Core Modules

ELIGIBILITY

XIIth with PCM or PCB with 50% marks

Fee structure

Career Prospects

Optometry aims to produce professionally competent optometrists serving as primary eye care health practitioners. Common job profiles of students after completing the course includes Optometry Technicians, Ophthalmic Assistants and Ophthalmic Nurses. Opportunities exist in areas related with Optician shops, eye doctors, and Contact Lens companies, ophthalmic lens industry and hospital eye departments. A technician can work for eye testing, Contact lenses, squint exercises. One can start your own eye clinic, Optical shop, lens manufacturing unit.

Vision

To be known globally as a centre of excellence for medical & allied education, innovation, interdisciplinary research and practice for enhancing health.

Mission

• M1: Establish state of art facilities for excellent medical & allied education and interdisciplinary research.
• M2: Collaborate with health care sector professionals to align curriculum and develop strong foundation for fundamental & practice health.
• M3: Involve students in community health programmes to develop lifelong learning and communication skills.

Programme Education Objectives

• PEO-1: The graduates will be able to know and understand the structure and function of the Visual and systemic health with the normal range of clinical findings of the eye.
• PEO-2: The graduates will be able to recognize pre-disposing epidemiological, environmental etiological and occupational factors that require intervention to prevent and correct the refractive errors and visual conditions of the eye.
• PEO-3: The graduates will be able to understand the mechanism and interactions of pharmacological agents along with their safe and effective use in the diagnosis and treatment of the ocular diseases of the eye.
• PEO-4: The graduates will be able to understand the pathogenesis of the disease and the implications for ocular health and function and be knowledgeable in ocular and laboratory testing used in assessment of systemic, visual and ocular function of the eye.
• PEO-5: To Posses the initiative and critical acumen required to continuously improving their knowledge

Program Outcomes (PO)

