UIWSO Curriculum

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Hey does anyone have any information about UIWSO's curriculum? I remember some of the classes Mr. Cantu talked about during the interview but I was wondering if their was an actual class/curriculum list floating around.

Thanks in advance😎

 

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.Curriculum Overview.

First Professional Year highlights:

• Basic & Intermediate Optometry course sequence (fundamental theory and technical skills of optometric examination and history taking)
• Optics (Principal, geometric, visual and applied) course series..
• Basic Sciences with clinical emphasis: Clinical gross, ocular and neuro-anatomy, Histology, Clinical human Physiology, Histopathology, Immunology and ocular biochemistry/molecular biology.
• Vision Science
• Orientation to patient care, ethics and healthcare systems

Second Professional Year highlights:

• Advanced Optometry
• Clinical and applied Pharmacology
• Ocular Sciences (e.g. ocular physiology, ocular pharmacology, binocular vision, vision science)
• Ocular and organ pathology (e.g. anterior/posterior ocular pathology)
• Clinical studies (Pediatric Optometry, Contact Lens)
• Regular involvement in patient care: Clinical Internships

Third Professional Year highlights:

• Twelve-months of concentrated clinical activities in UIWSO's clinical facilities and clinical outreach programs.
• Patient Care Integrated Case analysis
• Clinical medicine and Physical diagnosis
• Ocular disease studies (Glaucoma, advanced posterior ocular pathology, neuro-ophthalmic diseases)
• Further clinical studies (strabismus, vision therapy, advanced contact lens, low vision)
• Optometric Business aspects and coding/billing
• Optometric law and Jurisprudence

Fourth Professional Year Highlights:

• Twelve-month of rigorous involvement in patient care (rotations in the following services: adult primary, pediatrics, contact lens, low vision rehabilitation, vision therapy and advanced disease)
• Further studies in advanced clinical and practice management
• Clinical Internship & Externship rotation at clinical facilities such as private practices, referral centers, veterans affairs medical centers, and optometric clinics in military installations.