BSc (Hons) Ophthalmic Dispensing
Bachelor's degree
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Faculty of Creative Arts, Tech & Sci - Uni of Bedfordshire
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Canterbury College
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University of Phoenix
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Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Cambridge
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
September
Working with children and adults to improve their vision is a stimulating and rewarding career. Our course teaches the skills you need to become a dispensing optician, working alongside optometrists. You’ll learn how to dispense, fit and supply spectacles, and how to run a successful practice.
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About this course
When you graduate you can apply for jobs as a pre-registration dispensing optician. The preregistration period prepares you for your ABDO final practical examinations to enter onto the General Optical Council Register.
Once registered you can apply for jobs as a dispensing optician or a managing dispensing optician, and you can also specialise in the fields of contact lenses or low vision. By choosing to do further studies you may also train as an orthoptist or an optometrist.
104 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent), Science subjects are preferred.
5 GCSEs at grade C, or grade 4, or above, including English, Maths and Science.
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Subjects
- Dispensing
- Management
- Mathematics
- Ophthalmic
- Ophthalmic Dispensing
- Ophthalmic lenses
- Geometrical
- Dispensing with Mathematics
- Ocular Pathology
- Ophthalmic Dispensing BSc
Course programme
- Geometrical Optics
- Introduction to Ophthalmic Dispensing with Mathematics
- Introduction to Practice Management with Communication Skills
- Introduction to Ophthalmic Lenses
- Study Skills for Dispensing Opticians
- Optics of the Eye
- Further Ophthalmic Lenses
- Communication Skills in the Optical Sector
- Refractive Management and Methods of Ocular Examination
- Introduction to Contact Lens Practice
- Low-Vision Management and Assessment
- Advanced Ophthalmic Lenses
- Final Practical Dispensing
- Practice Management with Ocular Pathology
- Vocational, Recreational and Paediatric Dispensing
- Undergraduate Major Project
- Throughout the course, we’ll use a variety of methods to assess your progress. Besides practical, written and multiple-choice exams, we’ll use assignments, logbooks, lab reports, formal reports, case studies, presentations and class-based tests.
Additional information
BSc (Hons) Ophthalmic Dispensing
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Faculty of Creative Arts, Tech & Sci - Uni of Bedfordshire
Bachelor's degree BlendedPrice on request -
Canterbury College
Bachelor's degree OnlinePrice on request -
Weymouth College
Course OnlinePrice on request -
University of Phoenix
Bachelor's degree OnlinePrice on request -
Canterbury College
HND OnlinePrice on request -
Weymouth College
BTEC OnlinePrice on request -
ELDE India
BTEC Distance LearningPrice on request
See all