This in-person peer review for both general and IP optometrist points in Belfast, is free of charge for College members and will cover your peer review CPD requirement, offering 3 CPD points. There will be up to six tables for the general optometrist peer review and one table for the IP peer review. Booking is vital as spaces are limited so click on the book now button above to avoid disappointment.
Optometrist peer review
- At the peer review, you will be assigned a table with up to 10 other optometrists and participate in a facilitated discussion to review three cases.
- Each table will have an experienced facilitator who will help guide the discussion.
- The case studies are patient with reduced vision, learning disability, symptoms of glare when driving.
The content of this session is a repeat of sessions which took place on 9 May, 18 May, 13 June, 20 June and 4 July - please be mindful of this as you cannot claim the CPD more than once.
Domains and learning outcomes
Clinical practice
s.5 Keep your skills and knowledge up to date
- Understands the ocular conditions associated with patients with learning difficulties.
- To have a greater understanding of the issues involved in dealing with patients with sight loss.
s.7 Conduct appropriate assessments, examinations, treatments and referrals
- Able to conduct appropriate assessments and examinations, adapting your routine where necessary for patients, ensuring legal obligations for reasonable adjustments are met.
Professionalism
s.4 Show care and compassion for your patients
- Able to recognise patients with special examination needs, understand the need to treat them sensitively and with dignity and understand the need for compassion when they become anxious or distressed.
s.10 Work collaboratively with colleagues in the interests of patients
- Understands the support from multi-disciplinary services and specialist teams assisting those with sight loss and ocular disease.
IP peer review
- The IP peer review is open to College members who are qualified independent prescribers or at the placement stage of an IP qualification.
- At the peer review, you will be assigned a table with up to 10 other optometrists and participate in a facilitated discussion to review three cases.
- Each table will have an experienced facilitator who will help guide the discussion.
- The case studies are Painful red eye in a contact lens wearer, Non-painful red eye and management and Complications in a contact lens wearer.
The content of this session is a repeat of sessions which took place on online on 13 October, 21 December 2022, 25 January 2023, 23 April 2023 and 25 April 2023 - please be mindful of this as you cannot claim the CPD more than once.
Domains and learning outcomes
Communication
s.2 Communicate effectively with patients
- Understand the importance of taking an appropriate medical history in assessing risk factors and any presenting symptoms patients may have.
- Able to effectively explain and advise patients about their eye condition and discuss the management option with them.
- Able to obtain a relevant history and communicate the proposed management rationale in a sensitive manner to the patient.
Clinical practice
s.7 Conduct appropriate assessments, examinations, treatments and referrals
- Able to evaluate differential diagnoses appropriately and identify pathology resulting in appropriate management of the patients’ presenting signs and symptoms.
- Understand the appropriate clinical assessments for three cases, using relevant techniques and equipment and relates findings to the clinical signs.
- Able to differentially diagnose common anterior eye conditions and understand which can be managed in practice and when referral is required.
- Know the different non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches to managing the condition being treated.
Specialty CPD - AS/SP/IP optometrist
- Able to investigate and understand the treatment options available to IP optometrists for patients presenting with anterior eye disease.
- Understand and recognise the limits of own expertise and work within them when formulating a therapeutic management plan.
- Understand when to refer, inform or seek guidance from a specialist in relation to three different patient cases.
- Have an understanding of the importance of working with other medical professionals i.e. HES and establishing clear lines of responsibility in order to provide the best care for a patient.
- Able to apply the principles of evidence-based practice, including clinical effectiveness of antibiotics for some ocular conditions.
If optometrists want to attend the Queens University Belfast events (World Sight Day and Pan Ireland Ophthalmology Day), they will need to register through the relevant links:
World Sight Day
Pan Ireland Ophthalmology Day