Maintaining and improving your professional skills and knowledge is essential for providing high quality care for patients and raising professional standards.
Use our online resources and materials to support your continuing professional development and earn essential CPD points.
We have a blended programme of online and in-person events to help you develop your clinical and professional knowledge, and gain interactive CPD points.
Acuity is available in printed and digital formats. It's packed with news and analysis and includes online CPD articles to help you stay ahead in your career.
OiP is our Continuing Professional Development journal. Complete multiple choice quizzes to gain non-interactive CPD points.
MODULE 1: This online CPD course helps you identify the difference between research, audit, and service evaluation, describe the main stages of the research process, and understand the importance of the ethical review process.
A clinical audit is a simple process that enables you to assess how you and your practice are performing against standards and identify ways to improve efficiency, patient care, service, and quality in your practice.
In this webinar, the College’s Clinical Advisers discuss the key amendments to the Guidance for Professional Practice.
This online course is for experienced supervisors who have already completed the Supervisor Training course.
A collection of online resources on key clinical skills for pre-registration optometrists.
Online course for pre-registration optometrists to ensure they comply with the legal, ethical and professional aspects of practice.
This online course helps pre-registration trainees refresh their skills in effective history and symptoms recording, and manage patient communications.
This online CPD course will provide you with an understanding of different techniques that can be used to assess the vision of very young children and children with learning disabilities.
This recorded keynote lecture by Dr Rowan Candy MCOptom focused on young children who are at risk for strabismus and amblyopia. Dr Candy reviews the refractive and ocular motor development of infants and pre-schoolers in the context of clinical assessment and care.
Professor Ed Mallen MCOptom discusses the findings from the part College-funded Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) Study and how it can help you talk to children at risk of myopia and their parents.
Mental Health Counsellor David Beeney looks at how you can assess your own mental health and improve your levels of personal resilience during challenging times, as well as spotting the signs that a colleague maybe suffering with poor mental health.
An expert panel from the College and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists discuss how to have confidence in managing difficult conversations with patients.