Corso di laurea in Ortottica ed Assistenza Oftalmologica

Priority objectives of the vocational training course of the third year of the course will be:

- To acquire direct experience, with the supervision of expert tutors, with increasing degrees of autonomy and responsability, of acute and chronic pathologies, congenital and acquired, with minor and greater disability of the apparatus visual.

- Acquire in- depth skills and competences in the evaluation and reabilitation treatment of the subject in the different age groups.

- Acquire in-depth knowlenge and basic skills in the collection, analysis and management of information flowos and data concerning clinical care and rehabilitation.

The third-year student, at the end of the internship, is thus able to:

 

- to achieve a professional conduct that, in compliance with ethics, professional ethics and current legislation, protects the profession and its image and maintains the transparency of interpersonal relationships and areas of intervention; to take responsibility for their actions and make a constant commitment to the well-being of the person and the community; to respect the citizen and the community; to respect the culture and autonomy of the person through a centred approach;

 

-ito demonstrate that he/she can take care of patients affected by the main priority health problems, welcoming them, examining them and evaluating them. To carry out an orthoptic evaluation by formulating elaborations and hypotheses necessary for the drafting of an adequate therapeutic project (rehabilitative, educational/re-educational); to know how to carry out orthoptic rehabilitation surgery safely and effectively, carrying out periodic checks and changes to the ongoing treatment plan; to carry out instrumental ophthalmological semeiotic techniques. In all the processes described above, the student is able to identify the problems inherent in the specific case (problem setting) and therefore the resolution (problem solving), considering the patient as a whole and for the needs of life in his or her social context;

 

-i to establish a helping relationship to support the assisted person and the family by helping the person to develop self-care and functional recovery skills;

 

- he/she will be able to carry out visual prevention activities towards individuals and the community, in health or with problems and disabilities due to physical and/or mental condition. In particular, it represents an integral part of the therapeutic program and sees the Orthoptist/Ophthalmology Assistant able to identify health needs and prevention of visual impairments.

Through the recognition of potentially risky situations, investigations, screening and follow-up, he/she aims at the early detection of visual disorders, ocular motility and binocular vision in all age groups, knowing how to promote actions necessary for maintaining health and overcoming disability by preventing further aggravation;

 

-i all the procedures and tools that enable the Orthoptist/Ophthalmology Assistant to organize his or her work in the overall sense of the term, and therefore to organize his or her internship day, are framed.

To understand all the management tools (resources, information, economic aspects) essential for the correct implementation of daily practice, through the following actions:

  - to act according to quality criteria using appropriate tools

  - to manage privacy

  - to manage clinical risk

  - to make decisions after implementing a proper problem-solving process

  - to identify the nature of the problem, to analyze, to choose and to interpret, to identify its resolution by      resorting to possible collaborations.

They will also be able to recognise and respect roles and skills, to interact and to collaborate with multi-professional teams, and to use guidelines and protocols to standardise operating methods. He/she must also know how to use information and computer systems for communication, information management and data analysis;

 

-the student informs himself, develops and consolidates his or her cultural foundations, through the following skills: knows how to identify the learning and training objectives in the training course and knows how to evaluate the achievement of the same; formulates training programs; takes responsibility for their own training and professional development, self-evaluates the achievement of goals, reflects and self-evaluates with respect to their learning. Will be able to carry out a bibliographic search in all primary and secondary databases to find evidence in the literature on specific questions;

 

-the relational sub-stratum through which the Orthoptist/Ophthalmology Assistant will apply his/her professional practice in the rehabilitation context and in the social and institutional one, through communication and relationship skills with the patient and his/her family, with active listening methods and management of relational dynamics, always interacting with other professionals, is defined.  Coordinators and tutors and with operators from other facilities.

Therefore, to demonstrate that he/she know hows to listen to all the people they meet during the internship experience, by adapting their communication strategies (verbal and non-verbal) to the context. Also to demonstrate the ability to present a topic to a group of people (students, professionals, population), using computer tools aimed at communication.

 

- analysis of the anamnestic data collected;

- rehabilitation intervention project appropriate to the setting;

- implementation of orthoptic rehabilitation intervention in a safe and effective way in developmental and adult patients;

- ability to relate to the patient and his or her family;

- ability to integrate into the rehabilitation team;

- to identify the organization by knowing how to fit into the team and in complex organizational contexts;

- to identify and apply the orthoptic rehabilitation therapeutic plan in pediatric and adult patients;

- to identify the health and prevention needs of visual impairment and low vision;

- to plan, to implement and to evaluate diagnostic techniques related to the psychophysical assessment of visual function;

- to plan, to implement and to evaluate vision re-education activities and define the objectives of such re-education taking into account the pathology, educational needs and needs of the person;

- to verify the results of visual rehabilitation;

- to put themselves in a situation of listening to all the people they meet during the internship by adapting their communication strategies (verbal and non-verbal) to the context;

- to expose a topic to a group of people (students, professionals, population) using IT tools aimed at communication;

- design and implementation, in collaboration with other professionals, of health promotion, screening and prevention of vision disorders, early diagnosis aimed at the individual and the community;

- performance, description, understanding and interpretation of ophthalmological instrumental semeiology exams;

- understanding of all the management tools (resources, information, economic aspects) essential for the correct implementation of daily practice.

625 hours of internship at the centers affiliated with the Degree Course in Orthoptic.

The path of learning in the professional clinical field - internship - is programmed by the Coordinator of the Degree Course and approved by the Degree Course Council.

The professional tutors of the internships, contribute to the organization and implementation of global professional-practical activities, supervise and guide the students within the internship module and contribute to the training and certification evaluation of each training period and final evaluation.

At the end of each internship period, the Student receives a 30th judgment from the Tutor.

In order to pass the exam, the candidate must be sufficient in all the oral tests and simulated practice at the positions corresponding to the training placements of the year.

The final grade will be expressed in 30ths and will be calculated with a weighted average between the exam mark and the average of the apprenticeship grades.