Specialist Diploma in Community Optometry (SDCO)
About This Course
The SDCO aims to prepare students to:
• Demonstrate understanding of Singapore’s ageing problem and its impact on the older
population’s vision or ocular health, and able to assess and manage visually impaired
patients;
• Demonstrate advance level of critical & analytical thinking so as to accurately diagnose common age-related eye diseases;
• Exercise clinical judgement in determining the necessity of a referral or monitoring for patients with age-related eye disease;
• Demonstrate competency in monitoring stable eye diseases, with the ability to recognise the need to refer for medical attention;
• Demonstrate proficient knowledge and skills to implement refractive correction strategies that can be employed by both optometrists and ophthalmologists;
• Manage patients with myopia, as well as those with myopic-related complications proficiently
What You'll Learn
1. Geriatric & Low Vision (30 hrs)
2. Ocular & Systemic Diseases (75 hrs)
3. Refractive Correction Strategies (30 hrs)
4. Myopia and its Complications (60 hrs)
5. Clinical Practicum in Community Optometry (60 hrs)
Entry Requirements
Diploma in Optometry or other Optometry qualifications recognized by OOB and Valid practicing certificate in Singapore with full registration with OOB.