Health and wellbeing webinars

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Optometry Today (OT) in partnership with the AOP with Johnson & Johnson Vision as headline sponsor and supported by Boots Opticians are pleased to deliver our first online locum day event.

This event offers a day of online education tailored to the needs of locum optometrists. Each session will be delivered by an expert in the field on a range of key topics of value to practitioners engaged in locum work.

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Clinical interest in myopia continues to grow with an increasing range of options available to manage its progression and help mitigate for the risks associated with the condition.

This event offers a full day of education delivered by experts from around the world offering key insights on the evidence-based management of myopia in clinical practice.

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This session will outline the common signs and symptoms of uveitis, how to refer patients and what will happen to them once they are seen. The role of optometrists and general practitioners in the ongoing management of uveitis will be discussed.

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In our upcoming webinar, we'll explore the three areas of identifying, preventing, and recovering from burnout. We'll share practical tips and advice to help you start to recognise and look out for the symptoms of burnout; develop strategies to prevent it from happening and recover if you're already experiencing it.

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This session will outline how optometrists in the community can better assess patients with central serous chorioretinopathy and decide on the urgency with which to refer them the Hospital Eye Service. The webinar will also provide helpful insights on imaging techniques and current treatments for the condition.

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This lunchtime webinar will help you understand how money works, from starting out in your first job, whether as an employee or self employed, and understand how you are paid and taxed under these employment types

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The last two years has tested us all beyond imagination, leaving many feeling emotionally drained, mentally exhausted and lacking in a sense of fulfilment. Through this wellbeing series, the AOP hopes to help you reconnect with what your life should be filled with and guided by - happiness.

This four part webinar series has been designed as a journey, ensuring that you have time across the year to embed your learning and new habits in between; however, the webinars can also be attended as standalone sessions that you feel might support a specific need.

This session will review the major UK medicolegal judgements, ophthalmology medicolegal studies and discuss issues that affect clinicians in every day practice taking these into account.

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Do you think that what you ‘see’ is a true representation of the visual world? It’s likely that the answer here is 'no' as we already know that we have an ‘invisible’ blind spot in each eye, but how far do you think this misrepresentation can go? This lecture will discuss how reliable the visual system really is, in terms of input and cortical processing, with a particular focus on the difference between 'vision' and 'conscious awareness' of sight. We will also consider the implications of individual differences in visual ability, how other factors can affect perception and discuss some clinically relevant examples, such as Charles-Bonnet Syndrome, blindsight, hemispatial neglect, and synaesthesia.

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This session will firstly discuss the overlap in clinical findings between glaucomatous optic neuropathy and non-glaucomatous optic neuropathy and suggest strategies for distinguishing these in the diagnostic work-up. The session will then explore the potential relevance of intracranial pressure as a risk factor for glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Finally, the emerging topic of glymphatics will be considered, which may be relevant not only to glaucoma but also to other neurodegenerative diseases.

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This session will outline the definition, prevalence and emergence of cerebral visual impairment as a diagnosis. The ocular manifestations, management and the role of the optometrist in case identification will be discussed.

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The last two years has tested us all beyond imagination, leaving many feeling emotionally drained, mentally exhausted and lacking in a sense of fulfilment. Through this wellbeing series, the AOP hopes to help you reconnect with what your life should be filled with and guided by - happiness.

This four-part webinar series has been designed as a journey, ensuring that you have time across the year to embed your learning and new habits in between; however, the webinars can also be attended as standalone sessions that you feel might support a specific need.