Diploma in Community Eye Health

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Community Eye
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March – 3 April 2009
SHORT COURSE
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Diploma in Community Eye Health
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Course Organiser
Ms Marcia Zondervan
Aims of the Course
Teaching Methods
The course will be taught by staff of the International Centre for Eye
Health, who have experience in community eye health programme
administration in many developing countries.
This three month course is aimed at ophthalmologists, optometrists and
eye care managers who want to know more about the major blinding eye
diseases and the VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative. It is especially
suitable for eye care professionals including ophthalmologists, optometrists
and project managers who want to receive training in Community Eye
Health, but cannot be away from their place of work for one year.
Assessment
Setting & Programme
Course fees are updated on the School’s website as soon as they are confirmed.
Fees should be paid at least one month in advance of the start of the course. If
you are being sponsored please provide a letter from your sponsor guaranteeing
funding one month in advance in order to secure your place.
All students will take four compulsory modules - these modules form
part of the MSc in Public Health for Eye Care. Diploma students are taught
alongside the MSc students in these modules.
C1 & C2: Compulsory modules:
C1: Childhood Eye Disease and Ocular Infections
C2: Non-communicable Eye Disease
D1 & D2: Compulsory modules:
D1: How to plan and Implement a Vision 2020: The Right to Sight project
D2: Skills, Resources and Technology for Vision 2020: The Right to Sight
Assessments will be taken at the end of each module and a written
strategy document of no more than 5,000 words must be submitted.
Course Fees
Julbert Kadimpeul from Senegal, Diploma in Community Eye Health
alumnus, 2008
I am in charge of Bignona Eye Unit which is located in Casamance (South
Senegal) as a Cataract Surgeon. My job is to develop eye care programmes for:
• Prevention of avoidable eye diseases
• Treatment of eye diseases at
secondary level
• Promotion of eye health (training health workers in basic eye care)
The final weeks of the course are spent researching and writing up a strategy
document. The aim is to provide students with the opportunity to relate the
contents of the course to their own working situations or field of interest by
developing a practical document. The strategy document outlines the plans
which will be instituted in their home country.
My training in Community Eye Health
in the ICEH was important for me as
it allowed me to get a clear view of my
job. I am now able to properly manage
an eye unit. I think that the most
important thing is knowledge and to
be able to apply it for the good of the
poor population in my area.
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR EYE HEALTH
At least 75% of blind people can have their sight restored, or are blind
Strategy Document
The International Centre for Eye Health (ICEH) was established by
Professor Barrie Jones in 1980 at the Institute of Ophthalmology. ICEH
moved to the LSHTM in 2002, where it is led by Professor Allen Foster
and forms part of the Department of Clinical Research in the Faculty of
Infectious & Tropical Diseases. The main aim of the ICEH is to facilitate a
reduction in blindness with a particular emphasis on low income countries.
There are an estimated 45 million blind people in the world and 314
million are visually impaired - and the majority of these people live in
low income countries (based on WHO factsheet 2009).
from preventable causes. In 1999 the International Agency for the
Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and the World Health Organization
(WHO) jointly launched “VISION 2020: The Right to Sight”. The goal of
VISION 2020: The Right to Sight is to eliminate unnecessary blindness,
promote good vision and thereby improve the quality of life of people with
visual loss. The work of ICEH supports the goals of VISION 2020: The
Right to Sight.