The College supports the growing number of optometrists offering myopia management (sometimes known as myopia control) interventions to reduce myopia progression. Read our guidance.
This report provides a review of the evidence available for myopia management interventions. It identifies gaps and provides the basis for related guidance recommendations.
Find out how the myopia evidence review and the new College guidance will affect you in practice.
The College has provided the following FAQs on myopia management as a summary of the guidance and evidence review for optometrists and their patients.
Emma Bennett explores the link between a rise in screen time during the pandemic and increasing levels of myopia in children.
Clinical files: I am keen to start offering my patients a myopia management intervention using atropine. Can I prescribe 0.01% atropine?
The College of Optometrists presented the prestigious Research Excellence Awards today as part of Optometry Tomorrow Bitesize 2021.
The College of Optometrists is running Optometry Tomorrow Bitesize as a month-long online learning event for members, starting from Tuesday 2 March.
Take part in our research on childhood myopia and inform future decisions on myopia management.
This article outlines the evidence used to demonstrate the complex aetiology of myopia development and discusses how the supposed opposing influences of genetic factors and environmental influences can be used to further our understanding of myopia.
The latest issue of our international research journal, OPO, is out now.
The clinical figures that count.
Our Director of Research, Michael Bowen, looks at how the Cochrane review will affect our guidance on myopia management.
We asked five industry experts to round up the optical successes of 2018, and what they predict for the year ahead.
Podcast: We talk to Dr Nicola Logan MCOptom about myopia management for our first ever WebinarXtra - where we answer questions there wasn't time to cover during our live webinar.
This article reviews the evidence to support the optometric management of childhood myopia.