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Below are the DOCK Topics for Neuro-Ophthalmology/Orbit organized by sections. These Topics provide a high-level view of the information that may be assessed in the ABO’s DOCK examination.
| Diagnostic Tests (4 topics) | |
| 1. Automated static perimetry | |
| 2. Computed tomography | |
| 3. Confrontation visual field testing | |
| 4. Magnetic resonance imaging | |
| High Intracranial Pressure/Headache (7 topics) | |
| 5. Chronic papilledema | |
| 6. Early papilledema | |
| 7. Fully developed papilledema | |
| 8. Headache associated with increased intracranial pressure | |
| 9. Migraine | |
| 10. Pseudotumor cerebri (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension) | |
| Infection (5 topics) | |
| 11. Aspergillosis | |
| 12. Mucor | |
| 13. Orbital cellulitis | |
| 14. Syphilis | |
| 15. Syphilis (optic neuropathy) | |
| Miscellaneous (8 topics) | |
| 16. Cavernous sinus syndrome | |
| 17. Chiasmal syndromes | |
| 18. Eyelid Retraction | |
| 19. Guillain-Barré syndrome | |
| 20. Multiple cranial nerve palsies | |
| 21. Myasthenia gravis | |
| 22. Ptosis | |
| 23. Retrochiasmal afferent system dysfunction | |
| Motility (9 topics) | |
| 24. Abducens nerve palsy | |
| 25. Abducens nuclear lesion | |
| 26. Aberrant regeneration of the third nerve | |
| 27. Internuclear ophthalmoplegia | |
| 28. Oculomotor nerve lesion (3rd cranial nerve palsy/paresis) | |
| 29. Oculomotor nuclear lesion | |
| 30. Paretic binocular diplopia | |
| 31. Restrictive binocular diplopia | |
| 32. Trochlear lesions | |
| Optic Neuropathy (9 topics) | |
| 33. Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) | |
| 34. Demyelinating optic neuritis | |
| 35. Giant cell arteritis (Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy - AION) | |
| 36. Giant cell arteritis (myopathy) | |
| 37. Infiltrative optic neuropathy | |
| 38. Multiple sclerosis | |
| 39. Optic atrophy | |
| 40. Papillitis | |
| 41. Sarcoid optic neuropathy | |
| Orbit (9 topics) | |
| 42. Idiopathic orbital inflammatory disease (Non-specific Orbital Inflammation, or NSOI) | |
| 43. Isolated myositis (Ischemic myopathy) | |
| 44. Optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM) | |
| 45. Orbital fractures | |
| 46. Orbital hemorrhage | |
| 47. Orbital ischemic syndrome | |
| 48. Orbital tumor causing neuro-ophthalmic manifestations | |
| 49. Restrictive strabismus | |
| 50. Thyroid eye disease (thyroid orbitopathy) | |
| Pupils (8 topics) | |
| 51. Adie’s pupil | |
| 52. Afferent pupillary defect | |
| 53. Anisocoria secondary to third nerve palsy | |
| 54. Ciliary ganglion pathology | |
| 55. Essential anisocoria | |
| 56. Horner syndrome | |
| 57. Pharmacologic dilation (Anticholinergic anisocoria) | |
| 58. Pharmacologic pilocarpine anisocoria | |
| Vascular (5 topics) | |
| 59. Cerebral aneurysms | |
| 60. Cerebrovascular disease | |
| 61. Cerebral venous and dural sinus thrombosis | |
| 62. Dissecting aneurysms | |
| 63. Dural cavernous fistula and traumatic carotid cavernous fistula | |
| 64. Thromboembolic phenomena | |