
- Degree awarded
- PG Credit
- Duration
- 11 weeks
- Entry requirements
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All applicants need to either be: (a) qualified optometrists; or (b) UK registered healthcare professionals currently working in a glaucoma clinic and who have experience of Goldmann applanation tonometry and optic disc assessment with indirect biomicroscopy. Candidates must be regularly engaged in using both of these skills in day-to-day clinical practice in order to be likely to meet the standard required for the practical component of this course
- Number of places/applicants
- Glaucoma - 30 places
- Macular Degeneration - 10 places
- Retinal Vascular Disease - 10 places
- How to apply
You can apply for one of our CPD units by completing our online application form . See the Advice to applicants section for details of the supporting documents we require with your form.
Course options
Full-time | Part-time | Full-time distance learning | Part-time distance learning | |
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Modular | N | Y | N | N |
Course overview
- Improve your understanding and knowledge of treatment of glaucoma (accredited by the College of Optometrists), macular degeneration and retinal vascular disease.
- Hear from academic and clinically qualified staff at the University and Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.
- Go on to complete our MSc in Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences if you wish.
- Study at a university ranked 8th in the UK for medicine and 7th for biological sciences (QS World University Rankings 2020).
Fees
For entry in the academic year beginning September 2021, the tuition fees are as follows:
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Modular (part-time)
UK students (per annum): £1,250 per 15 credit module
International, including EU, students (per annum): £2,800 per 15 credit module
Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.
The fees quoted above will be fully inclusive for the course tuition, administration and computational costs during your studies.
All fees for entry will be subject to yearly review and incremental rises per annum are also likely over the duration of courses lasting more than a year for UK/EU students (fees are typically fixed for International students, for the course duration at the year of entry). For general fees information please visit: postgraduate fees . Always contact the department if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.
Self-funded international applicants for this course will be required to pay a deposit of £1000 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. This deposit will only be refunded if immigration permission is refused. We will notify you about how and when to make this payment.
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Contact details
- School/Faculty
- Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health
- Telephone
- +44 (0)161 275 1798
- pgtaught.optometry@manchester.ac.uk
- Website
- https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/cpd/subjects/ophthalmology/
- School/Faculty
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health