SMEA09025U Optional Clinical Course in Ophthalmology in English

Volume 2013/2014
Education
Kandidatuddannelsen i medicin
Msc in Medicine
Content
The purpose of the course is to enable the student to:
  • Diagnose the acute/subacute life-threatening conditions and blindness
  • Diagnose and treat the most common infectious and allergic eye diseases
  • Diagnose the more common eye diseases and be informed about their treatment
  • Assess the eye diseases that can be prevented by timely action
  • Explain the requirements for visual function in the context of motoring and vocational activities
  • Explain the way eye diseases manifest themselves in the case of disease elsewhere in the body
  • Explain the overall scope of the subject and areas for development in future
Certificates for the Clinical Course in Psychiatry including Children and Youth Psychiatry and the Clinical Course in Social Medicine and Rehabilitation; passes in the Exam in Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Anaesthesiology, the OSCE in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Anaesthesiology, Health Legislation, and Diagnostics, and the Exam in Medical Sociology
Practical training in clinical departments, lectures and classroom instruction
The course will be assessed by the "exam in Ophthalmology in English" (SMEA09013E)
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 26
  • Lectures
  • 10
  • Total
  • 36
Credit
2,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Portfolio
Course participation
Compulsory components: See logbook
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Criteria for exam assesment

To obtain approval for the logbook and thereby gain a course certificate the student must be able to:

  • Diagnose the acute/subacute life-threatening conditions and blindness
  • Diagnose and treat the most common infectious and allergic eye diseases
  • Diagnose the more common eye diseases and be informed about their treatment
  • Assess the eye diseases that can be prevented by timely action
  • Explain the requirements for visual function in the context of motoring and vocational activities
  • Explain the way eye diseases manifest themselves in the case of disease elsewhere in the body

Explain the overall scope of the subject and areas for development in future

Criteria for approved course attendance: Course certificate on the basis of approved participation in teaching and an approved logbook