Preparing for tomorrow

As it gears up for the introduction of statutory CET, the profession is faced with selecting from among the wide range of CET opportunities available. This year, the College's annual conference, Optometry Tomorrow 2005, has been designed to optimise the number of credits available, explains Rich Gott

The College has handpicked 21 renowned and respected speakers to address the Optometry Tomorrow 2005 conference at the Palace Hotel, Manchester on March 20-21. A variety of topical issues affecting optometrists will be discussed via one-hour lectures and interactive workshops.

Professor John Lawrenson will present a lecture on the very latest developments within therapeutic prescribing. The lecture will include an outline of the legislative developments in supplementary prescribing, the exemptions to the Medicines Act and other related topics.

Professor John Marshall is Frost Professor of Ophthalmology at St Thomas' Hospital and he will present the Jubilee Lecture. The topic of the lecture will be laser refractive surgery and it will help delegates understand what is currently driving laser refractive surgery.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the College Postgraduate Research Scholarship Fund, Professor Bernard Gilmartin will lead a lecture entitled 'Funding the future' at next year's College Conference. The one-hour lecture will begin with a brief insight into the past 25 years of the fund and what it has helped researchers to achieve.
Three recently funded researchers will give 10-minute presentations followed by a Q&A session: