Princess Alexandra Hospital Optometry and General Practitioner Community Alignment Program
Date: 26/10/2025 (AEST)
Venue: Princess Alexandra Hospital, Russell Strong Auditorium, 199 Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102
Provider: Optometry QLD NT
Contact: Angela Davison, [E] a.davison@optometry.org.au, [P] 0409896349
Activity Outline
This presentation has been created in consultation with Ophthalmologists at Princess Alexandra Hospital and is accredited by Optometry Australia. A total of guest speakers will cover topics such as:
• Eye in Crisis: Practical Approaches to Ocular Conditions
• Balancing the Pressure: Long-term Care for Stable Glaucoma
• In Focus: A Guide to Anterior Eye Conditions and Care
• Retina Matters: Comprehensive Care for Retinal Health
• Gonioscopy & Foreign Body Workshop
Learning Objectives
- Identify features of several acute & chronic eye conditions that are commonly encountered in the community, understand the indications for certain investigations and interpret key diagnostic findings, and proficiently identify progression, deterioration in a patient’s condition and how to triage, treat and/or manage accordingly.
- Identify features of several glaucoma types that are commonly encountered in the community, understand the indications for certain investigations and interpret key diagnostic findings, gain a deeper knowledge in the principals in therapeutic & surgical management of various glaucoma conditions and proficiently identify progression, deterioration in a patient’s condition and how to triage, treat and/or manage accordingly.
- Identify features of treated corneal eye conditions that are commonly encountered in the community, understand the indications for certain investigations and interpret key diagnostic findings and proficiently identify progression, deterioration in a patient’s condition and how to triage, treat and/or manage accordingly.
- Identify features of treated posterior conditions that are commonly encountered in the community, understand the indications for certain investigations and interpret key diagnostic findings and proficiently identify progression, deterioration in a patient’s condition and how to triage, treat and/or manage accordingly.
- Identify various anterior angle structures, understand when to consider referral based on narrow angles.
- Identify features of ocular toxicity in patients, understand the indications for certain investigations and interpret key diagnostic findings, proficiently identify progression, deterioration in a patient’s condition and how to triage, treat and/or manage accordingly and understand the MBS item number changes in Medicare.
Max CPD hours awarded: 5
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| In Focus: A guide to Anterior Eye Conditions and Care |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Retina Matters: Comprehensive Care for Retinal Health |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Gonioscopy & Foreign Body Workshop |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Eye in Crisis: Practical Approaches to Ocular Conditions |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Balancing the Pressure: Long-term care for stable Glaucoma |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |