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With the number of people living with glaucoma in the UK expected to increase by almost a third between 2020 and 2035, Glaucoma UK is urging people to get their eyes tested. As part of Glaucoma Awareness Week 2022, which will run from 27 June to 3 July, the charity is highlighting the importance of regular sight tests, commonly referred to as eye tests, with the aim of ending preventable glaucoma sight loss.
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ President Bernie Chang is guest speaker at the prestigious keynote speech, The George Giles Memorial Lecture, at Optometry Tomorrow 2022.
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The RCOphth Exams Team is pleased to confirm a partnership with the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) whose National Resource Centre will be the permanent UK host venue for all UK sittings of the Refraction Certificate examination from 2023 onwards. The Refraction Certificate exam will take place at ABDO’s state of the art facilities every May, September and December.
After 2 years of running revised patientless exams due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College has now been granted GMC approval to implement a new hybrid format for both exams starting from this coming November.
The SAS as educators paper, approved at the last Academy Council meeting, has now been published on our website.
SAS workforce and mentorship statement endorses the importance of the opportunities for SAS doctors to be mentored and act as mentors, at both a national and local level.
In this episode, we speak with Sohaib Rufai, an NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Academic Ophthalmology Registrar, about his work in Leicester and Great Ormond Street Hospital using handheld OCT in children with rare diseases.
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) has chosen Trinidad and Tobago as an exam location for the 2022 RCOphth Refraction Certificate and 2022 Part 2 of the Fellow RCOphth Oral examinations.
This new scheme offers junior ophthalmology doctors from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds the opportunity to effect positive change by being a mentor.
