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VECT 1420 - Ophthalmic Dispensing I


Credit hours: 4

Prerequisites: VECT 1410 - Introduction to Vision Care Technology  

Course Description:
A continuation of Introduction to Vision Care Technology to include frame fit and adjustment, prescription analysis, visual acuity, splitting prisms, influence of vertex distance on prescription, and introduction to presbyopia

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

  1. Fit and adjust spectacle frames
  2. Assess visual acuity
  3. Design spectacles for the presbyopic patient
  4. Compensation for change in vertex distance
  5. Split prism power
  6. Analyze single vision prescriptions
  7. Perform basic dispensing clinic procedures