About Manchester

Question 1

What is special about Manchester?

Answer 1

-Longest teaching optometry school in the UK.

Question 2

Where to get patient contact and from when?

Answer 2

-Located conveniently close to Manchester Eye Hospital.
-Early patient contact, starting from 2nd semester of Year 1.
-Also can use Uni’s Vision Centre

Question 3

What’s special about the Manchester Eye Hospital?

Answer 3

-One of the largest Eye Hospitals in Europe.
-Brilliant place to gain experience.
-Close proximity and relations with Optom department at UoM.

Question 4

Where are the practicals carried out?

Answer 4

-Carried out in laboratories.
-Provides opportunity to develop skills such as lens measurement and frame fitting.

Question 5

Anything new with Optom department?

Answer 5

-£4 million refurbishment spent on the Carys Bannister Building.
-Greatly improving quality of learning at Manchester.

Question 6

PPD

Answer 6

-Aim to help students develop oral and written communication, IT, teamwork, problem solving skills.
-They are run throughout the course.

Question 7

Extracurricular

Answer 7

-Looking to get involved with the historic cricket and rugby teams at UoM.
-Provides opportunity to play at high-level.