Imagine your busiest day, your most difficult patients, a new test room where the only equipment in working condition, is your retinoscope and ophthalmoscope. Now multiply the patient numbers by a factor of ten, and instead of frustration you feel at the end of the day, replace it with exhaustion not just physically but emotionally [...]
As usual at this time of year, we get alot of soon to be newly qualified Optometry students calling us wanting to know what is around and what they can expect in terms of job roles, salaries and future prospects so this year I thought (in the theme of Janes “ask the examiner” see below) [...]
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 The second of our Final Assessment courses takes place in the East Midlands at the Burleigh Court International Conference Centre, Loughborough, just one mile from junction 23 of the M1. Held over a weekend, this lecture-based course covers each of the subjects of the Final Assessment as interactive lecture presentations and a quiz or two. [...]
Peter Chapman has written an insightful piece about the upcoming Final Assessments. As one of these âmalevolentâ? examiners I have to re-iterate his point that actually we do want to pass the candidates and not fail them. Apart from anything else, failure requires more paperwork! Joking aside, we are not âout to get youâ?, our desire [...]
A great deal has happened with eye care in the past few years, though I am sure the cynics in the profession will continue to declare nothing has changed. There have been major changes in Scotland, and equally major changes in Wales. In England we have seen a recent review of General Ophthalmic Services, but [...]
The Pre-reg out there are nearing the end, and after 7-9 months of combining work and study, are now banished to the books, revising for the Final Assessment. After two degrees and two sets of professional exams, I sympathise thoroughly with you all – we have all been through it. Be reassured though. The exams [...]
In my opinion, practitioners can no longer rely on patients buying spectacles from their own practice. If the Internet is not enough to worry about, the ever increasing competitiveness of the High Street certainly is. Practice owners have a choice. They can either sit back and be scared by Internet retailers and competition or rise [...]
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