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Optician (Second Education)
Associate TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 QF-EHEA: Short Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 5

Program Training Goals

(The objectives determined in line with the purpose of the program are stated below.)
1 To know professional authority and responsibilities
2 Having information about basic vision devices such as glasses, contact lenses and low vision devices
3 To be able to provide adaptation to the user by selection, sale and preparation of basic vision devices by prescription.
4 Numbered spectacle lenses and contact lenses can be measured and set up for mounting.
5 Be able to use equipments and machines to prepare glasses.
6 To have enough knowledge about basic optical instruments.
7 To have general knowledge about basic mathematics, chemistry, physics and physics of geometric optics
8 Having basic information about eye and vision health and diseases.
9 Be able to have basic knowledge in human anatomy, physiology and general public health areas.
10 Having the consciousness of professional ethics rules.
11 To be able to follow the technological developments related to the profession and apply them to the field of study.
12 Being aware of the importance of lifelong learning and having self-improvement by following in-service training, courses, seminars, symposiums, panels and publications
13 To be able to use general and professional software programs, automation systems.
14 To have knowledge and skills about administrative responsibility and management of professional enterprises.
15 By observing health and safety precautions related to his / her profession, he / she can protect his / her coldness and apply first aid in unusual circumstances.
16 Establishing healthy human relationships with people in the workplace and people they serve
17 Being able to have individual awareness by developing oneself in social and cultural sense.
18 Become entrepreneurial individuals who have the ability of interdisciplinary team work, have social responsibility consciousness
19 To have knowledge about Ataturk's Principles and Revolution History
20 Being a contemporary individual with knowledge of Turkish language and usage, knowledge of foreign languages at a level that can follow professional developments.
21 In Turkey, the form of organization of health services and to understand its place in the organization of their discipline
22 To be able to understand the importance of a protective perspective in health care services, to develop attitudes to care not to do so in service provision
23 To be able to know basic epidemiological concepts and to use these concepts appropriately in their professional practices
24 To be able to create and analyze the database for the profession
24 To be able to create and analyze the database for the profession
25 Being aware of individual awareness by developing oneself in social and cultural sense
26 To be able to regularly participate in various scientific, cultural, artistic and sports activities that facilitate students' understanding of university life by perceiving the concept of university