Resources Page – Links and Downloads

For those of you who are intending to sit the College of Optometrists Final Assessment and NonEEA Qualified Optometrists Examination, we shall be building here a comprehensive list of useful links and downloads.

Please check back regularly as this page will be continuously updated.

Last updated: 30 th March 2009

 

General Information

• College of Optometrists
• Final Assessment Candidate Exam Sheets
• Final Assessment Guidelines
• The Directorate of Optometric Continuing Education and Training (DOCET)
• Codeof Ethics and Guidlelines (useful list of publications)
• How to Register to practice in the UK
• About the NonEEA examination
• NonEEA Examination Syllabus
• The NonEEA Route to Registration – Dispensing
• The NonEEA Route to Registration – Optometry
• 20% Discount off Elsevier Health Text Books
• The Association of Optometrists
• GOS and Regulatory

 

AOP: Aids for NonEEA Conversion Students

 

• ‘Ask the Examiner – the Final Assessment 2008′
• ‘Ask the Examiner – the Final Assessment 2007′
• ‘Ask the Examiner – the Final Assessment 2007‘ Download the full Q&A notes.
• ‘Ask the Non EEA Examiner.’

 

UK Law and Practice

• The General Optical Council
• Link to the GOC’s Core Competencies – All
• GOC Rules and Regulations
• Registration and Training of Opticians
• Continuing Education and Training (CET)
• CETOptics – UK CET requirments
• Disciplinary Proceedings
• The National Health Service (Handout from Catheriner Viner MCOptom)

 

• College of Optometrists – Code of Ethics and Guidleines for Professional Conduct
• Optometry Today – link to previously published articles

 

• Opticians Act documents
• General Ophthalmic Servce (GOS) Regulations
• Health Act 2006
• NHS Forms
• Access to Health Records
• Access to Health Records Act 1990
• Data Protection Act 1998
• VDU Directive
• VDU Examination guidleines – users – AOP
• VDU/DSE Guidance – AOP

 

• Contract Law
• Sale of Goods Act
• Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982
• Consumer Protection Act
• Clinical Negligence
• Optical Bodies and Functions
• Eyecare Trust (previously the EIS)
• OCCS – Optical Consumer Complaints Service

 

• Employment Rights Act 1996
• Partnership Act 1890
• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Occupiers Liability Act 1957
• Occupiers Liability Act 1984
• Disability Discrimination Act 1995
• Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998
• Offences Against the Persons Act 1861
• Sexual Offences Act 1956
• European Community and Optometry

 

Dispensing & Occupational Optometry

• Vision Standards
• ABDO
• Standards:
• BS EN ISO 5725pt2 1994(2002), BS EN ISO 7998 2005, BS EN ISO 8429 1997, BS EN ISO 8596 1996 BS EN ISO 8597, 1996, BS EN ISO 8598 1998, BS EN ISO 8624 2002, BS EN ISO 8980 – 1 2004, BS EN ISO 8980 – 2 2004, BS EN ISO 8980 – 3 2003, BS EN ISO 8980 – 4 2006, BS EN ISO 9342 1998, BS EN ISO 9456 1997, BS EN ISO 9801 1999, BS EN ISO 10012 -1 2003/92/94, BS EN ISO 10322 – 1 2006, BS EN ISO 10332 – 2 2006, BS EN ISO 11381 1997, BS EN ISO 11715 1998, BS EN ISO 12870 2004, BS EN ISO 13230 1999, BS EN ISO 13666 1999, BS EN ISO 14889 2003, BS EN ISO 15253 2000, BS EN ISO/IEC 17025 2005, DD ENV 14027 2001, ISO/TR 28980 2007
• ABDO: Lists of British Standards
• DOCET’s Occupational Optometry Online Distance Learning Programme
• Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO)
• Eye Protection: this useful catalogue from A&E Russel has some good pictures:
• Peter Chapmans’ Guide to Facial Measurements
• Frame Materials: excellent article from Glyn Walsh here
• Frame Rules and other equipment Keeler Student Catalogue 
• Thorn Lighting – recommendations for good lighting 

