Education sessions for 100% Optical are now open for ABDO members to book.
Taking place at ExCeL London, 100% Optical 2024 (24-26 February) is promising more than 120 hours of CPD across 13 different hubs, including an ‘educational escape room’ discussion workshop – Save Dave – to be delivered by ABDO CPD.
Key topics across the three-day education programme will include myopia management, advances in clinical imaging, including the role of artificial intelligence (AI), and dry eye disease.
In the first of two ABDO CPD sessions, Dr Alicia Thompson, ABDO director of research, education and professional development, will lead a discussion workshop on myopia management and the role of the dispensing optician (DO). Delegates will work in groups to discuss the role of the DO in relation to myopia management as a member of a practice multi-disciplinary team. Group discussions will focus on communicating risk, informed choice and patient consent, provision of spectacles, and patient monitoring.
A second ABDO discussion workshop, led by ABDO head of CPD, Alex Webster, will be run as an ‘escape room’. Delegates will be presented with three patient-based case puzzles and will need to work together reviewing the clinical information to find the code that will ‘Save Dave’, the locum optometrist who is locked in the store cupboard.
Alex Webster said: “The CPD sessions available at 100% Optical 2024 look to be relevant to all eyecare practitioners, and offer a great opportunity for ABDO members to attend an exciting conference whilst keeping up to date on areas of clinical practice we all need to know about.”
Programme highlights
The focus on myopia management will continue with a seminar session, titled ‘Looking forward to a brighter future: myopia management’, to be held on the opening day in the Dispensing Workshop area. This session will look at products available in the UK for myopia management, and the importance of evidence-based practice – including clinical observational and real-world trials.
Two further myopia sessions will be held the following day, ‘Though their eyes: a journey of myopia management in children’ and ‘Making myopia work with teamwork’. Both seminars promise knowledgeable outcomes including understanding the impact of myopia management on patient’s lives, and how all practice colleagues can support its treatment.
Other notable sessions on the programme include the following peer review discussion workshops:
• ‘An introduction to assistive technology for people with low vision’, presenting a series of case studies of people at various stages of life with differing eye conditions, needs and ambitions
• ‘Supporting patients with additional needs’ considering three case records covering an adult with learning disabilities, a child with autism and a patient with low vision
• ‘Special Schools and Easy Eye Care in the community’, with cases allowing delegates to understand their own scope of competence for managing this patient group with the best possible outcomes
Main stage lecture topics will include:
• Ocular allergy, providing an overview of the classification, epidemiology, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnostics and treatments
• Widefield optical coherence angiography
• Scleral contact lenses ‘back to basics
• AI in ophthalmology
‘The Wheel of Misfortune’ will look at common reasons for clinical negligence claims with case examples in the style of the well-known 90s game show.
Dr Ian Beasley, head of education at the Association of Optometrists, said: “100% Optical offers delegates over 120 CPD sessions across all modes of practice to fit a range of training needs. With the CPD cycle entering its third and final year, attendees will have an early opportunity to meet the GOC’s requirements and maximise networking prospects which could benefit their careers. The AOP’s in-house experts will also be available to provide support and advice for members on areas such as career development, financial planning, and legal matters.”
Further capacity will be released in February, with additional spaces reserved for walk-ins on a first-come first-served basis.
For more information on all sessions and to book, visit www.100percentoptical.com.