Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

CCOG for OMT 270 Winter 2025


Course Number:
OMT 270
Course Title:
Ocular Motility
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture Hours:
20
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Explores ocular motility, associated testing and measurements required for evaluation. Emphasizes understanding the presentation, characteristics and history of the strabismus patient. Discusses amblyopia treatment and therapies. Prerequisites: (WR 115 and RD 115) or IRW 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement, and admission to the OMT Program or Program Director approval. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Effectively evaluate patients for the presence of phorias and tropias.
2. Measure ocular deviations with prisms.
3. Identify pathological conditions that manifest with ocular deviations.
4. Evaluate patients for ocular muscle imbalances.

Course Activities and Design

The class will be presented by means of lecture/discussion, audio-visual presentations, handouts and demonstrations. Guest speakers and field trips may be utilized by the instructor as a means of assisting the student in mastering course goals and objectives.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

At the beginning of the course, the instructor will detail the methods used to evaluate student progress and the criteria for assigning a course grade. The methods may include one or more of the following tools: examinations, quizzes, homework assignments, research papers.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

The student will demonstrate understanding of the following themes, issues, concepts, and development of the following skills:
THEMES, ISSUES, CONCEPTS

1. Extraocular Muscles/Strabismus

2. Amblyopia

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

Extraocular Muscles/Strabismus

  1. Name the extraocular muscles and their function

  2. Take a relevant history for a strabismus workup

  3. Describe how to perform the basic measurement procedures in the screening examination of a patient with strabismus

  4. Define stereo acuity

  5. Describe cover/uncover test, alternate cover test, Krimsky and 4 BO prism, Hirschberg tests

  6. Distinguish between phoria and tropia

  7. Distinguish between ductions, versions and vergences; describe function and anomalies

  8. Fusional convergence amplitudes

  9. Describe the diagnostic positions of gaze

  10. Define stereo acuity

  11. Explain the object of motility testing and why binocular function is important

  12. Explain fusion, diplopia and suppression

  13. Describe use of the Maddox rod, Worth 4-dot, red glass and Bagolini lenses in testing for fusion

  14. Describe various methods of assessing visual acuity and their significance in strabismus

  15. Describe how to perform vision screening in preschool children using appropriate testing methods for the age

  16. Describe the physiologic mechanisms (motor and sensory) implicit in strabismus management

  17. Describe the role of surgical versus medical (including orthoptic) management of strabismus

  18. Describe the characteristics, presentation and natural history of pseudostrabismus, congenital esotropia, accommodative esotropia and intermittent deviations

  19. Distinguish between comitant and incomitant deviations

  20. Define near point of convergence and near point of accommodation

  21. Discuss the significance of primary and secondary deviations

  22. Define restrictive strabismus and describe the various types

  23. Discuss nystagmus and its consequences

      Amblyopia

  1. Define amblyopia

  2. Describe the types of amblyopia and methods for detection

  3. Name the tests that may be necessary to diagnose amblyopia

  4. Distinguish possible treatment methods (therapy) for amblyopia

  5. Explain the use/effectiveness of convergence training