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Maintaining and improving your professional skills and knowledge is essential for providing high quality care for patients and raising professional standards. 

Online learning

Use our online resources and materials to support your continuing professional development and earn essential CPD points.

Events

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

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.

Optometry in Practice

OiP is our Continuing Professional Development journal. Complete multiple choice quizzes to gain non-interactive CPD points.

More on CPD

Investigating and managing neuro-ophthalmological symptoms

This online CPD course will guide you in making clinical decisions for your patients with neuro-ophthalmological signs and symptoms.

Referrals

OCT - interpretation and management part two

This second online CPD course on OCT will help develop further your ability to interpret OCT images and decide on the appropriate action for patients.

OCT

OCT - interpretation and management part one

Watch optometrist Polly Dulley discuss various cases on this online course. This CPD course includes OCT images, treatment and management options.

OCT

Patient management and referrals – part one

This online CPD course will help you with management decisions when retinal lesions are identified by both fundus examination and optical coherence tomography (OCT).

OCT Referrals

Independent prescribing – effective patient management

You will be given four different patient cases covering a range of pathologies, including cataract post-surgery and contact lens wearers. This online CPD course aims to improve your skills and knowledge in patient management.

Independent prescribing

Getting referrals right

This online CPD course will guide you through a series of example referral letters, from the perspective of the person who receives them in the hospital eye service.

Referrals

Clinical decision making

This online CPD course helps optometrists practise making clinical decisions, covering a range of topics and clarify when to refer patients and the level of urgency of referrals.

AMD Binocular vision Cataract Glaucoma OCT Retina

Binocular vision - examination and management in practice

This online CPD course follows an optometrist while they examine four children of differing ages being managed in practice for a variety of binocular vision anomalies.

Binocular vision Children

AMD – management in practice

This online CPD course will guide you through the NICE recommended classification of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), risk factors, guidance on when to refer and when to manage in practice.

AMD

Glaucoma – management in practice

This online CPD course will help you make decisions when faced with complex issues and helps you communicate your findings and management plans effectively.

Glaucoma

New College OCT course launched

The College is pleased to announce that a new CPD course - Introduction to OCT - is now available to College members.

OCT

What is reflective practice?

Reflective practice is an integral of the General Optical Council’s (GOC) continuous professional development (CPD) requirements. What is it and how can you do it? Andy Miller, the College’s Head of Post Registration Education, is on hand to explain…