Clinical conference sessions
Practical days at the NRC Birmingham, 6 and 7 October
The ABDO 2024 clinical conference will enable ABDO members to take part in four practical workshops, each accredited for 3 interactive CPD points.
There will be 4 workshops across the day which all delegates will attend. Additionally, they will be able to take part in a visual recognition test with discussion.
Workshop 1: Understanding frame fitting for children – Skills workshop
CPD accreditation (pending) 3 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Workshop lead – Dr Alicia Thompson
This skills workshop will provide evidence-based paediatric facial data to enable you to understand how children’s faces develop and how age, ethnicity and/or special characteristics can influence the facial features that interact with spectacles. Utilising realistic paediatric model heads you will be tasked with translating their facial measurements into spectacle frames that fit the individual frame.
Workshop 2: The final touches – Skills workshop
CPD accreditation (pending) 3 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Workshop lead – Dr Alicia Thompson
This skills workshop will introduce a series of frame modifications and adjustments to enable individual paediatric patients to be suitably dispensed. You will learn to consider the unique requirements of their patients across age, ethnicity and any facial characteristics that need to be suitably fitted for, and how frame modifications and adjustments can help achieve the perfect fit.
Workshop 3: Acute eyecare mysteries – Discussion workshop
CPD accreditation (pending) 3 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Workshop lead – Max Halford, ABDO Clinical lead
This discussion workshop will require you to turn detective to solve three acute eyecare mysteries. You will work in small, facilitated groups to piece together the case and identify the underlying culprit. You will be required to consider your line of questioning and how you would manage the patient depending on your professional role and scope of practice.
Workshop 4: Acute eyecare and technology
CPD accreditation (pending) 3 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Supported by the team at Topcon
This practical session will utilise eyecare technologies that can be used to support the patient presenting in primary eyecare practice with an acute eyecare issue.
Visual recognition test with discussion – Measurements and pathology
CPD accreditation (pending) 2 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Learning domains: Professionalism and clinical practice
This interactive visual recognition test will require you to work with a small group of peers to examine images relating to either paediatric dispensing or acute eyecare in optical practice and answer the corresponding questions.
Download full agenda here.
Webinars
Acute eyecare and the dispensing optician with presented by Max Halford, ABDO Clinical lead and Shabana Younus, lecturer practitioner at Anglia Ruskin University
Monday 16 September, 7pm
1 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
This lecture will look at the role of the dispensing optician (DO) in primary eyecare in relation to acute eyecare. The DO is often the first eyecare professional a patient will encounter when contacting or attending practice with an acute eyecare issue. Therefore, the DO has a role to play in appropriately triaging the patient as well as the knowledge and skills to manage some ocular issues. Consideration of the scope of practice of a DO in acute eyecare, including the use of technology and referral will also be considered.
Seeing dispensing through a child and family’s eyes with Dr Cathy Hamer
Tuesday 24 September, 7pm
1 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians and optometrists
Dr Hamer is an Educational Psychologist with extensive experience in early years, special education and disability practice and will explore communication with children and parents in primary eyecare and how the dispensing process can be seen through their eyes to support patient outcomes.
Myopia Management 2024 with Professor Nicola Logan
Thursday 10 October, 7pm
CPD accreditation (pending) 1 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and optometrists
Fresh from the International Myopia 2024 Conference, Professor Logan will provide an up-to-date account of where we are currently at with myopia management in 2024. Considering the latest research and innovations alongside her expertise in the field, Professor Logan will look to support ABDO members to appropriately provide myopia management in practice.
Myopia management and the patient journey
Tuesday 15 October, 8pm (please note the later time)
CPD accreditation (pending) 1 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and optometrists
This panel discussion will be chaired by Richard Edwards from the OCCS. Joining Richard will be Dr Kate Gifford, Chair of the Clinical Management Guidelines Committee of the International Myopia Institute and director of Myopiaprofile.com (alongside her husband Paul Gifford). Providing professional body representation will be Max Halford, Clinical Lead for ABDO and Paramdeep Bilkhu, Clinical Advisor at the College of Optometrists. The panel will discuss myopia management in optical practice in the UK and how the practice can work together to support the patient through their journey.
Online workshops
Essential Patient Care: Peer review
September – Thursday 5, Thursday 12
October – Monday 14, Thursday 17, Wednesday 23
November – Tuesday 12, Wednesday 20th, Thursday 21
C-109278 – 3 interactive CPD points for dispensing opticians and optometrists.
Learning domains: Professionalism, Clinical practice
This peer review presents three patients each of whom have contacted or attended the practice with an ocular concern. You will be asked to consider with your peers who would be the first point of contact and to discuss your triage and patient management process.
Resolving the problem: Peer review
Wednesday 4 September, Thursday 4 October, Monday 11 November
C-109276 – 3 interactive CPD points for contact lens opticians and optometrists.
Learning domains: Professionalism, Clinical practice and CL speciality
This peer review presents three patient cases involving an acute eye condition concern. You will be asked to consider how you would manage the patient relation to your personal scope of practice, practice setting and local pathways
Journal Club 2024 #3: Discussion Workshop
Thursday 3 October, Wednesday 6 November, Thursday 5 December
CPD accreditation (pending) 3 interactive CPD point for dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and optometrists
Presented by Tina Arbon Black, this discussion workshop will serve as an online journal club to help develop skills to critically appraise academic research and consider how the evidence from research may influence and develop clinical practice.
