Optometry
Follow-up Master's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied only as a single subject.
Admission to Master's degree programmes in 2024/2025 (beginning: Autumn 2024)
Submission deadline until midnight 30 April 2024.
What will you learn?
The aim of the study is to deepen the theoretical knowledge and practical skills in optometry and related fields in order to strengthen the ability to work in the interprofessional team and to use current modern techniques and to acquire the basics of scientific work in the field. The aim is also to strengthen selected educational or pedagogical skills.
Graduate, within the competences defined by the graduate's profile, applies to the qualified positions of specialized state and private workplaces focused on the issue of vision problematics, or participates in scientific research and professional studies. He/she is thus able to develop the full range of optometry.“The blind is the one who does not want to see.”
In order to achieve this goal, the choice of the school and the specific profile of the graduate is focused on the theoretical and clinical knowledge of selected biomedical or related technical and socio-scientific disciplines. Furthermore, the study contains theoretical and practical specialized subjects focused on selected areas of optometry or related fields focused on topical subjects. The master of optometry knows the principles of complex optical and ophthalmology devices, can apply the requirements of vision functions, applies in practice the structure of care for the visually impaired and its organization.
Practical training
Within the total hourly subsidy of the contact tuition program, the student has at least 10 per cent of the seminars and 25 per cent of the professional experience.
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 graduates of the master study program of optometry are employed as health service providers in program of eye care especially in specialized workplaces or clinics. In addition to clinical practice, the graduate is also employed in scientific and research work in the field or pedagogical activity. These activities are usually centered on higher education institutions or related fields.
Specifically, the graduate can work independently as an optician and optometrist in optometric outpatient clinics, opticians, ophthalmology, rehabilitation centers and other facilities, especially in the field of optical correction aids, in their selection and recommendation, in teaching vocational subjects at secondary and universities. He is a welcomed specialist especially in specialized centers. The graduate knows the legal provisions concerning all forms of visual impairment. It also focuses on related issues, such as eye-traffic, eye-sport and others, such as visually impaired and blind people.
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
- Communication Skills
- Dermatology
- Gynaecology and Obstetrics
- Internal Medicine I
- Introduction to Pedagogics
- Nursing I
- Ontogenetic Psychology
- Optics and Optometry I - lecture
- Optics and Optometry I - practice
- Preventive Medicine I
- Psychology of Personality
- School education
- Special contactology - lecture
- Special contactology - practice
- Surgery I
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2. semester
- Applied optics I - lecture
- Applied optics I-practice
- Basics of Technology
- Diploma Thesis I
- Educational Psychology
- Immunology
- Internal Medicine II
- Neurology
- Nursing II
- Optics and optometry II - lecture
- Optics and optometry II-practice
- Pediatrics I
- Preventive dentistry
- Preventive medicine II
- Refractive surgery and intraocular implantology
- Social Psychology
- Surgery II
- Teaching Practice
- Theory and Methodology of Education
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3. semester
- Aesthetic surgery and ophthalmic prosthetics
- Applied Optics II - lecture
- Applied Optics II - practicals
- Diploma Thesis II
- Neurooftalmology - lecture
- Neurooftalmology - practice
- Oncology
- Optometry I - lecture
- Optometry I - practice
- Pediatrics II
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
- Reflective Teaching Practice
- Subject Teaching Methodology - lecture
- Subject Teaching Methodology - practice
- Theory and conctruction of optical systems I - lectures
- Theory and conctruction of optical systems I - practice
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4. semester
- Applied optics III
- Applied optics III - lecture
- Behavioural optometry – lecture
- Behavioural optometry - practice
- Diploma thesis III
- Experimental biophotonics - lecture
- Experimental biophotonics - practice
- Family Medicine - lecture
- Family Medicine - practice
- Infectious Diseases
- Optometry II- practice
- Pedagogical and Psychological Diagnostics
- Theory and conctruction of optical systems II - lectures
- Theory and conctruction of optical systems II - practice
Detailed information about study plan courses
Follow-up studies
A student of a master's degree program may, after meeting the conditions for admission, continue the doctoral degree program of a related field.
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Medicine | |
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| Type of studies | Follow-up master'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 | 2 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
Do you have any questions?
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doc. Mgr. Pavel Beneš, Ph.D.
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