Now consider the following case.
Case study
A 76 year old female patient is seeing you for an annual eye examination. She has already been diagnosed with dry age related macular degeneration in both eyes and has been discharged from hospital with the advice to have annual eye examinations in community practice.
Best corrected acuity; R 6/7.5 L 6/36
Her right eye shows extensive intermediate drusen and early nucleosclerotic cataract and in her left pseudophakic eye there is extensive subfoveal geographic atrophy.
She is happy with her overall level of vision. She has no significant general health concerns and is not taking any current prescription medicines.
She has read that ‘there may be some vitamin tablets that might help improve her vision.’
To gain your CET point you are required to discuss the following with another GOC registered practitioner and consider the following;
What advice regarding nutrition might you give to this patient? Please make sure that your advice is supported by the published evidence.
Remember, there may be a divergence of views – we simply need to know what you and your colleague think and why.
Remember, your interaction should last for at least 10 minutes (and completion of the submission will be taken as your statement that this is true) and you will be required to submit the outcome of your discussion along with the name and GOC number of the person with whom you have interacted with.
Once you submit your responses, our review team will either;
- Confirm completion and an interactive CET point
- Ask by email for further clarification
- Suggest that too little information was submitted this time for a point to be awarded.
- At the end of the month’s active period we will confirm that your discussion outcome meets the requirement for an interactive point