• PO1: Clinical Care
  Using a patient/family-centered approach and best evidence, each student will organize and implement the prescribed preventive, investigative and management plans; and will offer appropriate follow-up services. Program objectives should enable the students to:
  • Apply the principles of basic science and evidence-based practice
  • Use relevant investigations as needed
  • Identify the indications for basic procedures and perform them in an appropriate manner
  • Provide care to patients – efficiently and in a cost-effective way – in a range of settings, and maintain foremost the interests of individual patients
  • Identify the influence of biological, psychosocial, economic, and spiritual factors on patients' well-being and act in an appropriate manner
  • Incorporate strategies for health promotion and disease prevention with their patients (K3)
• PO2: Communication
  The student will learn how to communicate with patients/clients, care-givers, other health professionals and other members of the community effectively and appropriately. Communication is a fundamental requirement in the provision of health care services. Program objectives should enable the students to:
  • Provide sufficient information to ensure that the patient/client can participate as actively as possible and respond appropriately to the information
  • Clearly discuss the diagnosis and options with the patient, and negotiate appropriate treatment plans in a sensitive manner that is in the patient’s and society's best interests
  • Explain the proposed healthcare service – its nature, purpose, possible positive and adverse consequences, its limitations, and reasonable alternatives wherever they exist
  • Use effective communication skills to gather data and share information including attentive listening, open-ended inquiry, empathy and clarification to ensure understanding
  • Appropriately communicate with, and provide relevant information to, other stakeholders including members of the healthcare team
  • Use communication effectively and flexibly in a manner that is appropriate for the reader or listener
  • Explore and consider the influence that the patient’s ideas, beliefs and expectations have during interactions with them, along with varying factors such as age, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic background
  • Develop efficient techniques for all forms of written and verbal communication including accurate and timely record keeping
  • Assess their own communication skills, develop self-awareness and be able to improve their relationships with others
  • Possess skills to counsel for lifestyle changes and advocate health promotion (K2)
• PO3: Membership of a multidisciplinary health team
  The student will put a high value on effective communication within the team, including transparency about aims, decisions, uncertainty and mistakes. Team-based health care is the provision of health services to individuals, families, and/or their communities by at least two health providers who work collaboratively to accomplish shared goals within and across settings to achieve coordinated, high quality care. Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:
  • Recognize, clearly articulate, understand and support shared goals in the team that reflect patient and family priorities
  • Possess distinct roles within the team; to have clear expectations for each member’s functions, responsibilities, and accountabilities, which in turn optimizes the team’s efficiency and makes it possible for them to use division of labor advantageously, and accomplish more than the sum of its parts
  • Develop mutual trust within the team to create strong norms of reciprocity and greater opportunities for shared achievement
  • Communicate effectively so that the team prioritizes and continuously refines its communication channels creating an environment of general and specific understanding
  • Recognize measurable processes and outcomes, so that the individual and team can agree on and implement reliable and timely feedback on successes and failures in both the team's functioning and the achievement of their goals. These can then be used to track and improve performance immediately and over time. (K3)
• PO4: Ethics and accountability
  Students will understand core concepts of clinical ethics and law so that they may apply these to their practice as physicians. Program objectives should enable the students to:
  • Describe and apply the basic concepts of clinical ethics to actual cases and situations
  • Recognize the need to make health care resources available to patients fairly, equitably and without bias, discrimination or undue influence
  • Demonstrate an understanding and application of basic legal concepts to the practice
  • Employ professional accountability for the initiation, maintenance and termination of patient-provider relationships
  • Demonstrate respect for each patient's individual rights of autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality (K2)
• PO5: Commitment to professional excellence
  The student will execute professionalism to reflect in his/her thought and action a range of attributes and characteristics that include technical competence, appearance, image, confidence level, empathy, compassion, understanding, patience, manners, verbal and non-verbal communication, an anti-discriminatory and non-judgmental attitude, and appropriate physical contact to ensure safe, effective and expected delivery of healthcare. Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:
  • Demonstrate distinctive, meritorious and high quality practice that leads to excellence and that depicts commitment to competence, standards, ethical principles and values, within the legal boundaries of practice
  • Demonstrate the quality of being answerable for all actions and omissions to all, including service users, peers, employers, standard-setting/regulatory bodies or oneself
  • Demonstrate humanity in the course of everyday practice by virtue of having respect (and dignity), compassion, empathy, honour and integrity
  • Ensure that self-interest does not influence actions or omissions, and demonstrate regards for service-users and colleagues (K2)
• PO6: Leadership and mentorship
  The student must take on a leadership role where needed in order to ensure clinical productivity and patient satisfaction. They must be able to respond in an autonomous and confident manner to planned and uncertain situations, and should be able to manage themselves and others effectively. They must create and maximize opportunities for the improvement of the health seeking experience and delivery of healthcare services. Program objectives should enable the students to:
  • Act as agents of change and be leaders in quality improvement and service development, so that they contribute and enhance people’s wellbeing and their healthcare experience
  • Systematically evaluate care; ensure the use of these findings to help improve people’s experience and care outcomes, and to shape clinical treatment protocols and services
  • Identify priorities and effectively manage time and resources to ensure the maintenance or enhancement of the quality of care
  • Recognize and be self-aware of the effect their own values, principles and assumptions may have on their practice. They must take charge of their own personal and professional development and should learn from experience (through supervision, feedback, reflection and evaluation)
  • Facilitate themselves and others in the development of their competence, by using a range of professional and personal development skills
  • Work independently and in teams. They must be able to take a leadership role to coordinate, delegate and supervise care safely, manage risk and remain accountable for the care given; actively involve and respect others’ contributions to integrated person-centered care; yet work in an effective manner across professional and agency boundaries. They must know when and how to communicate with patients and refer them to other professionals and agencies, to respect the choices of service users and others, to promote shared decision-making, to deliver positive outcomes, and to coordinate smooth and effective transition within and between services and agencies. (K5)
• PO7: Social Accountability and Responsibility
  The students will recognize that allied and healthcare professionals need to be advocates within the health care system, to judiciously manage resources and to acknowledge their social accountability.10They have a mandate to serve the community, region and the nation and will hence direct all research and service activities towards addressing their priority health concerns. Program objectives should enable the students to
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the determinants of health at local, regional and national levels and respond to the population needs
  • Establish and promote innovative practice patterns by providing evidence-based care and testing new models of practice that will translate the results of research into practice, and thus meet individual and community needs in a more effective manner
  • Develop a shared vision of an evolving and sustainable health care system for the future by working in collaboration with and reinforcing partnerships with other stakeholders, including academic health centres, governments, communities and other relevant professional and non-professional organizations
  • Advocate for the services and resources needed for optimal patient care (K1)
• PO8: Scientific attitude and scholarship
  The student will utilize sound scientific and/or scholarly principles during interactions with patients and peers, educational endeavours, research activities and in all other aspects of their professional lives. Program objectives should enable the students to:
  • Engage in ongoing self-assessment and structure their continuing professional education to address the specific needs of the population
  • Practice evidence-based by applying principles of scientific methods
  • Take responsibility for their educational experiences
  • Acquire basic skills such as presentation skills, giving feedback, patient education and the design and dissemination of research knowledge; for their application to teaching encounters (K3)
• PO9: Lifelong learning
  The student should be committed to continuous improvement in skills and knowledge while harnessing modern tools and technology. Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:
  • Perform objective self-assessments of their knowledge and skills; learn and refine existing skills; and acquire new skills
  • Apply newly gained knowledge or skills to patient care
  • Enhance their personal and professional growth and learning by constant introspection and utilizing experiences
  • Search (including through electronic means), and critically evaluate medical literature to enable its application to patient care
  • Develop a research question and be familiar with basic, clinical and translational research in its application to patient care
  • Identify and select an appropriate, professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling career pathway (K3)

Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

To train and develop world class Optometrist having following skills

• PSO1:Strong and clear clinical skill as required to do job of optometrist
  
  • In primary eye care
  • In examination and correction of visual errors by using spectacles or contact lenses
  • In examination and correction of visual alignment by exercise and amblyopia treatment
  • Able to assist as optometrist in Eye hospital, Eye camp and other eye care activities
  • Able to assist as optometrist in health education of society
• PSO2: Strong and clear managerial skill as required to do job of optometrist in team
• PSO3: Ability to do documentary work as required to do job of optometrist
• PSO4: Strong and clear values to contribute positively in society as a optometrist