Overview of Ophthalmology 251 for AY 2022-23
Welcome to Ophtha 251. This is a 2-week course, split into 1 week per semester. Your course coordinators are Drs. Trina Ranche and Franz Cruz. Your resident monitors are Drs. Kenjee Dee, Ricky Fontanilla, Ino Villacastin, Tara Mendoza, Zad Velasquez, and Koji Lim.
At the end of your two weeks, you should be able to:
- evaluate a patient with an eye problem
- perform a basic ophthalmologic evaluation
- diagnose common out-patient and emergency eye conditions
- formulate management plans for patients with eye conditions
- demonstrate proper attitudes towards patients and their families
- appreciate the team approach in the management of cases
- apply the principles of evidence-based medicine in your approach to cases
- demonstrate noteworthy attitudes, ethics and professionalism
Kindly refer to the INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN file for more details on what we hope to accomplish.
Your activities have been adjusted for face-to-face learning combined with asynchronous and synchronous distance learning. You will have posts at the SOJR Out-patient Department, Ward, ER, and Operating Room. Here in the VLE, there are lectures, videos, and short formative (non-graded) quizzes for your review. You may do all of these at your chosen time.You also have a project that will focus on community-oriented medical education, which will be due in Phase 2. There are required synchronous small group discussions, 1 per week. At the end of the academic year, you will have a final exam. Please read the SYLLABUS for more information about the course activities and evaluation scheme.
Your main reference for this course is the textbook SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN OPHTHALMOLOGY (3rd edition by Valbuena & Castillo). Other useful links will be provided in the VLE.
If there are other concerns, you may bring them up individually or as a group. You may book consultation times with Dr. Ranche directly via Viber/Whatsapp/Telegram (+63917 856 1274) or email (ftranche@up.edu.ph), or course them through your resident monitors. To safeguard a healthy balance between our work and personal time, please understand that your course coordinators and resident monitors cannot be available 24/7, but we will try to address your concerns as quickly as possible.
After every teaching-learning encounter, please evaluate your teachers using the Student Evaluation for Teaching Effectiveness (SET). At the end of Phase 2, please evaluate the course using the Course Evaluation by Students (CEBS).