Course provides both diagnosis and management of ocular problems, physical and pathological, and training in dealing with a range of physiological and environmental factors that may have an impact on ocular health; much of the clinical teaching is undertaken in the University Optometry Clinic, which contains a wide range of ophthalmic equipment for both teaching and research and is a public access primary care clinic; clinical experience is also provided in NHS hospitals; there are 6 modules of study in each year.