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OT to launch CET survival pack
The pack is designed to help practitioners secure any outstanding competencies as the end of the CET cycles draws to a close
26 October 2018
OT will next week launch a survival pack of CET exams that are designed to aid practitioners in securing the competencies they are required to collect as part of the enhanced CET cycle.
The current three-year CET cycle is due to close on 31 December. As there is no grace period for the current cycle, all practitioners must meet the cycle’s 36 point and competency requirements before the deadline.
The pack contains eight CET exams, including two videos. The exams have been selected specifically because, combined, they cover all of the required competencies for optometrists, dispensing opticians and contact lens opticians. They also cover five of the eight competencies that are required of therapeutic optometrists.
The articles within the survival pack have been selected from the vast portfolio of CET that OT has run during the current three-year enhanced CET cycle. While the articles have been previously published, new multiple-choice questions have been created for each exam in line with the General Optical Council’s requirements.
Explaining the concept of the pack, OT clinical editor and head of education, Dr Ian Beasley, said: “The pack has been created in recognition of the fact that many practitioners may well have met their points total by this stage of the cycle, but are perhaps in need of one or two competencies in order to meet the GOC’s requirements.”
Practitioners who have passed an exam previously cannot re-take an exam.
The exams will be open from 1 November until midnight on 26 December. Visit OT's CET section.
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