Program Overview

Course Plan for Glaucoma, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Introduction

The course plan for Glaucoma, Diagnosis, and Treatment is designed to provide students with advanced knowledge in the field of glaucoma diagnosis and treatment.

Basdata

• Course code: 9K8118
• Course name: Glaukom, diagnostik och behandling (Glaucoma, Diagnosis, and Treatment)
• Higher education credits: 7.5
• Education form: Commissioned education (higher education credits)
• Main field of study: Medicine
• Level: Advanced level, with only courses at the basic level as prerequisites
• Grading scale: Failed (U) or passed (G)
• Department responsible for the course: Department of Clinical Neuroscience
• Decision-making body: Education Committee CNS
• Date of establishment:
• Revised by: Education Committee CNS
• The course plan applies from: Autumn semester 2021

Särskild behörighet

• Special eligibility requirements: Master's degree in clinical optometry, ophthalmic nurse degree, medical degree, or other authorized personnel in glaucoma care.

Mål

• After completing the course, the student should:
  • have in-depth knowledge of and be able to describe the etiology, pathophysiology, symptomatology, and pharmacology of glaucoma,
  • have knowledge of treatment methods and their purposes,
  • be able to apply special examination methods, with particular emphasis on quality, safety, and ethics, to independently practice their profession in structured glaucoma care.

Innehåll

• The course includes:
  • relevant eye anatomy and the etiology and pathophysiology of glaucoma
    • anterior segment
    • posterior segment
  • examination methods for glaucoma
    • structural measurements
    • functional measurements
  • handling principles and treatment for glaucoma
    • shared care and referral management
    • surgical treatment
    • medical treatment
  • glaucoma patient and nursing care for glaucoma

Arbetsformer

• Through lectures, literature reviews, seminars, and group work, the student should be given the opportunity to absorb the course's many aspects. The theoretical parts of the course are largely conducted via KI's learning platform, using lectures, literature references, self-evaluation questions, and assignments. The course is mainly given remotely, but physical course meetings occur.

Examination

• The course is examined in the form of written assignments and an examination seminar with case review.
• Mandatory participation: Participation in seminars/course meetings.
• Absence from or failure to complete mandatory educational components
  • The examiner assesses whether and, if so, how absence from or failure to complete mandatory educational components can be made up. Before the participant has participated in or completed the mandatory educational components, or made up for absence/deficiencies in accordance with the examiner's instructions, the study results cannot be finalized. Absence from or failure to complete a mandatory educational component may mean that the participant cannot make up for the occasion until the next time the course is given.
• Opportunity for exemption from the course plan's provisions on examination
  • If there are special reasons or a need for adaptation for participants with disabilities, the examiner may decide to deviate from the course plan's provisions on examination form, number of examination opportunities, opportunity for completion, or exemption from mandatory educational moments, etc. Content and learning objectives, as well as the level of expected skills, knowledge, and abilities, may not be changed, removed, or lowered.

Övriga föreskrifter

• Course evaluation will be conducted according to the guidelines established for education at Karolinska Institutet.
• Language of instruction: Swedish and English
• The course may not be credited in an examination at the same time as a completed and passed course whose content entirely or partially coincides with the content of the course. The following course is overlapping: 9K8026 Glaukom, diagnostik och behandling, 7.5 higher education credits

Litteraturlista och övriga läromedel

• Heijl, Anders, Riktlinjer för glaukomsjukvården , Alm, Albert; Bengtsson, Boel; Bergström, Anders; Calissendorf, Berit; Lindblom, Bertil; Lindén, Christina, [Sverige] : Sveriges ögonläkarförening, 2010 - 115 s. ISBN: -4, LIBRIS-ID: , *
• Alwitry, A, Shared care Glaucoma :A Clinical Text for Ophthalmic Allied Professionals , Blackwell Publishing, 2008 ISBN: 978--7, *
• Terminology and guidelines for glaucoma , 4. ed. : Savona : PubliComm, 2014 - 195 s. ISBN: , LIBRIS-ID: , *