Optical Skills Suite
Discover our expanded clinical skills and optics labs for optometry students
![Students using the new Optometry teaching spaces in the University of Plymouth's InterCity Place.](https://d3bpgcke55gfwt.cloudfront.net/rails/active_storage/representations/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBelh2RUE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--4db1f9b71ef502c71a7c347dee8675382d6cb193/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdDRG9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFKWUFta0NMQUU2Q25OaGRtVnlld2s2RTNOMVluTmhiWEJzWlY5dGIyUmxTU0lIYjI0R093WlVPZ3B6ZEhKcGNGUTZEbWx1ZEdWeWJHRmpaVlE2REhGMVlXeHBkSGxwVUE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19--42754237235ba1e6f9325deaf83c5a2657141cd3/23158009.jpg)
Measuring the visual acuity using a trial frame and trial lenses
Investigating the health of the eye with a slit lamp (stereoscopic biomicroscope)
The slit lamp consists of an illumination unit that emits a focused light beam with variable width, height and angle, and a binocular microscope unit with different magnification levels
This instrument allows the three-dimensional visualisation and measurement of the fine anatomy of the eye