The 2020-2021 Federal budget is expected to benefit optometrists and optometry practices, primarily through tax cuts and investment incentives, and will support optometrists in continuing to provide important community eye care.
The newly formed Optometry Student Society Australia will have its first national conference online next Sunday, October 11 and is inviting all penultimate and final year optometry students nationwide to take part.
Member input is needed to determine if current membership categories and their associated fee structures need reassessing.
“Make this your year of good vision for life”. Optometry Australia’s National Marketing Manager Trinity Scarf explains how Optometry Australia has pivoted its consumer awareness campaign.
Optometry Australia has been busy preparing the tools and programs to support you through the upcoming changes to the Optometry Board of Australia’s CPD registration requirements. Read more from our President Darrell Baker.
Australian optometrists should be using their therapeutic skills more in the diagnosis and management of eye disease, Rockhampton optometrist Fiona Moore has suggested.
Optometry Australia has cautioned about a small study which suggests wearing glasses every day may reduce the risk of coronavirus infection, saying more studies are needed to provide evidence.
The number of registered optometrists in Australia has topped 6,000 and nearly two-thirds are therapeutically endorsed, latest figures from the Optometry Board of Australia show.
We have curated a range of online education offerings that members can access via our Institute of Excellence and that will help them meet their CPD requirements.
Today on R U OK? Day 2020, Optometry Australia continues its initiatives to assist members’ wellbeing by adding a new mental health resources page to our website, featuring many great free supports for members.
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.
