Ophthalmic Medical Assistant - Technical Diploma
The Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program allows students to work at their own pace to gain the skills and knowledge necessary for employment in ophthalmic practices, optometric practices, and retail optical settings. Students apply technical skills to perform prescreening and specialty testing, assist with dispensing glasses and contact lenses, and perform office management duties including maintaining patient information, and billing and insurance processes. A Lakeshore Technical College program offered at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. For more information call toll-free: 888-468-6582.
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Program Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition: $5,199, Books: $461, Supplies: $325
Contact an NWTC admissions advisor to find the best way to pay for this program.
Estimates based on in-state residency. Please visit the following URL to learn more about tuition and fees for this program. https://www.nwtc.edu/admissions-and-aid/paying-for-college/tuition-and-fees?ProgramCode=315164
Requirements for Program Entry
- ADMISSION AND FIRST SEMESTER ENROLLMENT STEPS
- - Submit online application.
- - Complete background check and pay for applicable processing fee.
- - Complete the online Student Success Questionnaire.
- - Complete Technical Standards form.
- -Complete online Student Success Tutorial prior to meeting your program counselor.
- - Schedule your 1st Time Program Counseling/Registration Session with your assigned program counselor to plan your first semester schedule, review your entire plan of study and discuss the results of the Student Success Questionnaire.
- - *Submit transcripts and test scores (optional, highly recommended): College transcripts, along with high school transcripts and test scores from within the last five years, used for course registration. Official transcripts needed for transferring college credit(s) and for financial aid purposes.
Program Outcomes
- Apply technical skills to perform eye care prescreening and specialty testing procedures on patients accurately and efficiently.
- Apply technical skills to educate and assist patients with glasses and/or contact lenses to meet their eye health and visual needs.
- Perform business office procedures such as maintaining appointment schedules, maintaining patient records, processing insurance reimbursement, and billing patients.
- Demonstrate professional ethics, honesty, and respect when dealing with doctors, patients, and co-workers.
- Communicate clearly and professionally in both written and oral formats.
Curriculum
The Ophthalmic Medical Assistant Technical Diploma is a three semester collaborative program between Lakeshore Technical College and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Upon graduation, a student will have completed 32 credits.
First Semester
Second Semester
Third Semester
Course Descriptions
Focuses on the component parts of medical terms: prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Students practice formation, analysis and reconstruction of terms. Emphasis on spelling, definition and pronunciation. Introduction to operative, diagnostic, therapeutic and symptomatic terminology of all body systems, as well as systemic and surgical terminology.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringStudents learn to recognize human body structure and function in health and disease states. Students explore the causes, signs, and symptoms of diseases of the major body systems as well as the diagnostic procedures, usual treatment, prognosis, and prevention of diseases commonly diagnosed and treated in the medical office setting.(Prerequisite/Corequisite: 10-501-101, Medical Terminology).
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringPrepares the learner to evaluate basic concepts. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirement met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to assess frame characteristics. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to compare ophthalmic lens selections. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to demonstrate eyewear alignment and adjustment. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to demonstrate frame styling and purchasing while operating a dispensary. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to measure ophthalmic lens power and the importance of ocular protection. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to measure and compare multifocal lenses. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to measure ophthalmic prism and its ocular purpose. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to investigate front desk responsibilities and role in patient triage. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to demonstrate practice administration. (Prerequisite: 31516331 Front Desk and Patient Triage and 31516317 Eyewear Adjustment and 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.
Course Typically Offered:Prepares students to display professionalism and perform within ethical and legal boundaries in the health care setting. Students maintain confidentiality, examine legal aspects of ambulatory healthcare, perform quality improvement procedures, examine legal and bioethical issues, and demonstrate awareness of diversity.
Course Typically Offered: Summer Fall SpringIntroduces students to medication classification, basic pharmacology principles, and supplements. Students apply basic pharmacodynamics to identify common medications and calculate dosages in preparation for medication administration. (Corequisites: 10-501-101, Medical Terminology; 31-509-302, Human Body in Health/Disease)
Course Typically Offered: Fall SpringPrepares learner to differentiate ocular diseases, pharmaceuticals and therapeutics. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to collect baseline patient history and visual acuity. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to measure functional vision. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares learners to measure refractive error. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to evaluate the cornea. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to evaluate tear quality. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to demonstrate patient pre-testing. (Prerequisite: 31516351 Administration Clinical and 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to measure intraocular pressure. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to assess specialty glaucoma testing. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to justify soft contact lens wear. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to justify rigid contact lens wear. (Prerequisite: 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
Course Typically Offered:Prepares the learner to demonstrate specialty testing and patient education. (Corequisite: 31516352 Patient Pre-testing Clinical and 315164, Ophthalmic Medical Assistant program requirements met.)
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