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  • Clinical guidance
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    • Guidance for Professional Practice
    • Clinical Management Guidelines
    • Optometrists' Formulary
    • Clinical advice service
    • Clinical files
    • Guidance for therapeutics
    • Supplementary guidance
    • Using Evidence in Practice
    • Ethical scenarios
  • Professional development
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    • CPD hub
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      • Introduction to CPD
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        • Your Personal Development Plan (PDP)
        • Types of CPD
        • Registering CPD activity with the GOC
        • Reflective learning practice
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      • Peer discussion and peer review
      • Docet distance learning
    • Further qualifications
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      • Independent prescribing (IP) qualification
      • Higher qualifications
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      • Acuity
      • Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO)
      • Optometry In Practice
    • Career pathways in optometry
    • Early career hub
    • Fellowship: The College's highest award
    • Research awards and grants
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      • Research Excellence Awards
      • Financial support for College members undertaking research
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SPOKE: Sector Partnership for Optical Knowledge and Education

To support successful implementation of the new GOC education requirements.
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Supporting Learners

Wellbeing resources

Topical discussion articles

  • Managing assessment anxiety
  • Resilience
  • Supporting learner wellbeing

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Fitness to train and reasonable adjustments

Working with others resources

Topical discussion articles

  • Teaching students skills of integration with patients with learning disabilities
  • Building confidence in communicating with patients
  • Teaching optometry and ophthalmic dispensing learners how to communicate with children
  • Consent and vulnerable patients
  • Dealing with complaints
  • Duty of candour
  • Ensuring patient-centred care
  • Teaching teamworking skills

Developing self and service resources

Topical discussion articles

  • Encouraging reflection
  • Teaching students how to delegate
  • How to instil professionalism in optometry and ophthalmic dispensing students
  • Developing clinical audit skills
  • Teaching students to understand the limits of their knowledge and scope of practice
  • Evidence based practice
  • Opportunities for advanced practice
  • Opportunities for advanced practice - Part 2

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Enhancing the scope of practice in optical professionals
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