Objective is to provide such skill and knowledge to the student that shall enable him to practice as an ophthalmic clinician and also to function effectively as a community health leader to assist in the implementation of NPCB programme for prevention of blindness and rehabilitation of the visually impaired. 

The teaching & training will be carried out as per broad syllabus below

 

• Anatomy & physiology

1. 1. Embryology and anatomy
   2. The physiology of the eye
   3. The physiology of vision
   4. The neurology of vision

• Ophthalmic optics

1. 1. Elementary optics
   2. Elementary physiological optics
   3. The determination of the refraction
   4. Resuscitation: artificial respiration.
   5. Errors of refraction
   6. Anomalies of accommodation

• The examination of the eye:Therapeutics

1. 1. External examination
   2. Examination of the fundus.
   3. Examination of retinal function
   4. Examination of retinal function
   5. General therapeutics

• Diseases of the eye

1. 1. Diseases of the conjunctiva
   2. Diseases of the cornea
   3. Diseases of the sclera
   4. Diseases of the uveal tract
   5. Diseases of the vitreous
   6. Glaucoma
   7. Diseases of the retina
   8. Diseases of the optic nerve
   9. Symptomatic disturbances of vision
   10. Intra ocular tumors
   11. Injuries to the eye
   12. Operations upon the eyeball

• Disorders of motility of the eyes

1. 1. Anatomy and physiology of the motor mechanism
   2. Paralytic and kinetic strabismus synkinesis
   3. Concomitant strabismus heterophoria diseases of the adnexa of the eye
   4. Diseases of the lids
   5. Diseases of the lacrimal apparatus
   6. Diseases of the orbit
   7. Ocular manifestations of diseases of the nervous system
   8. Immunopathology of the eye,   (8.1) preventive ophthalmology.
   9. Causes and prevention of blindness
   10. The hygiene of vision
   11. Ocular involvement in AIDS
   12. Eye donation act
   13. Community ophthalmology

• Clinical Examination

1. 1. Anterior segment exam
      1. Torch Light Exam.
      2. 1. Slit lamp exam
   2. Posterior segment exam
      1. Direct ophthalmoscopy
      2. Indirect ophthalmoscopy

• Procedures

1. 1. Schiotz Tonometry
   2. Corneal Staining
   3. Perimetry
   4. Refraction
      1. Subjective.
      2. Objective
   5. Conjunctional Smear Exam.
   6. Prism Bar Cover Test
   7. Gonioscopy
   8. Ultrasonography
      1. a Scan.
      2. b Scan.

• Surgical Skills

Preparation of patient for ophthalmics surgery,an aesthesia and akinesia for eye operations.

1. 1. The Eyelid Surgeries:
      1. Entropion
      2. Ectropion
      3. Chalazion
      4. Stye
      5. Ptosis
      6. Canthotomy
      7. Tarsorrhaphy
      8. Probing
      9. Dacryocystorhinostomy
      10. Dacryocystectomy
   2. Strabismus Surgery
   3. Conjunctiva -Cornea
      1. Pterygium Excision
      2. Peritomy
      3. Keratoplasty
   4. Lens:
      1. Extra capsular cataract extraction with intraoculan lens implementation
      2. Phacoemulsification
      3. Congenital cataract extraction
   5. Antiglaucoma Surgery
   6. Retinal Detachment Surgery
   7. Repair of Perforating Injury
   8. Orbit:
      1. Enucleation
      2. Evisceration
      3. Orbitotomy