Optometry Program - - - Required Equipment List

Equipment Package Information and Computer Requirements

Last modified: Jan. 22, 2001

First Year

Second Year

Third Year

Fall

Spring

Fall

Spring

Fall

Any activies in clinic require:

Short white consultation jacket and current identification badge
All image displays are examples only and may not represent actual equipment supplied in package.

First Year - Fall

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS:

	Scientific calculator--battery powered (not solar)
	   no alphabetic or programming capability

	Clear transparent protractor--measures angles

	Clear transparent 30°/60° triangle--8 to 10 inches

	Accurate white mm rule--approx. 150 mm  (HILCO)

	Pen light--battery powered

	8-1/2" x 11" graph paper--10 mm per cm., 1 pkg.

	Geneva lens clock

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OTM-1

	Diagnostic Kit (Retinoscope, Ophthalmoscope and 
          transilluminator with 2 rechargeable handles)

	Trial lens set (Full aperture, 
          minus cylinder to at least 3.00 D. & carrying case)

	Trial frame

	Schematic eye [alternate version]

	Ishihara Pseudoisochromatic Color Plates
          (at least 2 for each lab section)--small set ok

	Randot Stereo Test (Bernell--SORDT, not "E")

	Adult Reduced Snellen near visual acuity card

	Pediatric near point card--(Bernell BC 2207)

	Combined cover paddle occluder and red Maddox rod

	Lens ± 2 Diopter Flippers

	Multiple pin hole occluder - holes approx. 1 mm diameter

	Horizontal prism bar (Bernell AHB15)

	Roll-up cm tape measure at least 1 m. long.

	Adult Fixation target--(20/30 letters or smaller)

	Child Fixation target--(accommodative size symbols)

	Clear 78 Diopter condensing lens
          --90 D or Superfield lens is second choice

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First Year - Spring

OTM-2

	Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope (BIO) 
          with teaching mirror, power supply and case.

	Clear 20 Diopter condensing lens--large diameter

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Second Year - Fall and Spring

OPHTHALMIC OPTICS LAB:

        Frame Adjusting Kit
 	  Optical screwdriver

	  Snipe nose plier

	  Nose Pad plier

 	  Half nylon gripping plier

	  Wide jaw angling plier

	Wax (china marker) pencil

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OTM-3

	Goldman 3 mirror Gonioscopy lens

	Jewelers Forcep--extra fine point

	Blood pressure cuff - Sphygmomanometer and stethoscope 
          (preferably with bell side for carotid auscultation)

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OTM-4

        4-mirror Gonio Lens (Posner, Zeiss or Sussman)

	Lacrimal dilator--Castroviejo (double ended)

	Lacrimal cannula--straight

	Scleral depressor--double ended preferred

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BINOCULAR VISION:

	Worth 4 dot test

	Bernell 4 well lens holder to accept trial set lenses 
          (Bernell BCLH 4)

	MEM cards

	Black eye patch with elastic band

	Broken wheel visual acuity cards

	Skiascopic Lens bar for retinoscopy

	Prism Flippers--8 BI/12 BO

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Third Year - Fall and Spring

CONTACT LENSES:

	6X to 7X Comparator (or CL Loupe [backside]) 
          with straight line scale reticule in mm.

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