New CET opportunities with Heidelberg UK

All systems go at Optician as we enter the final leg of the three-year enhanced CET cycle. As you would expect, we will be publishing a full range of both distance learning and interactive distance learning projects across the range of GOC competencies. The aim is to ensure that all of our readers will have had access to the complete requirement of interactive and distance learning points required for their registration with the GOC.

Later in the year we will be running a short course of relevance to optometrists, either already IP category, or at entry level but with an interest in therapeutics. We will also be continuing and expanding our interactive professional conduct series with a look at legal matters relating to employment and practice matters.

On top of this, we will shortly be releasing details of an exciting peer to peer discussion programme to run alongside this year’s Optrafair and to which all our readers are welcome, whether in need of their required peer point or simply interested in taking part. There will also be increasing use of our new website with video and graphic materials to support our CET programme.

Heidelberg UK

Optician has teamed up with Heidelberg UK to develop an exciting new stream of education scheduled to launch at the end of this month. For each of the first three months of this year we will be running a CET exercise based around a high quality video to run via our website. The first video will demonstrate the set up and initial data acquisition using an OCT, and the following videos will look more closely at data interpretation. After the three videos have run, we will then be running an interactive exercise aimed at consolidating the information gained from the series and encouraging your interaction at practice level in this subject area.

To coincide with the series, we are also launching an ‘OCT Case Clinic’. This will allow readers with OCTs to submit any cases that are of interest or that they have concerns or queries about. These will be considered in turn by an expert panel comprising representatives from optometry, ophthalmology and medical imaging, and may be selected for use at a peer discussion and combined OCT surgery to be held at this year’s Optrafair. Readers who submit their cases will be invited to these sessions and also a selected sample of them will be published over the coming year together with the input from our expert panel. Details for entry of cases will be given in the last issue of this month as we go live with the first video.