LEARNING OUTCOMES
The Undergraduate Internship is performed in 4 months in the last semester of studies (8th). Its completion will help in the faster and more immediate integration of the graduate in the labor market. Its purpose is to offer students, before graduation, the opportunity to apply in practice and in real conditions of practice of the profession, what has been taught during the theoretical and laboratory teaching in the field of Optics & Optometry.
The Undergraduate Internship offers students of the Department of Optics & Optometry the acquisition of substantial contact with the real working environment of the optical companies, the modern private ophthalmology centers, and the ophthalmology clinics of public hospitals in order to apply their knowledge based on curriculum of the Department. The clinical internship is a course of the curriculum that brings students in direct contact with their future workplace and at the same time connects education with the productive actors of the field. The internship contributes to the better utilization of the knowledge and skills acquired by the students during their studies, and to the integration of the graduates in the production, and creates a two-way communication between the Department and the employment agencies. It is a way of connecting theory with practice.
The internship is carried out in selected bodies of the Public & Private sector such as optical companies and ophthalmological centers that are active in cognitive objects related to the scientific orientation of the Department of Optics & Optometry.
Students can be employed in companies with an object of employment completely related to that of the subject of the profession of an Optician- Optometrist (Optical stores- Ophthalmology centersOphthalmology clinics of public hospitals).
Upon completion of the Undergraduate Internship the students will be able to:
- establish optical stores, to be health managers of an optical store and in general to exercise all the applicable professional rights of Opticians
- fit contact lenses
- carry out, under the supervision of an ophthalmologist, objective and subjective eye examinations, with the aim of refractive examination of the eyes, tests of binocular function, tests for
- color vision and visual fields, as well as coarse control of eye health and the integrity of the eyes
- follow an ophthalmologist’s prescription to dispense eyeglasses, low vision aids or other similar equipment, such as optometric or orthopedic exercise programs to acquire and improve
- visual impairments on a case-by-case basis.
- work in Public or private sector in any possible or emerging place of exercise of his professional rights. work in Public and private education.
SYLLABUS
The Undergraduate Internship is performed in 4 months in the last semester of studies (8th). Its
completion will help in the faster and more immediate integration of the graduate in the labor market.
During the Undergraduate Internship the students:
take part in all stages of construction and dispensing of ophthalmic lenses in ophthalmic frames
fit contact lenses
perform, under the supervision of an ophthalmologist, objective and subjective eye examinations, with the aim of refractive examination of the eyes, tests of binocular function, tests of color vision and visual fields, as well as coarse control of eye health and the integrity of the eyes.
execute an ophthalmologist’s prescription to dispense eyeglasses, low vision aids or other similar equipment, such as optometric or orthopedic exercise programs to acquire and improve visual impairments on a case-by-case basis.