MSc Community Eye Health

Dates: 25th September 2006 - 14th September 2007
Cost: £13,750 (Overseas) or £4,370 (Home)
Venue: The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc in Community Eye Health is designed to equip eye care professionals and planners with the knowledge and skills to reduce blindness and visual disability. Training in community eye health extends the training in clinical ophthalmology applied to individual patients, to a consideration of the eye health of whole populations - how these can be assessed, resourced and evaluated.

The course is designed in keeping with the aims, priorities and strategies of VISION 2020. VISION 2020 is a World Health Organisation programme designed to eliminate avoidable and treatable blindness, globally, by 2020. Applicants are expected to be health care professionals involved in eye care and have relevant work experience.

Course duration is one year (full-time) but it is available on a part-time basis over two years.

Application forms are available from the Registry, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP, UK. Telephone: +44 (0)20 7299 4646 fax: +44(0)20 7323 0638, e-mail: registry@lshtm.ac.uk or MScCEH@lshtm.ac.uk
Website: www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/masters/msceh.html

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