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About Study Course

ECTS:12
Course supervisor:Guna Laganovska
Study type:Full time
Course level:Doctor
Target audience:Medicine
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Clinical medicine; Ophthalmology

Objective

Prepare doctors, who will be able to examine and treat patients with lens diseases.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Doctors will know: Etiopathogenesis of glaucoma and lens deseases, diagnostic and treatment methods; Intraocular correction types, indications and principles of choice.

Skills

1.Doctors will be able to:
• Do a subconjunctival injection
• Do a subtenon and parabulbar injection
• Do cataract surgery (different stages)
• Choose an IOL
• Do computerized perimetry
• Do glaucoma surgery - sinusotrabeculectomy (different stages)
• Choose suitable antiglaucoma therapy, taking in consideration the results of eye structural and functional examination

Competence

1.To evaluate, examine and treat cataract and glaucoma according to modern ophthalmology requirements.