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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 considers the links between low vision and depression, and highlights the role practitioners can take in assisting these patients
Author/s: Preeti Singla MCOptom, MSc, Prof Cert Glau, DipTp(IP)
Closed: 07 Apr 2018
This CET exam explores the literature to outline evidence-based approaches to managing myopia progression
Author/s: Katherine Franklin BSc (Hons), MCOptom, Dr Nicola Logan BSc, MEd, PhD, MCOptom, SFHEA
Closed: 09 Mar 2018
This CET exam will explore the role of artificial intelligence decision support systems in providing a new, safer, environment for optometrists in primary care
Author/s: Sameer Trikha FRCOphth, MBA, Dr Nicolas Jaccard PhD
Closed: 09 Feb 2018
This CET exam provides an overview of the development of OCT, along with an insight into the direction of current research, including the use of artificial intelligence for computer-aided diagnosis
Author/s: Louise Terry BSc, MCOptom, AFHEA
Closed: 10 Nov 2017
Modern designs and materials that deliver improved performance have increased the prescribing of toric soft contact lenses. But there is still potential for growth in daily disposable torics
Author/s: Alison Ewbank FCOptom
Closed: 10 Mar 2017
What factors really influence the fit of a soft contact lens, and, in these days of one fit contact lenses ,what control do professionals have over adjusting the fit? This article looks at the evide...
Author/s: Dr Alison Alderson PhD, MCOptom
Closed: 10 Feb 2017
This article discusses how vitreoretinal surgical robots, operating under multi-modal imaging, can augment the capabilities of vitreoretinal surgeons to perform currently impossible interventions and ...
Author/s: Christos Bergeles, Lyndon da Cruz
Closed: 28 Dec 2016
This review is aimed at providing the reader with an overview of non-infectious uveitis and the current and emerging treatment options for the disease
Author/s: Dr Naba Elsaid, Dr Zeeheh Elsaid
Closed: 11 Nov 2016
This video will provide insight into the problems associated with the increasing prevalence of myopia worldwide. It will discuss the possible mechanisms of myopia development, while optical and...
Author/s: Dr Janis Orr
Closed: 01 Nov 2016
In the second part of this series, the latest research relating to our understanding of eye dominance will be explored with its significance considered in relation to sport and monovision correction
Author/s: Professor Brendan Barrett
Closed: 09 Sep 2016
This article will provide a review of the current understanding of the genetic, environmental and optical factors involved in myopia, along with the basis for mechanisms of myopia control, and why ...
Author/s: Dr Kate Gifford PhD, BAppSc (Optom) Hins, GCOT, FBCLA, FIACLE, FCCLSA, FAAO
Closed: 08 Jul 2016
This article gives a summary of up-to-date prevalence of refractive errors in the UK and how these compare with historical UK data and the onset, progression and risk factors of myopia in childhood a...
Author/s: Dr Sara McCullough, Dr Kathryn Saunders