Work placements encourage the acquisition of skills that prepare them for professional activities, facilitate employability and promote entrepreneurship.
In order to carry out the supervised work placements, the students must have passed:
- The first three years of the degree (180 credits) if the work placement is to be done in the second semester.
- The first three years of the degree (180 credits) and the compulsory subjects of the 4th year if the work placement is to be done in the 1st semester.
However, students who apply for a scholarship that requires them to be enrolled in all the subjects they have left to finish their studies may carry out a conditional enrolment in the common enrolment period. This conditional enrolment will only give the right to the supervised work placements if the requirements are met in time. If this is not done, the Academic Management Unit will automatically cancel the enrolment for this subject.
Work placement agreements
The Faculty of Optics and Optometry has signed agreements with various public and private entities for work placements in SERGAS hospitals and supervised work placements in various optics companies.
- Agreement with the National College of Opticians-Optometrists. Agreement to carry out work placement in Optics and Optometry
- Agreement with SERGAS. Agreement for work placements in the Galician Health Service Hospitals.
- Agreement with the Department of Employment and Social Welfare. Agreement to carry put work placements in Geriatric Optometry in the Centres for the Elderly dependent on the Department of Employment and Social Welfare of the Xunta de Galicia
- Agreement with General Óptica. Agreement to carry put supervised work placements, throughout the national territory, in the centres associated with General Óptica
- Agreement with Federópticos. Agreement to carry put supervised work placements, throughout the national territory, in the centres associated with Federópticos
- Agreement with Multiópticas. Agreement to carry put supervised work placements, throughout the national territory, in the centres associated with Multiópticas
- Agreement with Soloptical. Agreement to carry put supervised work placements, throughout the national territory, in the centres associated with Soloptical
The subject of External Work Placements is an obligatory second semester subject, of 8 ECTS, in which students carry out 160 hours of work placements related to the contents of the Master.
The Faculty has agreements with the following centres to carry out work placements:
- USC Optometry Service
- USC Biology Research Centre
- Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
- CIMUS (Singular Centre for Research on Molecular Medicine and Diseases)
- Amaro Optical Centre
- Galician Optometry Centre ( COGA )
- Videre Optometry Centre
- Urigüen Optical Centre
- Federópticos Bernárdez Vigo
- BoaVisión Optical Centre
- Eyetools Optometry Centre
- María González Optometry and Audiology Centre.