Optometry, MOptom (Hons)

This optometry course equips students to make a meaningful impact on individuals with vision impairments and sight loss. At City, learners access cutting-edge clinics and labs, such as the City Sight Optometry Clinic, along with diverse placement and employment opportunities in London. The department, renowned for its experts in optometry, ophthalmology, and related disciplines, covers key topics including optics, eye biology, diseases, and therapeutic solutions like contact and ophthalmic lenses. In the final year, students develop clinical skills by examining patients of all ages with various ocular conditions.The curriculum builds from foundational sciences in the first year to advanced clinical training in subsequent years, including modules on optics, ophthalmic lenses, eye diseases, and visual perception. Assessment methods encompass coursework, written exams, clinical observations, and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), culminating in a final-year project. The program is accredited by the General Optical Council and ranks first in London and second in the UK for Health Professions per the Guardian University Guide 2025.

From your very first day at City, you will build a foundation in the basic sciences that underpin optometry and start your clinical training. Lectures are supported by tutorials and laboratory-based work. Core modules include:

• Optics;

• Ophthalmic lenses and dispensing I

• Neural biology and general pathology

• Clinical skills I

• Visual optics and measurement techniques

In your second year, you will expand and enhance your clinical skills, developing an understanding of ocular and systemic disease coupled with the neuroscience of visual perception. Clinical confidence and competence is supported by expert guidance from optometrists who will teach you how to use the latest technologies to investigate ocular abnormalities, thus preparing you for the final-year clinics. Core modules include:

• Clinical skills II

• Contact lenses

• Introduction to Eye Disease

• Binocular Vision

• Visual perception

• Ophthalmic lenses and Dispensing II

In your third year, you will develop the knowledge and clinical skills that form the basis of optometric practice by seeing a diverse range of patients under supervision at our brand new City Sight Optometry Clinic. You will carry out full eye examinations and gain specialist skills in primary care, paediatrics, binocular vision, contact lenses, dispensing and visual impairment clinics. You will also observe patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital, one of the world's leading eye hospitals. Core modules include:

• Eye disease and therapeutics

• Clinical skills and professional practice

• Binocular vision, paediatrics and visual impairment

• Contact lenses II

- Research studies