Atropine for Myopia Management – Online Course
Provider: Myopia Profile Pty Ltd
Contact: Kate Gifford, [E] kate@myopiaprofile.com, [P] 0411109076
Activity Outline
Atropine for Myopia Management will enhance your knowledge and decision-making processes for prescribing. With a fast-moving research field, this interactive two hour course will step you through an overview of the evidence-base including comparing atropine to other treatments and combination treatments. The intensely practical content then takes you through patient pathways, prescribing considerations from contraindications to side effects to optical corrections to formulations, steps for parent communication and informed consent, and long term management including tapering and cessation. This course will provide the you the confidence and clinical structure for safe and effective prescribing of atropine for childhood myopia.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the clinical rationale for use of low-concentration atropine for myopia control
- Describe the efficacy evidence for various concentrations of topical atropine
- Communicate a simple comparison of atropine to optical myopia control treatments based on scientific evidence
- Explain patient pathways for prescribing atropine as a monotherapy or combination treatment in childhood myopia
- Discuss cautions for topical atropine use and likely frequency of side effects
- Describe key clinical steps in prescribing atropine, including communication with parents
Max CPD hours awarded: 2
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Atropine for Myopia Management – Online Course |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 2 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 2 |