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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 CET exam outlines the clinical presentation and potential underlying causes of diplopia, which can arise in routine practice.
Author/s: Fabrizio Bonci Dip Optom (ITA)
Closed: 21 Jun 2019
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
Papilloedema is common in young, obese women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension. In this CET Video, Dr Leonard Messner discusses how the condition presents itself, how it progresses and how it...
Author/s: Leonard V. Messner
Closed: 16 Mar 2019
This VRICS exam presents a range of optic nerve pathologies. Practitioners should use their clinical expertise and access additional resources where necessary to complete the questions
Author/s: Stanley Keys FCOptom, Dip Glauc, Dip Tp (IP)
Closed: 22 Feb 2019
This CET Video exam introduces the basics of brain imaging - MRI and CT scanning. Vision and visual-motor problems are commonly caused by neurological disease. Filmed at the London Therapeutics Co...
Closed: 26 Dec 2018
This VRICS exam presents a series of anomalies resulting from cranial nerve damage for the practitioner to interpret
Author/s: Prashant Shah MCOptom, PGDipOphth, DipClinOptom, Yashita Shah MCOptom, PGDipOphth
Closed: 07 Sep 2018
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
This CET article outlines the basic principles of high-level processing and uses a series of visual illusions to explain the underlying mechanisms
Author/s: Dr Samantha Strong BSc (Hons), PhD, AFHEA, Dr Corinne Fulcher BSc (Hons), PhD
Closed: 10 Aug 2018
This CET exam provides an overview of early visual processing and describes how the properties of some of these neurons may give rise to a number of visual illusions
Author/s: Dr Corinne Fulcher BSc (Hons), PhD, Dr Samantha Strong BSc (Hons), PhD, AFHEA
Closed: 06 Jul 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
This CET exam considers visual deficits associated with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, and how these may affect patients in everyday life
Author/s: Dr Laura E Sweeney PhD, BSc, MCOptom, Dip Tp(IP), FHEA, Julia Blair MSc, BA (Hons)
Closed: 09 Feb 2018
This CET exam considers the classification of and different approaches to managing ptosis
Author/s: Dr Narendra Kumar BAMS, DROpt, PGCR
Closed: 27 Dec 2017