ABDO
Level 6
QN: 610/3036/3
Curriculum Active
ABDO Level 6 Diploma in Ophthalmic Dispensing
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ABDO. Classified as a End-Point Assessment. Total guided learning hours: 1080 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 6
Awarding Body
ABDO
Syllabus Units
15 Units
Guided Hours
1080 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Advanced Ophthalmic Dispensing Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Assessment of Refractive Error
- Spectacle dispensing
- Prescription analysis
- Ocular abnormalities and Special Optical Appliances (SOA)
2
Advanced Theory in Ophthalmic Dispensing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Fields of view
- Tinted, coated and protective lenses
- Multifocal lenses
- Special lenses
- Visual Task Analysis and Dispensing
- Dispensing high powered lenses
- Facial anatomy and frame fitting
3
Advanced Theory of Ophthalmic Lenses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Prismatic effect
- Cylindrical lenses
- Effectivity, vertex powers and accurate transposition
- Aberrations and spectacle lens design
4
Ocular Anatomy and Pathology
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Anatomical terminology
- The eye and ocular adnexa
- Ocular conditions and systemic disorders
- Pharmacology
5
Ophthalmic Dispensing Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Single vision lenses
- Frame measurements and frame materials
- Spectacle fitting and facial measurements
- Single vision prescription analysis and lens description
6
Paediatric Dispensing
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Practice environment
- Paediatric prescribing
- Developmental anatomy
- Frame design
- Paediatric special optical appliances
- Further anatomical considerations
7
Patient-Centred Care
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Communication in ophthalmic dispensing
8
Portfolio and Practice Visit
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Assessment of portfolio
- Practice Visit Assessment
9
Practitioner Development
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Research Skills
- Lifelong Learning
- Reflective Practice
- Supervision, mentoring and delegating activities
- Maintaining own health
10
Standards of Practice
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Acts and bodies
- General Ophthalmic Services (GOS)
- Business management
- Safeguarding and Consent
11
The Assessment and Management of Refractive Errors
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Optics of the eye, ametropia, and its correction
- Accommodation
- Ophthalmic instruments
- Binocular vision
- Vision and vision perception
- Clinical Decision Making
12
The Assessment and Management of Visual Impairment
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Visual impairment in practice
- General assessment of Visual Impairment
- Magnification in visual impairment
- Availability and dispensing of appliances for visual impairment
- Rehabilitation
13
The Principles of Contact Lens Wear
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Contact lens types
- Selection and fit of contact lenses
- Contact lens advice and aftercare
14
Theory of General Optics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Propagation of light formation
- Refraction at a plane surface.4. Refraction at curved surfaces
15
Theory of Ophthalmic Lenses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Lens materials
- Parameters of sphero-cylindrical lenses
- Parameters of toric lenses
- Line foci and disc of least confusion
- Lens measure and lens thickness
- Ophthalmic prisms and prismatic effects
- Elements of ametropia
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/3036/3
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ABDO
- Qualification Type
- End-Point Assessment
- Operational Start
- Sept 2023
- Operational End
- Aug 2030