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About Study Course

Credit points / ECTS:2 / 3
Course supervisor:Guna Laganovska
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Medicine
Language:English, Latvian
Branch of science:Clinical Medicine; Ophthalmology

Objective

To provide opportunities for students to acquire in-depth knowledge and understanding of the further eye investigation techniques and relation of ophthalmic diseases to other diseases. The students acquire skills of fundoscopic examination, refraction test and they learn how to develop their microsurgical skills using the anterior part surgical simulator.

Prerequisites

Anatomy, biology, physics and physiology.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

On successful completion of the course the students will have acquired in-depth knowledge and will be able to describe additional eye investigation techniques and to explain relation of ophthalmic diseases to other diseases.

Skills

On successful course completion the students will be able to:
• perform a refraction test;
• perform cataract surgery using anterior part surgical simulator.

Competence

On successful completion of the study course programme the student will be ready to work with ophthalmic patients in General Practitioner’s surgery and to continue their further studies. The students will be able to take care of ophthalmic patients in GP’s surgery in compliance with ethical and legal aspects, to evaluate the judgement of an ophthalmologist and to plan the examination and treatment of a patient; to interpret the results of ophthalmic examination, to relate these results to the specific clinical situation and to link them with the joint examination process.

Study course planning

Planning period:Year 2024, Spring semester
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