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NUS: Glaucoma for the General Ophthalmologist: Long Term Care
This course will explore a quick revision of the long-term monitoring of glaucoma patients who had glaucoma interventions. Learners will also be taught the vision rehabilitation and ways to manage patients with low vision.
This Course Includes
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4 weeks at 1-2 hours per week
english
Online - Self Paced
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NUS
About NUS: Glaucoma for the General Ophthalmologist: Long Term Care
The Glauc-Go Course has been designed for eye specialists practicing general or comprehensive ophthalmology, in private or institutional practices, who are keen to update their understanding, knowledge, improve skills on glaucoma diagnosis and initiating medical therapy. The course is easily accessible online from the comfort of your clinics, offices or homes. The course content has been sub-divided into 3 modules with a short online quiz to allow participants to consolidate what they have learnt. The course aims to cover important topics such as distinguishing glaucoma from non-glaucoma presentations to help one confidently make the initial diagnosis and to ascertain the appropriate first line of therapy. Contemporary surgical options (including laser therapy) and pearls in the care of patients with low vision will be amongst the topics covered.
What You Will Learn?
- Identifying rapid progressors.
- Indicate the progression of glaucoma and learn how to monitor the disease.
- Identify the concept of rapid progressors.
- Glaucoma surgery (including MIGS, trabeculectomy, tube) What’s on the horizon .
- What’s on the horizon.
- Identify the common forms of glaucoma surgery.
- What is Low Vision?.
- Aspects of vision and function.
- Explain the definition of low vision.
- Learn the functional impacts of low vision.
- Identify the goals of vision rehabilitation and its role in ophthalmic practice.
- Integrate low vision care into glaucoma management.