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CLEARVIEW Training was established on 2005 to provide education and training for the optical industry.
With CLEARVIEW, you will find a wide variety of informative, well-organised and thought provoking training solutions.
With over fifteen years experience of organising and delivering educational programmes for Optometrists, Dispensing Opticians, and Pre-registration Trainees, we understand how valuable your time is and how essential it is to not only receive the right training, but to also have access to the latest thinking. That’s why at CLEARVIEW we listen carefully to our clients to ensure that we continue to deliver training that’s right for you.
Our clients range form small to large, from the independent to the corporate, from the individual to the LOC.
Recent Clinical Posts
Pre-Registration FAQs: Ocular Disease & Investigative Techniques
At this time of the year, pre-registration trainees are once again completing their Assessments. Following the popular Ask the Examiner threads in the past, 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, Prof David Henson, Henri Obstfeld, Catherine Viner, Miss Parul [...]
Optical Appliances Competency 4.9
Competency 4.9 The ability to manage non-tolerance cases If a non-tolerance case occurs, practitioners must be able to logically identify the problem quickly and efficiently. This competency assesses the trainee’s ability to listen to the patient and to solve the problem. Non-tolerance cases can occur for many reasons. They could be generally categorised as, Pathological [...]
Optical Appliances Competency 4.3
Competency 4.3 The ability to advise on the use of, and to dispense simple low vision aids including: hand and stand magnifiers, typoscopes and hand held telescopes There is a considerable amount of information covered under this particular competency. To be able to advise upon the use of and to dispense simple low vision aids, [...]
Optical Appliances Competency 4.8
An understanding of the application of complex low vision aids e.g. spectacle-mounted telescopes, CCTV Under this section, the group of ‘complex’ low vision aids consist of telescopes and electronic magnification systems, of which CCTV’s are just one type. As the majority of complex low vision aids are prescribed and dispensed by practitioners based either within [...]
What’s on BV – Episode 3 – How to get more from your occluder – Part 3
When is a tropia not a tropia? The previous episodes have covered the topics of asymmetric phoria and the importance of recovery in latent squint. This episode aims to highlight the importance of observing both the covered and uncovered eye on the cover test. I tested an 11 year old girl recently who has a [...]
Recent Blog Posts
Has RGP fitting become the new ‘rocket science?’
Over recent years I appear to be fitting less and less rigid gas permeable lenses in the GOS. At a recent gathering, some friends were even debating whether or not GP lens fitting should now become a ‘specialist service’ only to be provided by practitioners who manage to demonstrate the experience. After all, with dwindling [...]
The OSCES, Selective Attention and the Invisible Gorilla
First Published in Optometry Today, May 2011 History: why did the College implement the move? The College introduced the OSCE’s, or Objective Structured Clinical Examinations a few years back as a forward move to a system of pre-registration examinations that were seen to be less biased, impartial and non-discriminatory. Like many significant changes in any [...]
The contact lens patient knows best
There I was, Friday afternoon, reflecting on a week comprising of mainly routine refractions but with the few interesting cases that kept my brain active. However, one area of clinical practice that I had observed during the week worried me: Contact lens wearers seem to know best!
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