More than 80 delegates from around the world gathered in London recently for a one-day conference tagged on to the annual general meeting of charity Vision Aid Overseas. Speakers from the UK and Africa delivered a variety of messages under the umbrella of 'eye care and primary health development' but including themes ranging from clinical communication skills and technology advances in education, to the delivery of eye care in difficult to reach parts of Africa.
Innovations
Professor David Thomson (City University and Thomson Software Solutions) began his discussion of innovation in optometric education by establishing a fact that kept recurring throughout the day - that the most common cause of poor vision throughout the world was uncorrected refractive error.
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