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Welcome to OT 's Education library, where you can access archived CPD and CET articles, Practice team resources and Skills guides covering 31 topic areas.
This CPD exam is intended to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of childhood brain tumours among optometric practitioners
Author/s: Dr Deborah Armstrong BSc (Hons), PhD, MCOptom
Closed: 28 Dec 2022
This VRICs exam features four cases of neuro-ophthalmic vision loss. Readers are invited to review the images and access additional resources where required to answer the questions
Author/s: Dr Daniel Epshtein OD
Closed: 05 Mar 2021
This VRICS exam presents glaucoma-themed cases that may present in routine practice
Author/s: Dr Samantha Strong BSc (Hons), PhD, AFHEA, Dr Deborah Armstrong BSc (Hons), PhD, MCOptom
Closed: 27 Dec 2019
Although typically used to aid in diagnosing or monitoring glaucoma, a visual field plot often tells us more than this. In this VRICS exam practitioners should use their clinical expertise to interpre...
Author/s: Dr Lindsay Rountree BSc, PhD, MCOptom
Closed: 26 Jul 2019
This OT skills guide provides practitioners with a guide on getting reliable visual field results
Published: 03 Jul 2019
This OT skills guide provides practitioners with advise on interpreting the Humphrey Field Analyzer plot
This CET exam discusses blindsight, a phenomenon in which patients respond to stimuli presented to their perimetrically defined blind field. The neural pathways involved in both conscious and unco...
Author/s: Mason T Wells BSc, MSc, Professor Simon Rushton BSc, CNAA, PhD, Dr Tony Redmond BSc, PhD, MCOptom, FHEA, Dr Philip Clatworthy MB/BChir, PhD, FRCP, Dr Matt Dunn
Closed: 19 Apr 2019
Optometrists are regularly the first point of call for patients experiencing symptoms due to a brain tumour. This CET exam highlights the signs and symptoms that might present during an eye examinatio...
Author/s: Jasmin Patel MOptom (Hons), MCOptom
Closed: 07 Sep 2018
This CET article outlines the visual standards for driving in the UK and provides advice about what to do if a patient does not meet the required standard
Author/s: Professor Julie-Anne Little BSc (Hons), PhD, MCOptom, FHEA
Closed: 10 Aug 2018
In the CET Video exam, we discussed what you should do if a patient doesn't meet the required standard for driving but tells you they have no intention of informing the DVLA. It also examines the...
Author/s: Henry Leonard, Professor Julie-Anne Little BSc (Hons), PhD, MCOptom, FHEA
Closed: 04 Jul 2018
This CET exam considers the impact of visual field loss on everyday life, reviews currently available methods of functional field assessment, and discusses ways in which practitioners can utilise i...
Author/s: Professor Keziah Latham PhD, FCOptom, Prof Cert LV, Hikmat Subhi BSc (Hons), MCOptom
Closed: 07 Apr 2018
This CET Video exam describes how to differentiate between high-risk and low-risk neuro-ophthalmology presentations in optometric practice, with insight into how these are investigated by oph...
Author/s: James Acheson
Closed: 06 Mar 2018