Gonioscopy Event - Sunday 13 May

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridgeshire

This one day event is designed specifically for professionals keen to enhance their knowledge and practice of advanced techniques when assessing the anterior eye and optic disc, particularly with regards to referral refinement.learning lectures and is CET approved.

Each 90 minute workshop commences with a concise overview leading to a hands-on practical session with real patients. Delegates are in small groups closely guided by expert tutors. There are a variety of workshops to choose from:

  • Gonioscopy; learning how to use a lens
  • Gonioscopy; gaining experience
  • Gonioscopy; interpreting what you see
  • Practical pachymetry
  • Contact tonometry
  • Volk lens and examination of anterior features

Prior to attending, delegates will receive two CET approved distance learning lectures with MCQs; Goldmann tonometry and pachymetry, and Gonioscopy and close angle glaucoma.

Combined with three workshops, this will lead to a total of 13 CET points.

The course will be held at the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and costs £175.

If you are interested in this course or would like further information, please contact Sasha Macken at mackens@cardiff.ac.uk.

PEARS WEHE Accreditation - 11 April 2012

There will be another evening of OSCE accreditations held at the School of Optometry, Cardiff University on Wednesday 11 April. This is for practitioners who currently do not perform PEARS and WEHE and wish to begin; either within a practice which is WECI registered or those who want to register in a new practice.

The assessment will take about an hour, beginning with a presentation to introduce WECI protocol and then discuss the impending five OSCE stations. The event is booked online at:

www.wopec.co.uk

Please ensure you are registered with WOPEC and that you have up to date email, address and GOC details. Once you are booked on to ONE of time slots, we will send you a promotional code which is to be entered on our website. This enables us to send you the DVD with six distance learning lectures and MCQs. These MCQs must be successfully completed before the OSCE/accreditation evening.

Places are limited and booking is essential.

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Postgraduate Award Modules - Paediatric Module Launches in April 2012

The Paediatric Optometry Module launches in April. This forms part of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes at Cardiff University, and is worth 10 postgraduate credits.

This module provides postgraduate optometrists with the knowledge and skills to provide a high standard of eye care to children. It has a particular emphasis on the need for eye examinations for children and how the practitioner can ensure child-friendly testing procedures and hence a successful examination. The course also considers binocular vision anomalies and specific learning difficulties, and the role of the optometrist in managing children with these conditions. The module is led by Dr Maggie Woodhouse with contributions from Professor Bruce Evans and other leaders in the field. It also gives practitioners the chance to spend time in the paediatric clinic at Cardiff.

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The closing date for the enrolment on this and other Postgraduate Taught Programmes at Cardiff University is FRIDAY 16 MARCH.

Please email PGOptom@cardiff.ac.uk for more details.