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January 2021
Paediatric Ophthalmology CAG Webinar
This will be the first webinar for the Paediatric Ophthalmology Extended Role CAG taking place at 6pm on the 18th January 2021. The event will consist of 3 talks ranging across the Paediatric Ophthalmology spectrum of work. Agenda/Running Order 6:05pm-6:30pm: Ocular surface disease/red eye in the paediatric population- Mrs Melanie Hingorani- consultant paediatric ophthalmologist/chair of UKOA (Moorfields Eye Hospital) 6:35pm-7:00pm: Orthoptic led JIA service at NDDH- Mrs Susan Thorne- Deputy Head/Advanced Orthoptist (North Devon District Hospital) 7:05pm-7:30pm: Swollen discs- Ms Naz Raoof- consultant paediatric ophthalmologist (Moorfields Eye Hospital)
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Midlands and East Study Day
Agenda below; 9:15 - 10:00 : Intro - Haseeb Ali: Stroke and Anatomy Refresh / Stroke Classifications / Differential Diagnosis 10:00 - 10:30 : Stoke UHNM: Orthoptic IIH Monitoring 10:30 - 11:00 : Jess Bond BMEC: COVID and Incidence of neurogenic referrals 11:00 - 11:15 : Break 11:15 - 12:00 : Shakti Kasbia: Invited speaker from Novartis (AMD Overview and Extended Orthoptist roles) 12:00 - 12:30 : Kirsty Clay BMEC: Virtual Glaucoma Clinic 12:30 - 13:00 : Joanne Gosling ULHT: Orthoptic Led Shared Care Glaucoma Service
Find out more »March 2021
LOOP Virtual Event
Virtual conference delivered by the LOOP steering committee. Open to all Heads/Deputy Heads/Leads of services. Agenda 1.30pm Welcome and Update – Sonia MacDiarmid Chair of LOOP 1.40pm Job planning for Orthoptic staffing – Veronica Greenwood Chair of BIOS 2.35pm Short comfort break 2.40pm AHP’s into Action – Nicola Hirst and Carly Hegarty Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 3.00pm Equitable allocation update – Claudine Wallace Lecturer in Orthoptics GCU 3.20pm BIOS Preceptorship: Early analysis of new graduate and mentor experiences- Martha Waters Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 3.35pm Paediatric diagnostic clinics – Chloe Gerrard and Oliva MacLelland Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 3.50pm Redesigning paediatric [...]
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Orthoptic Visual Processing Difficulties CAG Webinar
Visual Processing Difficulties Clinical Advisory Group Webinar 09.00 Orthoptist Extended Role specialising in Visual Processing Difficulties Kathryn Whitfield 10.00 Testing VPD patients virtually - Covid-19 Experience Jenny Martin & Ruth Ruddock 10.45 Comfort Break 11.00 Public Health – Making Every Contact Count (MECC) Dr Jignasa Mehta 11.30 Understanding stress and anxiety within dyslexic children and building resilience. Sajida Hanif 12.00 Questions 12.30 Close of Meeting
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June 2021
BIOS CONFERENCE & AGM
The BIOS conference and AGM will be held over two days: Friday 11th June - Afternoon - 1:00pm-4.30pm will be an interesting afternoon of talks from orthoptists newly trained in extended roles (IVT, JIA and Glaucoma) and the CAG leads giving an update and the benefits of CAG membership. The AGM will be in the middle and we have Dr Nadia Northway giving a brief update in OPT and how this will change Orthoptic practice. 1.00pm - Alison Baxter, JIA 1.20pm - Julianne Baker, IVT 1.40pm - Kendal Hinds, Glaucoma 2:00pm - Dr Nadia Northway, OPT 2.15 - 3.15 - BIOS [...]
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BIOS Clinical Tutors’ Course – Spring 2021
Are you keen to develop you clinic teaching skills? There are limited places available for the BIOS clinical tutor course. The course fulfils the requirements for Lead Clinical Tutor. This course will be delivered remotely with some work to be carried out independently prior to the course, and between the sessions. The course will cover; the expectations of students at each stage in the course, how to adapt your teaching to suit your learners, how to adapt your work environment to maximise learning, balancing clinical pressures whilst providing a productive learning experience, giving constructive feedback writing assessments. Attendance at both sessions [...]
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Regional Trade Union Meetings
You will receive the link to the meeting 48 hours prior.
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Midlands and East Study Day
Event open to all Orthoptists, not region specific. 9:15: Intro - Haseeb Ali (Midlands & East Trustee) 9:20 - 9:50 : Jessica Francis : Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - COVID and Neurogenic Palsies 9:50 - 10:20 : Helen Simpson / Rahilah Bukhari : University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire : Paediatric Eye Casualty. Break 10:20 - 10:30 10:30 - 11:00 : Victoria Jarvis : Nottingham University Hospitals : Orthoptist Specialist Role 11:00 - 11:30 : Shakti Kasbia : Medical Science Liaison (Novartis) : AMD and Imaging 11:30 - 12:00 : Hanish Chauhan : University Hospitals Leicester : Adapting to COVID
Find out more »September 2021
Refresher Clinical Tutors Course
In addition to the popular Clinical Tutors Course (CTC), for which new dates will be available soon, EPDC have agreed a short refresher clinical tutors' course for people who have already attended a CTC or are a DBO(D). There will be 4 x approx 1 hour online Zoom sessions with a short piece of homework, marking some pre written assessments, between sessions 3 and 4. The dates for the first course are: Wed 8th Sept 7pm University placements Mon 13th Sept 4pm Supervision Tues 14th Sept 4pm Feedback Tues 21st Sept 4pm Assessment
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