Ophthalmology

Code:

MI438

Acronym:

OFTAL

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Surgery and Physiology Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	133	Plano Oficial 2021	4	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To show the students the extent of the eye specialists' professional performance.

To stimulate the choice for a professional career as an eye specialist by the students who feel a vocation for the scientific-professional area of Ophthalmology.

To transmit basic notions that allows future doctors to contribute to the screening, diagnosis and treatment of the main ocular diseases

Learning outcomes and competences

The program develops through nine thematic groups. Each thematic group is concerned with an ocular pathology or group of pathologies that are the foundation of the sub-specialties of the modern Ophthalmology. Trying to introduce the theme for a lecture at the beginning of a day, to allow the student to make direct contact with the pathology and with the multiplicity of the disease approaches in medicine and laboratorial practices, and in a practical session performed latter in the day, the student is stimulated to discuss in a group what he/she has had the opportunity to observe and to question the Assistant Professor about subjects raised by the daily activity. The theme is expected to integrate the teaching/learning process, the theoretical knowledge with the main attitudes and specific Ophthalmologic skills.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Visual acuity assessment. Refractive errors;

Red eye (differential diagnosis between the most frequent and the most severe red eye syndromes; diagnosis and therapeutics; referral criteria);

Glaucoma (pathophysiology, classification, workout, therapeutic options and prognosis);

Cataract (pathophysiology, classification, workout exams, therapeutic options and prognosis );

Strabismus and pediatricophthalmology. Ambliopia, ambliogenic conditions (therapeutic options and  prophylactic attitudes);

Fundoscopy. Identification of the normal and pathologic fundus appearance. Fundoscopy in the major retina diseases (diabetic retinopathy, age related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases, retinal detachment and hypertensive retinopathy);

Neuroftalmology: fundoscopic evaluation of the optic nerve head. Evaluation and interpretation of the light pupillary reflex. Optic pathway lesions and its visual field repercussion.

Ocular oncology. Diseases of the orbit, eyelids and lacrimal system.

Mandatory literature

Kanski, J. J., & Bowling, B. ; Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology, Expert Consult-Online and Print, 3: Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology, Elsevier Health Sciences
Whitcher, J., & Riordan-Eva, P; Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, McGraw-Hill Publishing., 2011

Complementary Bibliography

Bradford, C. A. ; Basic Ophthalmology for Medical Students and Primary Care Residents, 1999

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes:              7

Theoretical and practical : 7

Tutorials:                 12

Seminar:                 2

Traineeship:           10

                 

Information will be complemented by availability of content and exercises on the platform of e-learning of the masters program

Assessment methods:

Final classification between 0 and 20 values:

Multiple choice question test - 16 values;

Continuous Assessment - 4 values;

Minimum classification for approval - 10 values.

1. Classes Attendance:

75% attendance to all classes is obligatory.

1. Final grade:

Final classification = Multiple choice question test + Continuous Assessment

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	80,00
Participação presencial	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	53,00
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

75% attendance to all classes is obligatory.

Calculation formula of final grade

Multiple choice test:

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students with special status, if unable to attend practical classes, will have the possibility to take practical exam with teachers of Ophthalmology.