Course Overview
The degree course in Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance is part of the three-year single-cycle courses and has the purpose of preparing, (health professionals of the rehabilitation area, Law 10 August 2000, n. 251, article 3, paragraph 1) carrying out activities aimed at prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and functional assessment procedures with professional ownership and autonomy, in order to carry out the skills required by the relevant professional profile.
This is accomplished through a training course aimed at learning all the elements necessary to carry out orthotic rehabilitation treatments in ocular motility and binocular vision disorders, rehabilitation of visual function handicaps and to be able to perform instrumental semeiology techniques and ophthalmology.
The CdL aims to make students acquire individual communication skills with other health professionals, with socio-sanitary and administrative structures. The acquisition of communication skills is developed during the course of study within the various training activities during the course of lessons, interviews, exams, discussions with the teacher or tutor and during seminars. It is verified through written or multimedia works, oral exhibitions, participation in working groups and seminars.
The achievement of professional skills is achieved through a practical training activity, individual and in a group, addressed both to the clinical operation on the patient and to the updating ability deriving from the consultation of scientific texts and journals and from the computer skills and use of the Web.
They will be able to acquire integrated skills in the field of pathophysiology of binocular vision and the clinical pictures related to it in the various phases of the life cycle (developmental, adulthood and geriatric age); they will have acquired the skills necessary for the planning and organization of the human communication enabling and rehabilitation services in hospitals, outpatient settings and in the various public and private facilities of the NHS, as well as in schools; they will be able to carry out didactic and educational activities both towards users and other health and psycho-pedagogical operators. The degree of learning will be assessed through oral and / or written exams and practical tests.
Graduates in Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance can carry out freelance activities in private health facilities and / or affiliated with the NHS, or in a dependency regime at public health facilities (AUSL, Az.Ospedaliere, Az.Osp-Univers.)