Optometry Virtually Connected 2023

Optometry Virtually Connected 2023

Provider: OA National Provider

Contact: Optometry Australia OA Provider, [E] cpd@optometry.org.au, [P] 96688550

Registration: https://ovc.joyn-us.app/registration/new

Learning Objectives

• Develop an understanding of the difference between machine learning and deep learning
• Develop an understanding of the difference between AI and statistical analysis
• Develop an appreciation of the range of factors limiting AI deployment in eye care
• Understand how ocular surface diseases can arise from, and be exacerbated by, common lifestyle choices such as diet and cosmetics
• Understand the role local indoor and external environmental exposures play in driving the development of ocular surface diseases
• Gain knowledge to help patients optimise quality of life using evidence-based recommendations, to minimise impacts of lifestyle choices and mitigate ocular surface disease development and propagation
• Review the cycle of inflammation associated with the ‘vicious circle of dry eye disease’
• Appreciate diagnostic criteria for dry eye disease categorisation
• Consider current topical and oral therapeutic management strategies that best combat the clinical signs observed
• Review the pathophysiology of blepharitis and DED
• Understand effective management strategies for DED and co-morbidities
• Consider the correlation between effective treatment strategies and patient satisfaction and quality of life
• Explain how climate variables and environmental conditions can affect ocular surface health and function
• Apply consensus-based guidelines to protect the ocular surface during extreme climate events
• Proactively manage populations which are at greater risk of ocular surface disease during extreme climate events
• Review the features of the most complete daily disposable silicone hydrogel lens on the market and its benefits for patients
• Understand the technology of Alcon’s PRECISION BALANCE 8|4 toric lens design
• Identify patients with severe keratitis from dry eye disease
• Choose the most appropriate treatment option for individual patients
• Recall the key outcomes from the real-world PERSPECTIVE study
• Describe the correct use of Ikervis in eligible patients, including the prescribing process
  
• Gain a comprehensive overview of the myopia control treatments available in Australia, and how to pick the right treatment for your patient
• Learn the expected efficacy of each treatment, how to gauge your patient’s treatment effect, and to identify when a patient might need to consider dual therapy
• Explain the role of near work in myopia
• Understand how the biometry changes during near work
• Understand the varying opinions on binocular vision and accommodation errors in myopia
• Understand how the relative peripheral spherical equivalent refraction nasally and temporally may impact upon the development of myopia
• Understand how anatomical asymmetry in the retina in the nasal and temporal regions in terms of cone and ganglion cell density may impact upon the development of myopia
• Assess and recognise signs of pathological myopia
• Become familiar with the primary components in early ocular growth, the impact of such growth on refractive development as well as important clinical implications
• Understand how integrated software systems can increase diagnostic confidence and clinical efficiency
• Understand how integrated software systems can assist in patient education and understanding of their disease
• Understand how Integrated software systems can promote collaborative care and support effective communication between professionals
  
• Understand the responsibility of optometrists to deliver culturally safe practice
• Identify key features of evidence-based models of eye care
• Understand the technology and benefits of the Ultra Monthly lens family and how they will benefit patients to live better and see better
• Describe the advances in contact lens technology, including drug delivery and smart lenses
• Understand how contact lenses affect the binocular vision system
• Appreciate the impact of different contact lens designs on the binocular vision system
• Understand the benefits of ACUVUE Eye Inspired Innovations and how they link to patient experience and retention
• Understand how tools like MyACUVUE can help optometry practices retain patients
• Consider the levers that relate to patient retention in the contact lens category
  
• Understand the visual optics and prescribing patterns necessary for successful prescribing of contact lenses for presbyopia
• Recognise the modifiable and non modifiable risk factors for contact lens associated corneal infection
• Design strategies for communicating healthy contact lens wear
• Develop an understanding of how MiSight 1 day slowed the myopia of children progressing at different rates
• Develop an understanding of how different measures can be used to fully understand treatment efficacy in myopia management
• Identify the main types of systemic anticancer drugs used in medical oncology settings (chemotherapy, hormonal agents, targeted therapies)
• Recognise ocular complications arising from treatment with anticancer drugs, and the appropriate management for these side effects
• Better understand the role obesity plays in a range of eye disease
• Consider proposed modifications to examination and management protocols to incorporate known ocular complications associated with obesity
• Better understand how to utilise incidence and prevalence values in clinical practice
• Develop confidence in assessing  myopic patients prior to potential cataract surgery
• Understand appropriate refractive targets, surgical methods and intraocular lens choices for myopic patients based on individual patient characteristics
• Recognise the relationship between myopia and glaucoma
• Understand the diagnostic challenges faced when both coexist
• Discuss the new tools to aid in the diagnosis and management
  
• Describe the impacts of the most important systemic autoimmune cause of blindness
• Describe the impacts of the most important systemic autoinflammatory causes of blindness
• Recognise when eye inflammation is autoimmune versus autoinflammatory versus infective
• Understand when to initiate and maintain management or refer appropriately
• Understand when to use which steroids and when to avoid them
• Understand and manage microbes - to kill, control or nurture
  
• Understand why the optometrist has an important role in routine care for people living with dementia and/or Parkinson’s Disease
• Understand how dementia and Parkinson’s Disease can impact ocular motility and binocular function, and what to look for during the routine eye examination
• Understand the relationship between cognitive impairment associated with dementia, eye care access inequities and poor visual outcomes
• Learn ways to modify management of common age-related eye diseases to accommodate cognitive impairment
• Understand the tips and tricks to better counsel and manage patients with trifocal IOLs pre- and post-operatively in order to improve patient outcomes and satisfaction

Max CPD hours awarded: UP TO 22 (12T)

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