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Optometry Gala Day 2023

Date: 5/02/2023 (AEST)

Venue: The Star Casino, Broadbeach Island, Broadbeach, QLD, 4218

Provider: Gold Coast & Tweed Eye Doctors

Contact: Sue Pocock, [E] sue.pocock@gcteyedoctors.com.au, [P] 0408120475

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the role of the optometrist in the management of diabetic retinopathy
  • Understand the current management of diabetic macular oedema
  • Understand the management of non-proliferative and proliferative diabetic retinopathy
  • Discuss peripheral retinal imaging and disease assessment.
  • Recognize common peripheral retinal lesions
  • Identify red flag signs and lesions that need urgent referral
  • Approach to OCT interpretation
  • Recognize segmentation and layers in OCT
  • Exposure to common and rarer diagnoses
  • When to prescribe glasses in the absence of strabismus
  • Prescribing glasses in the presence of strabismus
  • When to use bifocal glasses in children
  • Patching and atropine penalisation
  • Understand how retinal dystrophies can present in childhood
  • Understand the importance of accurate diagnosis including the role of genetic testing
  • Gain an understanding of the current genetic therapy techniques available and under investigation
  • Be able to identify the difference between ocular surface disease due to allergy and blepharitis
  • Recognise the importance of demodex infestation in children, and know the signs
  • Understand which topical treatments are effective and when to use them
  • Recognise facial nerve palsy in your patient
  • Recognise thyroid eye disease in your patient
  • Determine the best treatment approach for your patient
  • Recognise herpetic keratitis in your patient
  • Recognise viral conjunctivitis in your patient
  • Understand how to appropriately treat and prescribe for these conditions
  • Understand patient factors that influence lens choice in cataract surgery
  • Interpret biometry and corneal topography
  • Understand how to optimise the corneal surface prior to cataract surgery
  • clinical presentation
  • differential diagnosis
  • Prevention
  • Outcomes
  • medical management- antibiotics and steroid use

Max CPD hours awarded: 8.5

Session Information

Name

Break Out Interactive Sessions

Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
Yes
Therapeutic?
No
Duration of CPD Session/Module
1.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
2.5
Name
Glasses prescribing and amblyopia management in children
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) - an update
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Sleep with one eye open - The optometrist’s role in managing facial nerve palsy and Thyroid eye disease
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Going viral - An update on managing herpetic keratitis , An update on managing viral conjunctivitis
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Corneal dystrophies and corneal depositions
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name

Refractive surgery in 2023

Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Diabetic retinopathy in 2023
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
Yes
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75
Name
Peripheral retinal lesions – Thanks Optos, but what is that thing?
Clinical?
Yes
Interactive?
No
Therapeutic?
No
Duration of CPD Session/Module
0.5
Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component
0.75

Acknowledgement of Country

In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.