Optometrists can help save the planet, as well as sight
Adelaide optometrist Meg Kirkman gives tips on how to have an environmentally-friendly practice.
Tagged as: Advocacy & government, Future
New scleral lens academy to aid specialised fitting
WA optometrist Damon Ezekiel has co-founded a new organisation to promote scleral lenses and aid optometrists with their fitting.
Tagged as: Contact lenses, Patient management
Contact lens resource guide free for members
Optometry Australia has produced a comprehensive clinical resource guide on contact lenses for members to keep and use in their every-day practice.
Tagged as: Clinical practice guides, Contact lenses, Eye examinations, Member services, Myopia, Patient management, Practice notes
Optometrist Business Brokers
There is a new option for Practice Owners wanting to sell – Optometrist Business Brokers
Tagged as: Marketing
R U OK? Tips to prevent burnout in optometry
Today, on R U OK?Day, Perth optometrist Andrew Tan Nguyen looks at how optometrists can avoid burnout. Andrew is a member of the Western Australian Early Career Optometrists (ECO) group and a board member of Optometry WA.
R U OK?Day is Australia’s national day of action dedicated to reminding everyone to ask, “Are you OK?”
Tagged as: ECOs, Employment
Optometry students making a difference in Thailand and Cambodia
Optometry students Bryan Cheong and Rachael Lim discuss their rewarding optometry outreach trip to an orphanage in Thailand and a school and village in Cambodia.
Tagged as: International, Students, Universities
Optometry study tour to Borneo to visit traditional longhouses and cataract clinics
SPONSORED CONTENT: Optometrists and their partners are invited to an optometry study tour to Borneo and the Malay Peninsula.
Tagged as: International
Optometrists urged to write ‘Must be compounded’ on Atropine scripts to avoid dispensing errors
Optometrists who prescribe eye-drops for myopia have been urged to clearly label the script ‘MUST BE COMPOUNDED’ following incidents of Australian children receiving the wrong eye-drops from pharmacists.
Tagged as: Myopia, Paediatric optometry, Therapeutics
International Society for Contact Lens Research honours for UNSW Sydney optometrists
Professor Fiona Stapleton and UNSW PhD student Rabia Mobeen have received honours from the International Society for Contact Lens Research.
Tagged as: Awards - honours - grants-bursaries, Contact lenses, International, Leadership, Universities
13 million Australians have a vision disorder and females have higher prevalence
More than half the population has a long-term vision disorder, and females are more likely to be affected, a new eye health report shows.
Tagged as: Medicare-MBS-PBS, Other eye diseases