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Developing Clinical Skills offers a practical guide to three important techniques used in optometric practice.

This programme consists of three individual sections covering the practice of:

  • Contact tonometry
  • Binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy (at the slit-lamp)
  • Gonioscopy.

First published: November 2012
Last reviewed: September 2024

    Unit 1 - Contact tonometry (~15 mins)►

    Learning outcomes

    Learning outcomes

    Clinical Practice

    s.5 Keep your knowledge and skills up to date

    • Understand how to measure intraocular pressure using a contact technique. 
    • Understand how to undertake and interpret van Herick technique.
    • Understand the use of slit lamp and indirect lenses for assessment of the fundus.
    • Understand the use of contact procedures with slit lamp for angle assessment.

      Unit 1 - Contact tonometry (~15 mins)►