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If you are currently working towards the College of Optometrists’ Examination for Non-EEA Optometrists, you may be interested in our Facebook Study Group: Optometrists: Non-EEA and in the UK!. The objectives of the group are promote discussion between past and present candidates, share exam tips, experiences and ideas. In addition, we are now hosting an online discussion: [...]
For those of you who are preparaing for the forthcoming College of Optometrists OSCE’s (Objective Structured Clinical Examination), then we have created an Ask the Examiner thread. Please feel free to join the discussion!
A 78-year-old patient presented for refraction following a cataract extraction on the Right Eye. A nice easy start after lunch I thought. During history and symptoms she explained there may have been some complications during the surgery but was unsure exactly what those complications had been.
Binocular Vision was always one of my worries as a trainee. But why should that be? Is is poorly taught at university perhaps? Well, the answer to that is probably not. For some reason it is one of those topics that many have had trouble getting their heads around. And yet , there are only [...]
Over the past 18 months a friend of mine has been complaining of a deterioration her vision. She is a soft CL and Spectacle wearer. She originally complained that her new CL were not up to the job and even her glasses did not seem ‘strong enough’ (her words). After three visits to her own [...]
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