Lab: 150 hrs/semester
- Application / calculation exercises in laboratory
- Laboratory assignments
- Independent study
Introduction
- Industry standard charts for multifocals
- Review safety procedures in the laboratory
General overview of surfacing process
Spotting of lenses
- Power verification of multifocal lenses and progressives
- Progressive lens identification and layout
Centration of multifocal and progressive lenses
- Optical centre and major reference point placement
- Segment placement
- Progressive lens placement
Multifocal and progressive lens blocking
- Vertical and horizontal centration
Frame fitting process
- Measurement for multifocal and progressive lenses
- Frame selection
- Frame alignment & adjustment
- Lens insertion
Lens tinting procedures
- Heat tinting of various lens matierials
- Overview of equipment and process
- Dye replacement procedure
- Colour-matching
Basic frame repairs
Digital lenses
- Advantages of digital surface technology
- Fitting requirements and measurements
Low vision
- Introduction to low vision devices
- Functional implications
- Case history assessment
- Continued care plan
Automated refraction
- Introduction to equipment
- Automated refraction process using objective and subjective means
- Automated refraction standards of practice
Advantages of digital surface technology over conventional techniques
- Fitting requirements for digital lenses
- Point-of-wear fitting requirements
Communication and interaction with patients
- Cultural safety and humility
- Patient-provider relationships
- Informed consent
- Patient file documentation
- Appropriate patient referral
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- identify the advantages of lens surfacing
- verify the powers of multifocal and progressive lenses
- calculate vertical and horizontal centration of multifocal and progressive lenses
- block and edge multifocal and progressive lenses
- choose and fit frames appropriately for multifocal wear
- identify and tint various plastic lens materials
- adjust frame designs for patient needs
- perform basic frame repairs
- identify symptoms specific to low vision clients
- discuss and address the social, emotional and physical impact of low vision to a client
- identify appropriate low vision devices and implement a client centred continuing care plan
- perform refraction using automated refraction equipment
- describe the difference between a complete eye health examination and an automated refraction
- compare subjective and objective refraction techniques
- discuss regulatory standards of practice pertaining to automated refraction and eyewear optical tolerances
- discuss cultural safety and humility in opticianry practices
- discuss the history and ongoing effects of colonization on the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, including disparities of power in patient-provider relationships
- describe situations where informed consent may be problematic and take appropriate steps to ensure patient understanding
- adhere to infection prevention and control measures established by jurisdiction and national regulatory bodies
- recognize significant signs and symptoms in relation to the patient's eyes to identify the need for referral
Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Evaluation Policy. The instructor will present a written course outline with specific evaluation criteria at the beginning of the semester. Evaluation will be based on the following:
- Professionalism, preparedness, and attendance 0-5%
- Assignments 10-20%
- Term tests 40-60%
- Final exam 25-30%
Consult the ÌÇÐÄvlog´«Ã½Bookstore for the latest required textbooks and materials. Example textbooks and materials may include:
Brooks and Borish, System for Ophthalmic Dispensing, current edition, Butterworth Heinemann Elsevier.