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Pre-Registration FAQs. 1: Ocular Disease and Investigative Techniques

Published October 6th, 2008 by Jane Macnaughton.

At this time of the year, pre-registration trainees are once again completing their Assessments.
Following the popular ‘Ask the Examiner’ threads over the past two years, we have compiled all of the questions and answers as FAQs and regrouped them all according to subject.
Our contributors have included Bill Harvey, Peter Chapman, Joy Myint, Dr Christine Astin, […]

World Sight Day - 9th October

Published October 3rd, 2008 by David.

We recently had an email from a company in the USA about helping them to spread the word about ‘World Sight Day’ which is on 9th October this year.
Now I didn’t know much about this but having looked into it, it seems to be a worthwhile event which needs support.
Taken from their site:
World Site Day […]

Did Captain Cook suffer from AMD? Or did he drink some Noni Juice?

Published September 18th, 2008 by Jane Macnaughton.

Captain Cook died at the age of 51 – so we will never know the answer to that question. However, as he sailed across the South Pacific in the mid 18th Century, it is doubtful whether he had a large supply of curly kale and spinach to keep up his reserves of Lutein and Zeaxanthin. […]

Do as I say, not as I do

Published August 26th, 2008 by Peter Chapman.

Most of us have bad habits, most of us do things we shouldn’t do, eat too much chocolate, or have one too many glasses of wine at the weekend. Most practicing Optometrists spend our days giving out advice and best practice to patients hoping that it will be followed.
“Always wash your hands before touching your […]

How is as important as what…

Published May 28th, 2008 by David.

I was recently doing some training in a sales based environment and I was talking to the audience about verbal communication and this time it was specifically to do with talking on the telephone
The focus of the training module was to focus on the point that “how you say something is as important as what you […]

In the Hot Seat - Richard Edwards

Published May 23rd, 2008 by David.

Richard Edwards, Head of Professional Resource at Boots Opticians discusses his 12 years at Boots, exciting new opportunities for practitioners, comes clean over his passion for football and how he developed his optometry skills in the Sacks at Aston.
What is your current role and title?
Head of Professional Resource & Development, Boots Opticians
What are your responsibilities?
Responsible for the […]

Should we take the ‘continuing’ out of ‘CET?’

Published May 17th, 2008 by Hugh.

The current CET cycle began at the start of last year. As we all know it runs for three years, during which I need to acquire a minimum of 36 CET points. For me a good spread of CET has come quite easily. After recently attending the College’s annual Conference, ‘Optometry Tomorrow’, I have now […]

Credit Crunch?

Published May 6th, 2008 by David.

The turmoil of the markets still seems to be in the papers with some Banks saying they are back on track for ‘08, The bank of England saying the Credit fears were overstated, The Halifax saying there was definitely a house price drop of 0.9% in April and Oil at a record of $120/barrell, I was left wondering whether […]

‘Hope is contagious,’ Len Seymour discusses today’s results of the Moorfields gene therapy trial.

Published April 28th, 2008 by Jane Macnaughton.

Len Seymour, professor of gene therapies at Oxford University and president of the British Society for Gene Therapy, discusses the impact of a gene therapy trial conducted on a young man with Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA), published as the leading article in the Independent today,
“Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis leads to progressive loss of sight. It is […]

The Bionic Eye

Published April 24th, 2008 by David.

On Monday, the BBC reported a trial of a ‘Bionic eye’ at Moorfields Eye Hospital and how it may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease.
The full transcript of the article can be read here:
Article
What are our thoughts about this exciting new development within the wide world […]

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