LibGuides: Basic Visual Optics &amp; Applied Visual Optics: Applied Visual Optics (BSAV613)

Course Content

1. Corrective Lenses
2. Ocular and spectacle refraction
3. Convergence & divergence
4. Visual fields
5. Causes of refractive errors
6. Objective measurement of visual acuity
7. Uses of prisms
8. Optics of Low Vision Devices
9. Retinoscopy – Principles and methods
10. Heterophoria and heterotropia

Reference Books

Fundamentals and Principles of Ophthalmology
The Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) is designed to meet the needs of residents
and practitioners for a comprehensive yet concise curriculum of the field of ophthalmology. Each volume of the BCSC is designed as an independent study activity for ophthalmology
residents and practitioners. The Basic and Clinical Science Course has expanded greatly over the years, with the addition of much new text, numerous illustrations, and video content.
Clinical anatomy of the eye
Clinical Anatomy of the Eye has proved to be a very popular textbook for ophthalmologists and optometrists in training all over the world. The objective of the book is to provide the reader with the basic knowledge of anatomy necessary to practice ophthalmology. It is recognised that this medical speciality requires a detailed knowledge of the eyeball and the surrounding structures. The specialist's knowledge should include not only gross anatomic features and their development, but also the microscopic anatomy of the eyeball and the ocular appendages.

Learning Objectives

To introduce the range of clinical optometry work and will cover both objective and
subjective examination methods. The Course will teach the theory of, and examination with,
ophthalmoscopy, Retinoscopy and other methods for objective assessment of refractive
error, subjective techniques for assessing visual acuity and the subjective procedures of fan
&block and cross cylinder.