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Communication & Professional Conduct Competency 1.10
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Competency 1.10 The ability to communicate bad news to patients in an empathic and understandable way This competency deals with the capability of the trainee to discuss subjects with patients that may be of a difficult and often a distressing nature. Best Form Evidence In an ideal situation the Assessor would probably prefer to witness [...]
Communication & Professional Conduct Competency 1.9
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Competency 1.9 The ability to communicate with patients who have poor, or non-verbal, communication skills, or those who are confused, reticent or who might mislead This competency examines your capability to deal with patients who may be more difficult or challenging to communicate with. You need to be able to conduct a thorough eye examination [...]
Clinical Conundrum – what would you do?
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
As a locum I occasionally come across previous practitioner’s work which raises an eyebrow. However, I came across this young man recently: Age 10, routine review, asymptomatic. Previous practitioner reports: +0.50 R&L. No Rx given. Today the findings were RVA 6/5 +2.50 = 6/5 LVÂ 6/5 +2.50 = 6/5 I believe [...]
Pre-Registration FAQs: Ocular Disease & Investigative Techniques
January 25, 2012 By
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 [...]
The OSCES, Selective Attention and the Invisible Gorilla
January 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
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 [...]
Optical Appliances Competency 4.9
January 18, 2012 By 1 Comment
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
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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