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Universidad de Murcia Master's Degree in Applied Optometry
Universidad de Murcia

Master's Degree in Applied Optometry

Murcia, Spain

1 Years

Spanish

Full time

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EUR 2,871 / per year *

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* € 4634.32: international students. The data that appears on this page are not official, only indicative. For more information contact the secretariat of the corresponding center.

Key Summary

    About: The Master's Degree in Applied Optometry offers students comprehensive training in advanced optometric practices. The program focuses on developing clinical skills and knowledge necessary for providing high-quality eye care. Students will engage in hands-on experiences, coursework, and research to enhance their understanding of optometry's principles.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various career paths, including roles as clinical optometrists, optometric educators, or researchers in vision science. There's also the option to work in healthcare organizations, private practices, or research institutions, contributing to advancements in optometric care.

Introduction

This University Master's Degree is a project in the areas of Ophthalmology and Optometry of the Universidad de Murcia whose purpose is the specialized training of opticians-optometrists in the healthcare tasks of these professionals in the Hospital Ophthalmology Services. At the end of this professionalization Master, the student will be able to collaborate with the ophthalmologist in any level of visual health care.

The Master is practically carried out entirely in the Ophthalmology Service of the Reina Sofía University General Hospital, and the teaching system is based mainly on student rotations for the different specialized consultations of the Service, making training eminently practical. .

Master's file

Teaching center: School of Medicine
Type of teaching: Face-to-face
Language: Spanish
Duration: One year
ECTS credits: 60
Title: Master's Degree in Clinical Optometry
Scholarships, grants and mobility: National / International
Price per credit:
  • In 1st registration: € 46.97
  • In 2nd registration: € 76.37
  • In 3rd registration: € 88.12
  • In 4th or successive: € 88.12

Graduates and graduates in Optics and Optometry are health professionals trained specifically for visual health care, specifically, for the detection and treatment, applying optometric procedures, of visual dysfunctions, such as refractive defects and alterations in accommodation and convergence. The Master's Degree in Clinical Optometry is a title that allows the professional specialization of these graduates in the tasks of the optician-optometrist in ophthalmology consultations, both private and public. Currently the majority professional exit of these graduates is the Optics establishment. However, there are more and more graduates working in eye clinics, and it is a reality that in a more or less short period of time Public Health will have opticians-optometrists on its staff, as is already the case in the Autonomous Communities of Catalonia , Navarra, Basque Country, etc. Therefore, postgraduate training of this type can be considered an added value to the curriculum of these graduates, allowing them to access this career opportunity more easily.

The University Master's Degree in Clinical Optometry is a professionalizing master's degree, which allows the specific training of students in the healthcare tasks of an optician-optometrist in hospital ophthalmology consultations. For this, the University Master's Degree in Clinical Optometry has a staff of university ophthalmologists and optometrists linked to the Reina Sofía Hospital in Murcia, who carry out their healthcare work and much of their teaching work in the Ophthalmology Service of said Hospital. This Service has first-visit consultations and specialized consultations, where a large number of patients with different ocular and visual pathologies are treated (glaucoma consultation, medical retina, strabology, cornea, AMD, etc.). This allows students to have access to a very varied healthcare activity within visual health care: graduation of patients of any age and with any type of eye pathology, special adaptations of contact lenses, optometric management of patients with strabismus, management optometry of patients with corneal disorders, management of patients with low vision, management of different ophthalmic diagnostic devices (campimeters, microperimeters, OCT, GDx, Pentacam, Confoscan, biometer, pachymeter, etc.). All these resources are available to the students of the Master for advanced training.

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