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Study Details: 3 years
This masters programme is designed for orthoptists and other eye care professionals looking to advance their clinical knowledge and understanding in the specialist area of vision and strabismus. It is the only course on these topics that is taught entirely online, so you can fit your studies around your personal and professional commitments.
Our flexible course structure means you can select modules that focus on the topics that interest you most, or that are most relevant to your clinical practice. You could choose to develop a detailed understanding of comitant and incomitant strabismus, examine diseases which affect ocular motility, study visual processing in detail or learn about the effects of stroke.
Minimum 2:2 undergraduate honours degree in an eye care-related degree.
Our Vision and Strabismus masters programme is designed to advance both your clinical career and patient care.
Many of our alumni have successfully transitioned into senior leadership roles such as Head Orthoptist, Deputy Head Orthoptist or Service Manager, both in the NHS and overseas.
Beyond career progression, some of our graduates have pioneered new services, using their specialist knowledge to establish low-vision clinics or orthoptic stroke services. A number of our alumni have gone on to earn awards and professional recognition for this impactful work.
Semester one – students choose one module:
Concomitance and Incomitance in Depth
Eye to Vision
Stroke
Medical Exemptions for Orthoptists
Semester two – students choose one module:
Insight into Disease (Orthoptics and Ophthalmology)
Low Vision
Medical Exemptions for Orthoptists
Research Methods (Orthoptics and Ophthalmology)
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