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Emergency in ophthalmology

Code: OPT116     Acronym: UO

Keywords
Classification Keyword
OFICIAL Medicine

Instance: 2022/2023 - 2S Ícone do Moodle

Active? No
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 0 Plano Oficial 2021 5 - 2 19 54

Teaching Staff - Responsibilities

Teacher Responsibility
Manuel Alberto de Almeida e Sousa Falcão

Teaching - Hours

Theoretical classes: 0,21
Traineeship: 1,14

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives


  1. Identification, diagnosis and treatment of the most common conditions observed in an Ophthalmological emergency room

  2. Identification of severe conditions that require referral of these patients

Learning outcomes and competences

The aim of this unit is to give the knowledge’s necessary to the identification of the main causes of eye emergency that come to an ophthalmology unit.

This knowledge’s will train the students to identify the most frequent causes of these conditions and to identify its severity and referral criteria as well as the basic measures that have to be administrated in these situations for a secure procedure and referral.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Attended and completed the Ophthalmology curricular unit

Program

Ophthalmological emergencies

  1. Differential diagnosis of red eye

1.1 Corneal disease

1.2 Inflammatory and infectious conditions

1.3 Anterior, intermediate and posterior uveitis

1.4 Scleral diseases

1.5 Acute glaucoma

  1. Eye trauma
  2. Eyelids and lacrimal system diseases
  3. Sudden and progressive vision loss
  1. Diagnosis, treatment and referral criteria of the most current ocular emergency conditions

Mandatory literature

Bagheri, Wajda, Calvo, A Durrani; The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease, 7th Ed, Wolters Kluwer, 2015
Brad Bowling; Clinical Ophthalmology: a systematic approach, Elsevier, 2015

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-practical lessons (4h) and clinical training (15). Thoretical practical lessons 60 minutes each.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation Weight (%)
Participação presencial 40,00
Exame 60,00
Total: 100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo 35,00
Frequência das aulas 19,00
Total: 54,00

Eligibility for exams

10

Calculation formula of final grade

(Result of the exam x 0.6) + (Clinical Practice x 0.4)

 

 

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The TE, DA, ..., will be evaluated on the same exams together with the regular students of the same semester.

      Specific situations will be discussed in a case by case fashion.

 

Observations

Attended and completed the Ophthalmology curricular unit

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