The BSc (Hons) Optometry at City has achieved 94% for overall student satisfaction (NSS 2020). Our Optometry BSc degree offers a professionally recognised qualification preparing you for a flexible and rewarding career in optometry. **Who is it for?** This course has been designed for students with an ambition to become leaders in the field of optometry. You should have a passion for science and will enjoy a future working with the public and colleagues across the healthcare sector. Optometry is a career where you have the opportunity to make a real difference to peoples’ lives who suffer from vision impairment and sight loss. **Objectives** As a student on the BSc Optometry course, you will be studying within a Division which has an internationally excellent reputation within the optometric profession. You will study a curriculum informed by our world leading research which is at the cutting edge of advances in the sector and be taught by academics who are leaders in their field. Throughout your time at City, you will benefit from a combination of teaching styles including clinics and laboratories in our specialist on-campus facilities and clinical placements at Moorfields Eye Hospital, the UK’s leading eye hospital. During your final year, you will further develop your clinical practice by working in our very own eye clinic City Sight where you will examine members of the public from babies to the elderly, presenting you with a wide range of ocular conditions and needs. During your fourth year, after graduating with BSc (Hons) in optometry, you will have to successfully complete the Scheme for Registration run by the College of Optometrists before you can join the register as an optometrist. As a City student studying optometry, you can join OpSoc (the Optometry Society) which is run by our incredibly enthusiastic students. OpSoc is actively involved in competitions between universities and institutions and were recently named the winners of the Association of Optometrists (AOP) Film and Television award for their Hunger Games-inspired entry in sporting competitions. In addition they organise the annual student optometry ball, The Eyeball.The BSc (Hons) Optometry at City has achieved 94% for overall student satisfaction (NSS 2019). Our Optometry BSc degree offers a professionally recognised qualification preparing you for a flexible and rewarding career in optometry."

From your very first day at City, you will build a foundation in the basic sciences that underpin optometry and start your clinical training. Lectures are supported by tutorials and laboratory-based work. Core modules include: - Optics; - Ophthalmic lenses and dispensing I - Neural biology and general pathology - Clinical skills I - Visual optics and measurement techniques In your second year, you will expand and enhance your clinical skills, developing an understanding of ocular and systemic disease coupled with the neuroscience of visual perception. Clinical confidence and competence is supported by expert guidance from optometrists who will teach you how to use the latest technologies to investigate ocular abnormalities, thus preparing you for the final-year clinics. Core modules include: - Clinical skills II - Contact lenses - Introduction to Eye Disease - Binocular Vision - Visual perception - Ophthalmic lenses and Dispensing II In your third year, you will develop the knowledge and clinical skills that form the basis of optometric practice by seeing a diverse range of patients under supervision at our brand new City Sight Optometry Clinic. You will carry out full eye examinations and gain specialist skills in primary care, paediatrics, binocular vision, contact lenses, dispensing and visual impairment clinics. You will also observe patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the world's leading eye hospitals. Core modules include: - Eye disease and therapeutics - Clinical skills and professional practice - Binocular vision, paediatrics and visual impairment - Contact lenses II - Research studies

You will be assessed using a variety of methods, depending on module choices: - coursework - written examinations - clinical observation - Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) - A project or dissertation is required in your final year.

General Optical Council

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: B510

Institution code: C60

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Year 1

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Bachelor Degrees: Upper second class Honours degree in other science or medically related degree. In addition to meeting the entry requirements, you are required to have enhanced disclosure and barring service clearance and are required to register with the General Optical Council and maintain this registration throughout the degree course.

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Student satisfaction : 74%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 70%

Go onto work and study: 85%

England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
EU	16560.0	Year 1
International	16560.0	Year 1

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