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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Associate's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 5, EQF-LLL: Level 5, QF-EHEA: Short Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator	Instructor BETÜL AYAZ
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	Conducting opticianry practices in a laboratory setting. Identifying eyeglass lenses, understanding the characteristics of vision defects and their transpositions in different notations, obtaining the user's pupil and mounting height measurements manually and using a digital pupillometer for mounting eyeglass lenses into frames, cutting eyeglass lenses with a diamond and mounting them on closed frames by working on a hand grinder, understanding the characteristics, measurements, and types of eyeglass frames, selecting and adjusting them according to the face, measuring lenses by understanding the technique of using a focimeter, understanding the characteristics of vision defects and their transpositions in different forms of writing, understanding the characteristics, measurements, and varieties of eyeglass frames, and being able to select and adjust them according to the face are among the objectives of the course.
Course Content	Definition, history, and uses of eyeglasses. Definition, duties, and powers of an optician. Raw materials used in the production of eyeglass frames and their properties. Balancing eyeglass frames on the vertical and horizontal axes and adjusting them to the human face. Measurements, parts, and selection of eyeglass frames according to the face. Dioptric powers of lenses, focal points and focal distances, general classification of lenses. Identification of mineral and organic lenses. Types of lenses, thermal, physical, and chemical properties of lenses. Properties and applications of convex and concave lenses, properties and types of spherical and cylindrical lenses. Where lenses are used according to refractive errors. Marking, drawing, shaving, and cutting lenses, shaving the edges of lenses, and mounting them in eyeglass frames. Recognizing and using a focimeter, finding the dioptric power of lenses, determining the optical center.

The aim of the course

Conducting opticianry practices in a laboratory setting. Identifying eyeglass lenses, understanding the characteristics of vision defects and their transpositions in different notations, obtaining the user's pupil and mounting height measurements manually and using a digital pupillometer for mounting eyeglass lenses into frames, cutting eyeglass lenses with a diamond and mounting them on closed frames by working on a hand grinder, understanding the characteristics, measurements, and types of eyeglass frames, selecting and adjusting them according to the face, measuring lenses by understanding the technique of using a focimeter, understanding the characteristics of vision defects and their transpositions in different forms of writing, understanding the characteristics, measurements, and varieties of eyeglass frames, and being able to select and adjust them according to the face are among the objectives of the course.

Course Content

Definition, history, and uses of eyeglasses. Definition, duties, and powers of an optician. Raw materials used in the production of eyeglass frames and their properties. Balancing eyeglass frames on the vertical and horizontal axes and adjusting them to the human face. Measurements, parts, and selection of eyeglass frames according to the face. Dioptric powers of lenses, focal points and focal distances, general classification of lenses. Identification of mineral and organic lenses. Types of lenses, thermal, physical, and chemical properties of lenses. Properties and applications of convex and concave lenses, properties and types of spherical and cylindrical lenses. Where lenses are used according to refractive errors. Marking, drawing, shaving, and cutting lenses, shaving the edges of lenses, and mounting them in eyeglass frames. Recognizing and using a focimeter, finding the dioptric power of lenses, determining the optical center.

Learning Outcomes

To follow the technological developments in the field of vocational and work practice,
To know professional competence and responsibilities, to have the consciousness of the rules and the professional ethics.
To have knowledge about the basic visual devices as well as lenses, contact lenses and low vision devices,
Providing best choices and helping the user to select the most appropriate product (contact lenses, frames...), prepare them according to the prescription and provide the user's adaptation,
To be able to measure the ophthalmic lenses by lensmeter and spherometer and contact lenses and to make their settings for mounting,
To use the machines, devices and equipments about preparation of eyewear,
To have knowledge of basic optical instruments,
To have general knowledge of basic mathematics, chemistry, physics I, physics II and geometrical optics,
To have basic knowledge about eye, the anatomy of eye and vision health and eye diseases, to have basic knowledge about public health, human anatomy and physiology.
To use hospital automation systems, general and professional software programs,
Adopting the importance of lifelong learning and vocational training, courses, seminars, symposia, panel discussions and be able to be broadcast by following the self-conscious development,
Considering the health and safety measures related to the profession and making first aid in extraordinary situations,
To be able to work Interdisciplinary with a sense of social responsibility and can be an entrepreneurial individuals
To use computer programs efficiently in the octicianry field,
Having the ability to use Turkish grammer and foreign language,
Self-conscious awareness of an individual be able to be developed as a social and cultural,
To have knowledge and ability about administrative responsibility for the management of vocational enterprises,
Knowing the basic epidemiological concepts and to use these concepts appropriately at the professional applications,
To establish healthy relationships with partners and customers,
The student follows regularly training programs for professional and personal development.
The person follows the current events about opticianry sector.
The person goes with the national and international developments in relation to opticianry.
The person knows that health care institutions, to understand the health services organization in Turkey and location of their own discipline within the organization,
The person communicates with patients and patients' families properly.
Competence in the workplace privacy and patient confidentiality issues.
Competence in the access to information and technology and the use of these in one's field of health.
The person has the information about health sector.
Competence in terminolojical language of health sector.
Competence in adopting and applying ethical principles and professional values.

Weekly Course Subjects

1	Theory: Introduction to the course, scope of the course, rationale for the course, importance, rules and requirements. Definition of eyeglasses, their history and areas of use. Definition of an optician, their duties and responsibilities. Practice: Introduction to the optician laboratory, introduction to all equipment.
2	Theory: measurement, unit conversions, unit conversion category, absolute and relative measurement, measurement errors, error calculations, average value, Application: Length Measurements (Calipers, Center Thickness Gauge, Frame Meter, Pupillometer)
3	Theory: identification of lenses, raw materials used in the production of eyeglass frames and their properties. Classification and pricing of eyeglass lenses. Application: introduction to manual and digital focometers, their use, Sph lens measurement.
4	Theory: The concept of diopters in eyeglass lenses. Correcting refractive errors with eyeglass lenses. Application: Measuring lenses with different diopters, adjusting the axis and optical center, and marking them.
5	Theory: lens identification, identification using a focimeter and spherometer Practice: Pl cyl lens measurement using a focimeter
6	Theory: lens identification, identification using a focimeter and spherometer Practice: measuring Sph cyl lenses with a focimeter
7	Midterm
8	Theory: lens identification, identification using a focimeter and spherometer Practice: measuring Sph cyl lenses with a focimeter
9	Theory: characteristics, measurements, and types of eyeglass frames. Application: selecting frames according to face shape, identifying eyeglass frames.
10	Theory: Introduction to hand tools used in adjusting eyeglass frames and adjustment methods Practice: Screwdriver and pliers usage techniques (tweezers, screw holder, needle-nose pliers, plate removal, screwdriver set, pliers hook)...
11	Theory: diamonds, photoelectric hand tools, general information about hand tools. Application: drawing and cutting glass with diamonds, creating a straight edge shape by trimming with hand tools.
12	Theory: Facial measurements and measurement techniques required for eyeglass fitting Practice: Manual method and digital pupillometer for Pd and Ph detection, methods for using measurements in fitting
13	Theory: Facial measurements and measurement techniques required for eyeglass fitting Practice: Adjusting the selected frame to the individual, trimming the lenses according to facial measurements and mounting them into the frame,
14	Theory: Information about automatic glass cutting machines, molded and non-molded machines Application: Cutting and assembling glass using a template drilling machine

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