The courses offered by the Istituto Zaccagnini represent the most extensive and comprehensive educational and training program in Italy for those who wish to work and grow as vision care professionals.
The Two-Year Post-Diploma Course for Opticians is available both as a full-time program and for working students. It awards the legally required qualification to practice as a licensed Optician, a regulated profession at the core of the entire optical sector.
The Specialization Courses in Optometry, offered as a one-year full-time program or a two-year program for working students, build on the Optician’s education. They provide all the skills needed to address people’s visual needs and to perform the professional activities reserved for this role.
Finally, the Advanced Courses and Clinical Masters, organized by the IBZ Vision Sciences Department, provide ongoing training and professional development, keeping practitioners aligned with clinical, scientific, and technological advancements and fostering collaboration with other healthcare professions.
Optometry, the Optician's upgrade
Courses in Optometry at the Zaccagnini Institute allow a quality leap in the practice of the profession. The programs and syllabus, the most complete and wide-ranging in Italy, provide for many practical exercises, clinical experiences and in-depth scientific studies.
Available in two modes - one-year full-time and two-year part-time - they are held at the Bologna and Milan locations.
The Advanced Course in Refractive Techniques provides the knowledge and clinical skills to perform an advanced and customised refractive examination with the aim of prescribing each ametropic person with customised vision correction or compensation tools in line with their needs, expectations and lifestyle.
The eye is also a postural receptor.
Clinical Masters in Vision and Posture provide the knowledge and skills of clinical optometry to understand and assess the correlation between posture and the visual system with the aim of providing a corrective or compensatory ophthalmic device that also provides people with good balance and collaborate with practitioners of other postural receptors.
Current lifestyles subject vision to stress due to the prolonged use of binocular vision skills. The Master's course deals with the different skills and areas of binocular vision together with related visual analysis methodologies, with the aim of formulating ophthalmic prescriptions for the correct simultaneous use of both eyes.
