Keeping clinical skills in Czech

It is over two years since the first Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Institute was opened in Jacksonville, Florida. The aim was to provide a facility to allow practitioners to update their clinical skills and product knowledge and to maintain it in the ever changing area of contact lenses.

The aim was to invite well known speakers to educate practitioners, either from companies or independent groups, in an environment where there would be access to up to date equipment and allow for a good degree of practical interactivity - something essential in contact lens training. This was deemed successful enough for more centres to open up, the next in South Korea and Taipai in 2005, and more in Brazil and Japan.

The first centre in Europe was launched in March this year in Prague, and more are planned, in both southern Europe (Spain or Italy) and one in the UK in the coming years.