This course is intended for training beginner, intermediate, and advanced level technicians who are learning more about pupil function and is presented online through Eye-Courses.com. The course will explain the basics of pupil function including the pupil nerve pathways from the eye to the brain and back. This will allow for in-depth training for those technicians wanting in-depth material on pupils.

This course teaches the following:

  • List the pupil’s functions
  • Identify the muscles which control pupil size
  • Describe the 3 responses which involve the pupil
  • Define afferent and efferent pathways in relation to the pupil
  • Trace the sympathetic light pathway from the brain to the pupil dilator
  • Trace the parasympathetic light pathway from the eye to the brain and back to the iris
  • Identify how to test and document pupil function
  • Explain what an APD looks
  • List and identify pupil dysfunctions
  • Describe how to test for a Horner’s syndrome

 

This course should take approximately 1 hour to complete.

This course has been approved by the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.