ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 10 Expository Class: 8 Interactive Classroom: 22 Total: 40
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Optics
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The student must be able to:
+ Advise on the most appropriate lenses and frames according to the prescription.
+ Assemble, adjust and adapt the different models of glasses on the market.
+ Detect and correct the origin of the users' problems and adaptation difficulties.
+ Offer solutions or alternatives to overcome these problems.
In general, the classes will cover the specific content and information corresponding to the week's practical session. In addition, common topics will be addressed, such as:
+ Frame fitting and adjustment
+ Choosing the most appropriate lenses and frames according to the prescription
+ Lens optimization: Standard, sharp, and precalibrated lenses
+ Influence of fitting errors on the optical quality of compensation. Possible solutions
The proposed practical sessions, which will be held in two-and-a-half-hour sessions, include eight of the following (not necessarily in this order):
1. Fitting single-vision astigmatic lenses in a metal frame.
2. Fitting single-vision astigmatic lenses in a plastic frame. Cold fitting.
3. Fitting single-vision astigmatic lenses in a plastic frame. Fitting with a vent.
4. Fitting prismatic effects due to decentration.
5. Guided fitting with a bevel (or slot)
6. Nylon thread eyeglass fitting
7. Metal-foil eyeglass fitting
8. Progressive lens fitting
9. Bifocal lens fitting
10. Three-piece eyeglass fitting
Material availability can vary slightly the sessions, or the order they are carried out.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY;
+ A. Benito Galindo e E.A. Villegas Ruiz, Montaje y aplicaciones de Lentes oftálmicas, Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, 2001.
+ C.W. Brooks, Essentials of Ophthalmic Lens Finishing, ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, St. Louis 2003.
+ C.W. Brooks, I.M. Borish System for Ophthalmic Dispensing, 2nd ed., ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996.
+ A.H. Tunnacliffe, Essentials of dispensing, The Association of British Dispensing Opticians, Londres 1998 (2ª ed).
+ H. Obstfeld, Spectacle Frames and their Dispensig, ed. Saunders Co. Ltd. 1997.
+ Rodríguez Martínez J.I., Adaptación de monturas, ed. USC (2015)
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
+ A.H. Tunnacliffe, Introduction to viual optics, The Association of British Dispensing Opticians, Londres 1993 (4ª ed.).
+ M. Jalie, Ophthalmic Lenses & Dispensing, Butterworth-Heinemann, Edinburgh 2003. 2ª ed.
+ M. Jalie, The Principles of Ophthalmic Lenses. ABDO, London, 2021, 6ª edition.
+ J. Salvado e M. Fransoy, Tecnología Óptica. Lentes oftálmicas, diseño y adaptación. Ed. UPC, Barcelona 1997.
+ Fannin, T. E. e Grosvenor, T.P. Óptica clínica. 2ª ed. Barcelona: Omega, (2007)
+ Catálogos e publicacións técnicas de fabricantes e distribuidores e artigos de publicacións periódicas.
Knowledge:
• Con_78. Understanding the fundamentals for optimal fitting to users of optical prescriptions.
Skills and Abilities:
• HyD_1. Thinking in an integrated manner and approaching problems from different perspectives with critical reasoning.
• HyD_2. Organizing and planning work.
• HyD_3. Interpreting results and identifing consistent and inconsistent elements.
• HyD_4. To work as a team.
• HyD_5. To maintain an ethical commitment, as well as a commitment to equality and inclusion.
• HyD_50. Assembling, adjusting, and adapting the different eyewear models on the market.
• HyD_51. Detecting and correcting the source of problems and difficulties in fitting users.
Competencies:
• Comp_1. Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues.
• Comp_3. Students will have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.
• Comp_21. Provide solutions or alternatives to adaptation problems for users of optical prescriptions.
In the classroom, the week's practical will be presented, along with other topics specified in the content section. Students will also receive the necessary materials to complete the practical.
During the practical sessions, the instructor will demonstrate the student's work. The student will then complete the practical under the instructor's supervision. The student must self-assess the final result before presenting it to the instructor. The instructor will conduct a final evaluation in front of the student, primarily indicating how to correct any errors, problems, or defects detected.
We will use the Virtual Campus as a documentation repository and a communication channel between students and instructor.
Languages used in the classroom: Galician.
The student will make a written examination of the contents of the subject, and take into account their daily performance in the workshop.
The student's final grade is the weighted average of grades received in each of the eight practical sessions (10%) (practices have not made a score of zero) and the theoretical test (20%).
Students who do not arrive so that approved, will make a practical test in the second chance.
STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE at least six of the eight proposed practicals during the scheduled term to be assessed on either occasion.
Students who do not complete this minimum number of practicals will be considered "no presentado".
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply.
In-person work:
Expository teaching: 8 hours
Workshop practice: 20 hours
Small group tutoring: 10 hours
Exam: 2 hours
Student personal work: 72.5 hours
Total: 112.5 hours
Review of the knowledge acquired in Ophthalmic Optics I, II, and III.
Take advantage of tutorials to ask questions and clarify doubts.
Do not memorize prescriptions, but always understand what you are doing.
Attend classes before each practical session.
Actively participate in the workshop's practical sessions.
Students are advised to closely observe fashions, trends, markets, and developments in the field of ophthalmic lenses, sunglasses, and eyeglass frames. This will allow them to address the most diverse and innovative aspects of these products in class with the instructor and classmates, primarily with a view to anticipating and solving potential assembly and/or adaptation problems.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply.
Xesus Prieto Blanco
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813506
- xesus.prieto.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Yago Arosa Lobato
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.arosa.lobato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
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