To train the candidate in the management of common ocular motility disorders amblyopia management and other common pediatric ophthalmic disorder.
The course would include training in following diagnostic and management skills.
Diagnostic skills
Vision assessment in children.
Refraction in children.
Vision screening.
Diagnostic approach to common pediatric ophthalmic disorders.
Screening for the retinopathy of prematurity.
Evaluation of patients with diplopia.
Evaluation of binocularity, stereopsis, fusional amplitudes and accomodative amplitudes.
Practical approach to the diagnosis of strabismus.
Paddle tests (Cover Test, Uncover TEST, simultaneous prism cover test etc). Use of prisms to quantitate the deviations, Hess charting, Forceps tests, Evaluation of versions, vergences, duction, saccades and ocular torsion.
Working up the cases of nystagmus and other ocular motility disorder.
Tensilon / Prostigmine test for myaesthenia
Evaluation of congenital epiphora.
Management Skills
Non surgical :
Therapeutic approach to common pediatric disorders
Principles of spectacle correction in strabismic and non-strabismic children
Ophthalmic prism dispensing.
Botox for strabismic disorders
Surgical :
Conventional and fornix incision strabismus surgery.
Adjustible suture technique
Probing, nasal ensodscopy and lacrimal sac surgery in children.
