SPc311 Opthalmology

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Martin Vrubel, Ph.D.
Department of Special and Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: PhDr. Mgr. Ilona Fialová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Institute for Research in Inclusive Education – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
Knowledge of human biology at the high school level
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Learning outcomes: To acquaint students with professional terminology, with detailed anatomy and physiology of the human visual organ. Students will be acquainted with the most important diseases related to vision, their etiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, therapies and prevention. The course emphasized the analysis of the impact of eye illness on functional vision. The course has a significant impact on the functional vision examination techniques and the rehabilitation of the visual function with emphasis on visual acuity and binocular vision.
Learning outcomes
Students are aware of the most important visual conditions related to vision
Student will know the impact of eye pathologies on functional vision.
Student will be able to determine functional examination techniques and the student will know the possibilities of rehabilitation of visual functions with emphasis on visual acuity and binocular vision.
Syllabus
  • Eye illness in the World, detailed analysis of problems in European countries, main causes of vision loss, division of visual impairment according to WHO.
  • Anatomy of Eye (deposition of bulb, construction of bulb, emphasis on refraction environment, bulb supply and innervation), supplementary eye organs (adnexa).
  •  Construction of the nerve part of the bulb, visual pathway and visual centers, proper function, pathology.
  • Development of Eye and congenital developmental defects.
  •  Development of visual functions, identification of problems in premature birth.
  • Visus, refractive defects - their symptoms, the way of examination and correction.
  •  Accomodation and its disorders, Presbyopia and its possibilities of correction, method of examination.
  •  Fundamentals of geometric optics of the eye.
  •  Field of view and its examination, most frequent eye field outages, problems with visual vision, possibilities of rehabilitation.
  •  Adaptation to light and darkness, disorders, examination and rehabilitation.
  •  Color vision and its disorders, examination of color and possibilities of rehabilitation, importance of color filters.
  •  Electrophysiology of the eye and its use - special investigation methods.
  •  Binocular vision - Eye disorders - Investigations and rehabilitation.
  •  Disease of the retina - types, causes, therapy, treatment, possibilities of examination and rehabilitation.
  •  Cataract - types, causes, therapy, treatment, possibilities of rehabilitation.
  •  Glaucoma - types, causes, therapy, treatment, possibilities of examination.
  •  General and oncological diseases affecting functional vision, possibilities of rehabilitation.
Literature
    required literature
  • BENEŠ, Pavel, Karel PANČOCHA and Martin VRUBEL. Přehled oftalmologie pro pomáhající profese (An overview of ophthalmology for assisting professions). 1st ed. Brno: Národní centrum ošetřovatelství a nelékařských zdravotnických profesí, 2020, 126 pp. ISBN 978-80-7013-603-4. info
    recommended literature
  • VRUBEL, Martin. Facilitátory a bariéry školní a sociální inkluze osob se zrakovým postižením (Facilitators and barriers of school and social inclusion of people with visual impairment). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 186 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8022-5. info
    not specified
  • HYCL, Josef and Lucie VALEŠOVÁ. Atlas oftalmologie. 2. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2008, 239 s. ISBN 9788073871604. info
  • VÍTEK, Jiří. Medicínská propedeutika pro speciální pedagogy : texty k distančnímu vzdělávání. Brno: Paido, 2007, 126 s. ISBN 9788073151546. info
Teaching methods
Interpretation of difficult parts of the curriculum, Theoretical preparation; Study of literature. Continuous testing.
Assessment methods
Written final exam or oral exam (40 points). To achieve the goal, it is necessary to achieve 70% of the total point earnings. Active approach to study.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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