Scienze propedeutiche

The Foundations of Preparatory Sciences integrated course aims to provide students with a broad cultural and methodological background, essential for understanding the physical, statistical, IT, and epistemological processes that underpin orthoptic practice and healthcare professions.
The course is designed to develop skills in the quantitative analysis of physiological and instrumental phenomena, IT and digital competencies for managing clinical data and scientific documentation, proficiency in statistical methods for critical appraisal of the literature and clinical research, and a critical and reflective perspective on scientific methods and paradigms in biomedical knowledge.

At the end of the integrated course, students will be able to:
understand and apply the fundamental concepts of physics relevant to the interpretation of physiological and instrumental phenomena in ophthalmology;
effectively use IT and digital tools for managing clinical data, scientific documentation, and professional development;
apply the principles of descriptive and inferential statistics to critically evaluate scientific literature and participate in clinical and epidemiological studies;
understand and critically reflect on the logical and philosophical foundations of the scientific method and on the role of paradigms in shaping medical knowledge.