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SCO Competency Workshops
SCO run monthly competency workshops based in Glasgow to allow optometrists to work within Scotland. Please contact SCO for more information.
2008
All SCO open courses have a dual track format with a significant part of the day dedicated to assessing live patients and working in small, peer led groups.
Scottish Optometric Conference 2008 (est 8 credits inc CL credits)
Date: Sunday 23rd November 2008
Venue: Radisson SAS, Glasgow
Price: £100 / £60 SCO & OS Members (OS Dinner is also available for £35. The dinner is sponsored by Topcon)
Following the success of the SOC 2007, Optometry Scotland and SCO have decided to run another SOC! This conference will be SCO led and contain a focus on practical education along with forums for discussion with OS committee members regarding the political issues. The Key Note Speaker is NICOLA STURGEON MSP (Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing).
More information is available below and an advert is in the 31st October OT magazine... All confirmations and joining instructions will be sent by email.
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ELOS CET Programme 2007-08 (run by SCO)
The Edinburgh Local Optical Society programme is run every month. Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend.
Please click here for the ELOS programme 2007-08
Scottish Contact Lens Society
Their next meeting will take place on Wednesday 3rd December in the Hamish Wood Building at Glasgow Caledonian University at 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start. The speaker will be will be Mr Sathish Srinivasan, FRCSEd, FRCOphth Consultant from Ayr and the subject will be "Keratoconus: Past, Present and Future" The areas he will cover include:
1. Introduction
2. Clinical signs
3. Diagnosis
4. Management: CL, Intacs, ICL, and different types of corneal transplantation procedures
The talk will provide a broad overview of the etiopathogeneis, clinical features, diagnosis and up to date modalities on the treatment and management of keratoconus.
Contact: graemestevenson@btinternet.com for more info.
Practical Skills Workshop (evening roadshow) - Postponed!
Date: September 2008
Venue: Glasgow / Dundee / Edinburgh
Price: TBC
SCO will be running evening workshops in September on Volk lens, slit lamp technique contact tonometry and the advanced skills track will include BIO, pachymetry and gonioscopy. This will be run in small groups with patients and an advance skills track will be available.
More information will be released before the summer.
Moving Towards Independent Prescribing (est 6 credits) - Date Passed!
Date: Sunday 8th June 2008
Venue: Stirling Management Centre, Stirling University, Stirling
Price: £150 (SCO full members £75, SCO associate members £112.50)
Dr David Mansfield "Know Your Limits", Dr Ross Henderson "The ABC of Optometric Prescribing" and Prof Michael Doughty "If Optrex Fails, What Next" will be lecturing on prescribing rights developments, legislation changes, available products and further training options. The clinical angle will be red eye treatment.
Maggie Darroch and Neil Leslie will run a peer led tutorial which will cover real case scenarios and allow delegates the opportunity to discuss management options.
Patient Sessions: A range of patients will be available on the day to examine in small groups. The patients will be reviewed by Dr David Mansfield and open discussion is encouraged. This session will cover the following techniques:
1 Tear Function Index
2 Phenol Red
3 Tearscope
4 Punctal plug preparation & fitting
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Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Making (est 6 CET) - Date Passed!
Date: Sunday 9th March 2008
Venue: Govan Mbeki Building, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow
Price: £150 (SCO full members £75, SCO associate members £112.50)
Practical Sessions: Workshops will involve a session to brush up skills equipment technique and an opportunity to examine a complex range patients with the support of the SCO educator group. The patients will be summarised by Dr Jane Harcourt.
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