Ortoptics
Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied only as a single subject.
Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.
What will you learn?
The aim of the bachelor study program of Orthoptics is to prepare graduates for the orthoptical profession in ambulatories of the hospital departments and clinics, independent ambulatories in medical institutions of state and private type.
The aim of the study program is to acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills for performing the profession. The aim of the study program is to educate non-medical healthcare workers in accordance with the law on non-medical health care professions.“In order to see well, it is not enough to have open only eyes.”
Graduation of the study program gives the qualification to full use in the rehabilitation segment of the visual functions of the interprofessional medical team in the field of preventive, diagnostic and rehabilitation care in the field of orthoptics.
Practical training
This bachelor's degree program includes practice in accordance with the relevant legal regulations of at least 12 weeks. Theoretical knowledge gained during lectures and seminars are verified by students in practical exercises . Practice is carried out in specialized teaching laboratories, at orthoptic workplaces, strabology amulatories and eye clinics.
This practice will be in the form of a group, then an individual with supervison, is spread over all semesters, with an emphasis on the second half of the study.
Further information
web presentation LF MU:
http://www.med.muni.cz/
admission procedure for LF MU:
http://www.med.muni.cz/index.php?id=28
study programes in LF MU:
http://www.med.muni.cz/index.php?id=28
information in LF MU:
http://is.muni.cz/
documents:
https://is.muni.cz/auth/do/med/zpravyprac/Optometrie/
Career opportunities
The University prepares specialized healthcare workers under Section 11 (1b) and (4) of Act No. 96/2004 Coll., on the Conditions for Obtaining and Recognizing the Competence for the Exercise of Non-Medical Medical Occupations and for the Activities of Health Care Provisions (law of non-medical health care professions, as amended), to the full extent within the scope of preventive, diagnostic, medical and rehabilitation care in the orthoptics program.
The graduates of the bachelor's orthoptics program are employed either as health service providers as an ortoptist.
Therefore, the application is in an orthoptic ambulance, an ophthalmologist, where, among other things, it serves optical and ophthalmological devices. In the ophthalmology ambulatory - strabologist, visually impaired children's clinic, the eye-care department of hospitals or clinics and the strabological workplace, the orthoptic workplace, performs orthoptic and pleoptic treatment based on an ophthalmologist's (strabologist) indication.
Admission requirements
No information available
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Full-time studies in czech
What will you learn?
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
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1. semester
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye I
- Bases of Anatomy - lecture
- Biochemistry - lecture
- Biology - lecture
- Epidemiology - lecture
- First Aid in Medicine
- Medical Latin
- Microbiology - seminary
- Nursing care in Pediatry-seminar
- Pediatrics I - lecture
- Physiological optics – lecture
- Physiological optics – practice
- Physiology I - lecture
- Public Health - lecture
- The Ip. care in Pediatry-cv
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2. semester
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye II - lecture
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye II - practice
- Binocular Vision I - lecture
- Binocular Vision I - practice
- Biophysics, Informatics - lecture
- Biophysics, Informatics -seminary
- Histology - lecture
- Nursing care in pediatrics II-seminar
- Nursing care in Pediatry II-exercises
- Pathology
- Pediatrics II- lecture
- Physiology II - lecture
- Propedeutics of strabismology - lecture
- Propedeutics of strabismology - practice
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3. semester
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye III - lecture
- Bases of Pharmacology - lecture
- Bases of Pharmacology - practice
- Binocular Vision I - lecture
- Binocular Vision I - lecture
- Clinical Physiology General
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - e
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - l
- English Language I - practice
- Fundamentals of education and pedagogy
- Fundamentals of education and pedagogy - practice
- Health Care Ethics
- Neurooftalmology - lecture
- Neuroophthalmology - practice
- Strabology I - lecture
- Strabology I - practice
- Strabology I - seminary
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4. semester
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision II- e
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision II- l
- Correction and contact lenses I - lecture
- English Language II - practice
- Eye pathology and clinical ophthalmology I - lecture
- Immunology - lecture
- Pharmacology of the Eye
- Practice in Orthoptics and Pleoptic I - Exercise
- Psychology and specifics of child psychology
- Sociology
- Strabology II - lecture
- Strabology II - practice
- Strabology II - seminary
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5. semester
- Bachelor's Thesis I - practice
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - lII
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - lII
- Correction and contact lenses
- Correction and contact lenses
- Ergonomics Vision
- Eye pathology and clinical ophthalmology II - lecture
- Legal Aspects
- Magnifying Visual Devices - lecture
- Magnifying Visual Devices - practice
- Ophthalmological Devices - lecture
- Ophthalmological Devices - practice
- Practical lessons in orthoptics and pleoptics II
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6. semester
- Bachelor's Thesis II - practice
- Binocular Vision III - practice
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - IV
- Clinical rehabilitation of binocular vision - IV - practice
- Correction and contact lenses III - practice
- Eye pathology and clinical ophthalmology III - practice
- Magnifying Visual Devices II - practice
- Practice in Orthoptics and Pleoptic III - Exercise
- Strabology III - practice
Detailed information about study plan courses
Follow-up studies
A student of a bachelor's study program may, after fulfilling the conditions for admission, continue in a follow-up master program, eg. economic or biomedical or similar.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Medicine | |
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| Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | No | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | No | |
| Standard length of studies | 3 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
Do you have any questions?
Send us an e-mail
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Mgr. Sylvie Petrová
Consultant
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doc. Mgr. Pavel Beneš, Ph.D.
Consultant
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