Reviewadvanced subjective

27

15

30

3

75

5

OPT246

Professional practice

2 weeks

90

6

Transversals Courses 10% (1UC) 3 credits 45 hours

 

OPT247

Introduction     to      Research     and

Biostatistics

 

30

 

9

 

3

 

3

 

45

 

3

Total

 

200

71

150

29

450

30

Semester 5

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

SPECIALTY:OPTICIAN /CLINICAL OPTOMETRY

 

Code

 

Courses titles

 

Hourly Volume

 

Number of credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses30% (2 Courses) 9 credits 135 hours

 

OPT351

Economy    and     Management    of company I

 

50

 

12

 

10

 

3

 

75

 

5

 

OPT352

Economics           and            BuNUSess

Management II

 

45

 

8

 

4

 

3

 

60

 

4

Professional Courses 60% (4 Courses) 18 credits 270 hours

 

OPT353

Research  and  presentation  of  the

Protocol

 

 

28

 

 

2

 

30

 

2

 

OPT354

Follow-up of the research and field work I

 

2 weeks

 

75

 

5

 

OPT355

Follow-up of the research and field work II

 

2 weeks

 

75

 

5

OPT356

AcademicInternship

2 weeks

90

6

TransversalsCourses 10% (1 Course) 3 credits 45 hours

 

OPT357

Teaching      of      Languages      and acquisition of competence in ICT

 

26

 

3

 

10

 

6

 

45

 

3

Total

 

121

51

264

14

450

30

Semester 6

Field : Medical and Biomedical Sciences

Specialty: OPTICIAN/ Clinical OPTOMETRY

 

 

Code

 

 

Courses titles

 

Hourly Volume

 

Number of credits

L

T

P

SPW

Total

Fundamental Courses 30% (2 Courses) 9 credits 135 hours

 

OPT361

Research  and  presentation  of  the

Protocol

 

 

28

 

 

2

 

30

 

2

OPT362

Research

To define

105

 

Professional Courses 60% (4 Courses) 18 credits 270 hours

OPT363

Professional internship I

2 weeks

75

5

OPT364

Professional internship II

2 weeks

75

5

OPT365

Professional internship III

2 weeks

75

5

OPT366

Project Defense

To define

45

3

TransversalsCourses 10% (1 Course) 3 credits 45 hours

 

OPT367

 

Professional  Ethics and Deontology

 

30

 

9

 

3

 

3

 

45

 

3

Total

 

30

37

378

5

450

30

 

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