INTERNSHIP
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- SILVIA MANCIOPPI
- Credits
- 3
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/50
Training objectives
- The first experience of internship allows the student to develop his identity as an eye care professional. It starts like a path of guided observation, and it’s the first formative experience in the health workplace.
It allows the student:
- to learn the specific skills and essential rules of the professional profile
- to learn the basis skills useful to observe, identify and describe the vision system
- to familiarise with the health care setting Prerequisites
- Physically suited to perform the internship.
Course programme
- The course forecasts 75 hours, which are shaded as:
-30 hours useful to learn the Orthoptist’s professional ethics and code of conduct, to know and to familiarize with the internship organization, the professionals and the health care setting.
- 45 hours useful to learn the knowledge about the manual and automated perimetry, the physiology of binocular vision and ocular movement, the clinical and medical terminology. Didactic methods
- The module is composed by:
Guide internship. Frontal lectures. Team work. Problem based learning
The internship is done in some placement which are defined by the Orthoptics Course Council. All tutors of each placement, work togheter to planning, to management and to evaluation. Learning assessment procedures
- No exam at first semester
Reference texts
- - Specific topics must be further studied in the following texts:
Teacher’s handouts
Andreson D.R., Patella V.M., Automated static perimetry, Mosby, St.Louis, 1992
Laffi Gl., Scorolli L., Manuale di perimetria automatica, Time Science, Milano 2000
Paliaga G.P., I vizi di refrazione. Diagnosi e correzione, Ed Minerva Medica, Torino 2002
Pedrotti M., Lanzafame F., Drago D., Pedrotti M., Strabismo. Approccio pratico, SOI 2008
Besnard M.J. Ortottica Pratica, Verducci Editore 1980
Autori vari Guida alla professione di ortottista, Città del sole edizioni s.a.s. Messina 2009
Core competence dell’ortottista assistente in oftalmologia, pubblicazione AIOrAO
DL 14 settembre 1994, n. 743 Profilo professionale dell’ortottista assistente in oftalmologia
Codice deontologico ortottisti assistenti in oftalmologia
Dale R.T. Motilità oculare e strabismo, Uses 1988
- Specific topics can be further developed in the following texts:
Teacher’s handouts
Gunter K. von Noorden, Visione binoculare e motilità oculare. Teoria e trattamento dello strabismo, Medical Books, ed 1985
Campos E., Manuale di strabismo, Ed. Ghediuni, 1995
Miglior M., Oftalmologia Clinica, Monduzzi editore
Paliaga GP., L'esame del visus, Ed Minerva Medica Torino 1991
Paliaga GP., L'ambliopia, Ed. Minerva Medica 2003
