Ophthalmology (OPHT)

Prerequisites: Medical school third year standing. Medical students learn to provide primary eye care and should be able to measure and record visual acuity, evaluate a red or traumatized eye, detect abnormal eye movements and pupillary responses, perform direct ophthalmoscopy to detect abnormalities of the optic disc and posterior ocular fundus, and initiate appropriate management and/or physican referal.

An introduction to Ophthalmology. Students will observe and participate in outpatient and inpatient services, observe surgery, and attend clinical and basic science courses and conferences.

Elective - the student will be responsible for a limited number of specimens in the ophthalmic pathology laboratory, perform the gross examination of specimens and prepare a histo-pathology report. This experience will highlight the interface between ophthalmic pathology and clinical ophthalmology. The student will see private patients in consultation under close supervision.

Elective - This elective is for students interested in ophthalmology as a career. The student will assist in patient care with private attending physicians in the offices of the department of ophthalmology and/or in the private offices of affiliated attending physicians. The student will be an active member of the team, and will examine patients and assist in eye surgery when practical.

The student will take part in all of the clinical activities of the neurophthalmology service including the examination, diagnosis and treatment of neurophthalmologic conditions. Attendance at neurophthalmology lectures, conferences and related teaching sessions is included.

The course will combine highly structured didactic and hands-on clinical components with defined educational objectives including examination skills transfer. The didactic portion will utilize multimedia materials produced specifically for medical student and non-ophthalmologist physician education. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation and management of visual problems frequently encountered in primary care.

An introduction to ophthalmology. Students will observe and participate in outpatient and inpatient services, observe surgery, and attend clinical and basic science courses and conferences.

Prerequisites: Approval of Visiting School and OU Department Course Director. May be repeated; maximum credit 320 hours. An off-campus elective is defined as work not at the Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine-Tulsa, or in a formally statement from the course director of the proposed elective concerning the supervision and grading of student's experience and a detailed course description of the proposed elective are required.

Work not at the Health Sciences Center or Tulsa Medical College.

Prerequisites: None. May be repeated with change of subject matter, multiple enrollment in same term, maximum 320 clock hours. Topics of a special nature or of unusual interest to the individual student.

May be repeated with change of subject matter. Topics of a special nature or of unusual interest to the individual student.