Myopia Management in Practice – Online Course
Provider: Myopia Profile Pty Ltd
Contact: Kate Gifford, [E] kate@myopiaprofile.com, [P] 0411109076
Learning Objectives
- Explain the clinical imperative for actively managing childhood myopia
- Translate key literature findings on visual environment in myopia into lay language for parents and patients
- Translate key literature findings on efficacy of myopia management options into lay language for parents and patients
- Explain spectacle lens options for myopia control, including efficacy for different patient groups based on binocular vision presentation
- Discuss the safety, efficacy and visual functional properties of various multifocal soft contact lens designs and orthokeratology contact lenses prescribed for myopia control
- Translate key literature findings on atropine for myopia control into clinical decision making on prescribing
- Translate key literature findings on contact lens safety in children into lay language for parents and patients
- Describe the imperative for assessment of binocular vision in childhood myopia management
- Describe key assessment criteria in determining the risk of onset and progression of myopia
- Explain the clinical utility of axial length measurement in myopic patients
- Identify criteria for measuring clinical success or otherwise in myopia management, based on refractive changes over time
- Identify specific management pathways for childhood myopia including classification of BV as a primary or secondary prescribing decision
Max CPD hours awarded: 4
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Myopia Management in Practice – online course |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 4 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 4 |