Lens Manufacturers: Product details

• Norville
• Lens Catalogue
• Prescription Companion
• Frame Rulers
• Essilor
• Lens Catalogues
• Hoya
• Rodenstock
• BBGR
• Zeiss
• Nikon

 

Low Vision

• Free to download – online pre-registration lecture – The Low Vision Core Competencies
• Tiresias
• RNIB
• Identification and Notification of Sight Loss
• Certificate of VIsion Imairment (CVI)
• The Low Vision Leaflet (LVL)
• The Referral of Vision Impairment (RVI)
• Eye Essentials – Low Vision Assessment-Jane Macnaughton
• AOP: Blindess and Partial Sight information

 

Investigative Techniques

• Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy Part 1 – Charlotte McAllister (Optician Journal 2007)
• Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy – Tina Romanay and Bill Harvey (Optician Journal 2006)
• Eye Essentials – Assessment and Investigative Techniques (Bill Harvey and Sandip Doshi)
• Eye Essentials – Visual Fields Examination – Robert Cubbidge
• Colour Vision Examination Leaflets – useful for the basics
• Visual Field defects- online plot examples from the Glaucoma Service Foundation
• User Manual – Henson 3200

 

The Routine Exam

• Free to download – Online Pre-registration Lecture: The Routine Exam
• Routine Examiner Checklist
• Printable Snellen 6/60 letters
• College of Optometrists Routine Exam Sheet
• Commonly used UK Abbreviations list (College of Optometrists)
• Eye Essentials – Routine Eye Examination (Bill Harvey and Andy Franklin)
• General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) Forms

Suggested equipment list (not a definitive list – please add in your own favourite pieces of equipment)

Essential:

• Retinoscope & Ophthalmoscope
• Additional fully charged handles for each ‘scope or spare batteries x 4
• Pen torches (plus spare bulb and batteries ora second pen torch)
• Trial frame checked to be in full working order
• Frame / PD Rule
• Pens

Although provided by the Exam Centre you may also wish to have:

• Crossed cyls & twirls
• Clean lens cloth

Most candidates regularly bring:

• Cover test occluder and Budgie stick (or equivalent)
• Tape measure
• Watch / small clock or timer
• Confrontation target (if you intend to use)

 

Ocular Disease & Abnormality

• Review of Optometry: http://www.revoptom.com/HANDBOOK/hbhome.htm
• The National Eyecare Pathways
• National Library for Health – Eyes and Vision Specialist Library
• Eye Tumour Atlas – Bertil Damato

Texts

• Moorfields Manual of Ophthalmology – Timothy L Jackson (Editor)

 

Drugs

• Medicines Act
• Optometrists Formulary (Revised in 2007)
• Optometrists Formulary Appendix A

 

Contact Lens Practice

College Candidate Exam Sheets (Final Asessment only – those for the NonEEA Exam ar contained within the Regulations for the N0nEEA Exam – above)

• Contact Lens Fitting
• Contact lens Aftercare
• Rigid Gas Permeable Contact lens Fitting

Texts

• Eye Essentials – Soft Lens Fitting – Andy and Ngaire Franklin
• Eye Essentials – Rigid Gas Permeable Lens Fitting – Andy and Ngaire Franklin
• The Contact Lens Manual – Judith Morris and Andrew Gasson
• ACLM Handbook

 

• College statements on Sale and Supply of Contact Lenses
• College statements on Plano Contact Lenses

 

Binocular Vision

• Eye Essentials – Binocular Vision – Andy Franklin
• What’s on BV
• BV Assessment – Optician Online Article (Franklin & Harvey)
• Opaque Occluders from Haag Streit
     

Expired CET from the Optometry Blog: Free to download

• Link to all expired CET articles and podcasts

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