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 |