Logging patient encounters provides evidence of patients you see, and ensures that you develop the skills needed to enable you to practise safely and effectively when you qualify.
- 1.0 Introduction to the Scheme for Registration
- 2.0 Enrolment
- 3.0 Supervision
- 4.0 Trainee logbook
- 5.0 Stage One
- 6.0 Stage Two
- 7.0 Final assessment (OSCE)
- 8.0 Before you qualify
- 9.0 Scheme for Registration fees
- 10.0 Advice and support
- 11.0 Scheme for Registration regulations, policies and reports
- Scheme for Registration FAQs
4.0 Trainee logbook
Your logbook should be kept up-to-date throughout your time on the Scheme. The logbook allows you to keep track of your patient encounters.
Download the logbook
Why have the patient number requirements changed?
Following a GOC consultation, we have made changes to the patient episode requirements for the 2020-21 cohort to reflect the changes in optometric practice that have been accelerated or caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To reflect changing optometric practice, the minimum numbers now give less weight to dispensing, and increased weight to contact lens care and enhanced optometric roles.
The focus on minimum numbers for both patient encounter categories and patient characteristics ensure that trainees gain the breadth of experience required to practise safely and effectively at the point of full registration.
We have included teaching encounters as part of the contact lens category to reflect this important part of practice.
- 1.0 Introduction to the Scheme for Registration
- 2.0 Enrolment
- 3.0 Supervision
- 4.0 Trainee logbook
- 5.0 Stage One
- 6.0 Stage Two
- 7.0 Final assessment (OSCE)
- 8.0 Before you qualify
- 9.0 Scheme for Registration fees
- 10.0 Advice and support
- 11.0 Scheme for Registration regulations, policies and reports
- Scheme for Registration FAQs