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Distance mode course for opticians

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Booklet ‘Sight 2010' was launched

CHENNAI: Sankara Nethralaya recently launched a distance mode course for opticians as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the Elite School of Optometry (ESO).

The course, to be offered jointly by Sankara Nethralaya and the Association of British Dispensing Opticians College (ABDO), United Kingdom, will provide opticians with professional acumen in not just dispensing glasses and lenses but will also give them the knowledge to be able to identify some of the common eye problems such as refractive errors.

The one-year fellowship diploma course will be conducted under the aegis of the ESO and faculty from the ABDO will conduct some of the classes. ESO was launched with the seed money donated by C.K. Shah who was an optician, said S. S. Badrinath, chairman emeritus of Sankara Nethralaya.

As part of the celebration, a three-day event titled ESO International Vision Science and Optometry conference has also been organised. Among the papers to be presented is one on the evolution of vision and computers and their impact on vision.

Swami Sukhabodhananda, who inaugurated the event and delivered the benedictory speech also released book of abstracts of the papers to be presented at the conference.

He honoured the long-serving doctors and well-wishers of Sankara Nethralaya. The logo of ESO was released and a booklet titled ‘Sight 2010' was also launched on the occasion.

The speech of Jay M. Enoch, Dean Emeritus, School of Optometry, University of California, was read out by Dr. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan.

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