The College provides the latest news, research, advice and guidance on the retina, and all the key optical topics. These are regularly reviewed to ensure you are completely up-to-date with your practice.
Read the guidance for advice on examining patients with diabetes mellitus.
Guidance for optometrists on examining patients who present with flashes and floaters.
Visit our learning hub for the latest online courses available to members on the topic of retina.
This year’s Optometry Tomorrow programme is designed to help you grow the skills that make the biggest difference in practice.
As advances in optical coherence tomography imaging shed new light on the choroid, Carina Bailey asks how measuring choroidal thickness could help determine ocular health.
Clinical files: Do I need to follow-up on patients with posterior vitreous detachment?
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The clinical figures that count.
Eye health issues that are making the news.
Medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide have become popular to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity, but there can be uncommon ocular side effects. Anna Scott asks: what do optometrists need to know?
A glance at what’s happening in the world of technology.
We speak to the new Acuity Clinical Editor Chris Steele FCOptom about the evolving role of the optometrist, and his role in that evolution.
Adrian O’Dowd examines the evidence that suggests gut bacteria are linked to genetic eye disease and the implications for eye care.
This online CPD course is for optometrists who would like to know more about diabetic retinopathy but are not already involved in diabetic screening.
Sean Matthews Mackie FCOptom discusses a case of the rare systemic disorder PXE, which can put patients at higher risk of vascular disease and choroidal neovascularisation, and is diagnosed in part through retinal examination.