This course will provide a fundamental understanding of structural determinants of health and access to care while helping students of the dental, medical, optometry, pharmacy, graduate and health sciences colleges build interprofessional communicable skills. Our modern healthcare field is rife with disparities based on many social and structural differences underlying varying communities. This course aims to give historical context for these differences and disparities while fostering open dialogue and emphasizing patient advocacy for future colleagues in healthcare delivery.

Credits: 1

This course provides an opportunity for optometry students to work with individual faculty mentors on projects of variable scope. Included activities could be library, laboratory, clinical, and/or survey-type research or other activities agreed on between the student and mentor and approved by the appropriate department chair.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course director

Credits: Each course 1-4

These courses serve to enhance the mastery of optometry knowledge, skills, techniques, and concepts. A course in this sequence may be assigned by the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee to a student who has been academically decelerated after receiving a non-passing grade in a required course within the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. The course is assigned for 1- 12 credit hours during the quarter in which the student repeats the failed course. The assigned course will include content previously completed that is deemed critical for success in the Doctor of Optometry curriculum. This is a pass/fail course; letter grades are not assigned. The student who fails to successfully complete the assigned Optometry Competency course will be referred to the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee and may be dismissed from the college.

Prerequisite: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean

Credits: Each course 1-12

This course allows students to pursue their special interests. This may include writing of abstracts or a review of current vision science literature. This may be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course director

Credits: Each course 1-3

This course allows students to understand and apply test-taking strategies in order to increase their success in professional studies.

Prerequisite: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean.

Credits: 2

This is a review course designed to assist students in identifying topic areas that require additional study in preparation for licensing exams.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course director

Credits: 1-3

This course will present various approaches in the evaluation, treatment, and management of patients with ocular surface disease. The utilization of diagnostic testing and the process in selection of appropriate treatment(s) will be introduced. Components of a dry eye evaluation will be discussed including diagnosis, dry eye consultation, home therapy considerations, pharmaceutical interventions, contact lens considerations, procedural heat and light therapy, and surgical approaches.

Prerequisite:: OPTOD 1633 Surgical Management of the Eyelid & Ocular Adnexa

Credits: .5

This course will enhance basic corneal topography and gas permeable (GP) contact lens principles with advanced topics, such as: simulated fluorescein patterns, toric and multifocal corneal GPs, scleral lenses with toric and multifocal options, and standard and dual axis orthokeratology (ortho-K).

Prerequisite:: OPTOD 1750 Contact Lens III

Credits: 1.5

Pediatric Eye Disease This course will review the most common ocular conditions affecting the anterior and posterior segments of the eye in the pediatric population. In addition, common developmental syndromes will be reviewed. The etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management are presented for each condition. Additionally, how these diseases impact various aspects of the child’s quality of life including specific medications, educational services, and the interdisciplinary care involved.

Prerequisite:: OPTOD 1724 Pediatric Optometry

Credits: 1

Individualized supervised clinical experiences to enhance the examination skills of students are the focus of this course. This course may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisite: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, or Dean

Credits: Each course 1-7.5

This course emphasizes the vocabulary associated with the optometric examination. Students are expected to develop basic communication skills in Spanish. This course is intended for students with minimal knowledge of the Spanish language.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course direcctor

Credits: 1.5

This course presents the basics of sports vision evaluation and therapy. The steps involved in performing a comprehensive sports vision examination as well as techniques to evaluate sports-related visual performance will be introduced. Different considerations for sports vision will be discussed, including refractive compensation, prevention and management of ocular injury, assessment and remediation of functional vision inefficiencies, vision enhancement training techniques, and sports vision consultation.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course director

Credits: 0.5

This course explores the visual and ocular effects that occur as a result of acquired traumatic brain injury. The mechanism of the neurological and visual presentation following acquired brain injury is discussed, including primary and secondary injury. The course will explore imaging and electrodiagnostics as diagnostic tools and will cover the staging and implementation of various optometric management and treatment rationales with an emphasis on interdisciplinary care.

Prerequisite: Permission of the course director

Credits: 1

Individualized supervised clinical experiences to enhance the examination skills of students are the focus of this course. This course may be repeated for credit.

Prerequisite: Approval of the Student Promotion and Graduation Committee, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, or Dean

Credits: Each course 1-18