We offer a wide range of seminars, surgical skills courses and webinars for everyone involved in ophthalmic care and service development.
Scroll down to see details of all the webinars, training events and skills courses taking place over the next few months. Click on the dropdowns to view our events by category, then click on your selected course to see more information and to book your place.
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Student/Foundation Doctors Ophthalmology Review Day
Date: 19/6/26 Location: Birmingham
Date: 2/10/26 Location: Glasgow
This event will cover clinical knowledge and skills at a level appropriate for medical students in their clinical years. It’s a refresher course intended for medical students who want to cover the essential ophthalmology knowledge and core skills in a day. By the end of the day attendees should be able to safely assess patients presenting with an ophthalmic problem and make an appropriate management or referral decision.
Book for Birmingham 19/6/26
Book for Glasgow 2/10/26
Specialist registration via the portfolio pathway
Date: 26/11/26 Location: London
This is a one day workshop for doctors who wish to obtain specialist registration via the Portfolio Pathway. The programme will include an overview of the Portfolio pathway process, guidance on what evidence to submit, tips from those who have submitted successful Portfolio pathway applications, a practical exercise discussing evidence from a real application, and a Q&A session.
This event is intended for doctors who:
Introduction to ophthalmic surgery
Date: Various – see below Location: London
This course is designed to serve as an introduction to ophthalmic surgery and gives trainees the opportunity to learn some of the core skills that form the building blocks of ophthalmic surgery. The focus is on hands-on practical experience with only short introductions to each topic and at least five hours of simulated surgery using the latest model eyes. The course is open to foundation doctors, medical students, overseas doctors, in fact anyone who is considering a career in ophthalmology.
16/7/26 – book this course
17/7/26 – book this course
IOL Fixation
Date: 12 October Location: London
This is a practical course which will cover a wide variety of IOL fixation techniques including iris clipped IOLs, sutured IOLs and scleral tunnel fixation. The content will be delivered using surgical videos and wet lab components. This course is aimed mainly at consultants and very senior trainees.
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Cornea Curriculum course
Date: 22-23 October Location: London
This is a surgical skills, two-day-course on Corneal transplantation (penetrating keratoplasty, DALK, DSEK, PDEK and DMEK), and Common Corneal procedures (Suturing, gluing, Amniotic membrane suturing corneal laceration).Wet Lab training on common corneal procedures, PKP and DALK. Suitable for mid-career trainees and early career consultants. Overseas doctors are welcome.
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Ultrasound seminar
Date: Various- see below Location: London
This one day course, introduces the basic training in ophthalmic ultrasound. The course provides opportunity to conduct “hand-on-hand” supervised scanning on volunteers. It is suitable for all grades of ophthalmologists and allied professions.
