The latest advances in the area of optical technologies and clinical optometry compiled in a highly efficient postgraduate diploma that will optimize your effort with the best results”

Continuous training in the latest optometric technologies and treatments is essential in professional updating, preparing to take on jobs that are increasingly integrated into the healthcare system, both public and private.

The postgraduate diploma in Vision therapy. Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry covers the main fields of action for optometrists, always with the highest level of updating and with a first class teaching staff. The study plan has been designed from the perspective and experience of experts highly specialized in their modules, and immersed in the clinical world, which has led us to know the current and future training challenges.

Vision therapy is an area of optometry that deals with training and re-educating the different skills of the visual system when they are deficient, with the aim of allowing maximum visual performance with minimum effort. In other cases this reeducation is focused on the use of visual rest, and in other cases the necessary training to prevent and improve performance.

This postgraduate diploma has been clearly and robustly directed to the clinical field, preparing students to develop in this field with extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in optometry.

Students will follow modules, each of them structured in 10 topics. Each topic consists of a theoretical introduction, explanations by the professor, activities, etc., in such a way that learning becomes an enjoyable journey to high-level knowledge in Optical Instrumentation and Clinical Optometry.

In conclusion, this postgraduate diploma provides professionals with the theoretical and clinical knowledge necessary to address any of the specialties within Optics and Optometry, as well as opening the door to clinical research.

This postgraduate diploma in Vision therapy. Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry will help you keep up to date to provide comprehensive quality care to patients”

This postgraduate diploma in Vision therapy. Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry presents the characteristics of a high-level scientific, teaching and technological training. These are some of its most notable features: 

• More than 100 clinical cases presented by experts in the different specialties
• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• The latest developments in Vision Therapy. Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry
• The presentation of hands-on workshops on procedures, diagnostic and therapeutic techniques
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This postgraduate diploma is the best investment you can make when choosing a refresher program to expand your existing knowledge of Vision therapy. Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry”

The teaching staff is made up of professionals belonging to the field of  Visual Therapy and Geriatric and Pediatric Optometry, who bring to this training the experience of their work, as well as recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training experience designed to train for real-life situations.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, where the medical professional must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the specialist will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in treating patients in children with extensive experience.

All the necessary methodology for non-specialist medical professionals in the field of clinical optometry, in a specific and concrete postgraduate diploma"

We have the best didactic material, an innovative methodology and a 100% online training, which will facilitate your study"

This postgraduate diploma is designed to effectively update physician knowledge in order to provide quality care based on the latest scientific evidence that guarantees patient safety.

If you are looking for success in your profession, we can help you achieve it. We offer you the most complete training on Optical Technologies and Clinical Optometry"

General Objectives

• Learn the binocular vision anomalies that, from a clinical evidence point of view, can be treated with vision therapy
• Manage the different visual therapy techniques in accommodative, oculomotor and perceptual dysfunctions, from a multidisciplinary point of view
• Learn the most advanced examination and treatment techniques for low vision, updating new concepts and techniques to apply directly in professional clinical practice
• Acquire the necessary knowledge to assess the ocular structure and visual development of children, and the procedures based on clinical guidelines and current evidence
• Assess and diagnose visual anomalies, and plan a strategy for prevention, evaluation and intervention appropriate to patient age and condition

Objetivos específicos

• Interpret the different variables involved in a complete medical history
• Acquire criteria and procedures according to age, reason for visit and prognosis
• Consolidate the necessary bases, procedures and materials
• Thoroughly understand assessment results
• Establish an optometric diagnosis
• Consolidate the necessary bases, procedures and materials
• Know, integrate and establish consultation protocols according to optometric diagnosis
• Strengthen procedures
• Know, integrate and establish consultation protocols according to optometric diagnosis
• Deepen in the visual alterations that can occur in an acquired brain injury
• Interpret results, appropriate patient selection and intervention plan using vision therapy
• Specialize in what visual skills are involved in a grassroots and/or elite athlete
• Learning to establish consultation protocols
• Lay the foundations for evidence-based vision therapy intervention and interdisciplinary work
• Learn to develop a professional communication exercise with other professionals
• In-depth knowledge of the types of conditions that cause mild, medium and severe visual impairment
• In-depth knowledge of the visual alterations that occur in the different types of pathologies and non-ocular conditions that affect the visual system
• Learn the visual examination protocol to be performed for the detection and follow-up of the patient with low vision Know TR techniques applied to patients
• Present the latest advances in low vision aids, examination techniques, and patient and family support
• In-depth knowledge of the new protocols for examination, treatment and action in a multidisciplinary manner
• Broaden professional projection, being able to evaluate, diagnose and treat patients with low vision, who are currently neglected to a great extent by optometrists, since it is still a "young" discipline, unknown to society and a great part of eye care professionals
• Consolidate optometric goals in the pediatric population
• Deepen in the evolutionary scale of the child
• Consolidate knowledge of the visual pathway and its development
• Know and relate the neurophysiological basis of vision to the different visual skills
• Delve deep into the clinical guidelines related to the pediatric population
• Specialize in the prevalence in the pediatric population and relate it to clinical practice
• Learning how to interact with pediatric patients
• Strengthen procedures in a pediatric setting
• Learn how to take medical histories according to age and reason for the visit
• Interpret a clinical history and establish a pre-diagnosis
• Learn how to perform assessment according to patient age and condition
• Integrate and interpret clinical results
• Learn how to establish pediatric optometric diagnoses
• Learn how to create different models of referral reports and interprofessional communication

A path to achieve training and professional growth that will propel you towards a greater level of competitiveness in the employment market"