Binocular Vision Fundamentals
Instructors.
Kate GiffordAbout this course.
Binocular Vision Fundamentals is an innovative, world first online course to refresh and upskill your knowledge and clinical skills in binocular vision (BV) diagnosis and management. In this course, you will be guided through 12 lessons, which start with a simplified two-system approach to BV assessment and diagnosis. Stepping through understanding of the accommodation and vergence systems, it covers clinical tests, diagnostic criteria, prescribing and management. Once this foundation is set, the course moves onto clinical communication and the importance of BV in myopia management. Always with a laser sharp focus on the clinical applications, participants are provided video examples of assessment techniques and chairside infographic summary downloads to reference in practice, as well as reflection questions and peer discussion opportunities, and multiple-choice questions to test your learning.
Course Details.
Downloadable resources
100% Online
Completion certificate
Self paced learning
Graded quizzes
Accreditation.
Accredited in: Australia; New Zealand
Meet the instructors.
Dr Kate Gifford is an internationally renowned clinician-scientist optometrist and peer educator, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She holds a PhD in contact lens optics in myopia, four professional fellowships, over 100 peer reviewed and professional publications, and has presented almost 300 conference lectures around the world. Kate is the Chair of the Clinical Management Guidelines Committee of the International Myopia Institute. In 2016 Kate co-founded Myopia Profile with Dr Paul Gifford; the world-leading educational platform on childhood myopia management. After 13 years of clinical practice ownership, Kate now works full time on Myopia Profile.
What you will learn.
Chapter 1: Welcome to the course
Chapter 2: Why binocular vision matters
Understand the link between binocular vision disorders and patient symptoms, and relevance to myopia management.
Chapter 3: The two system approach
A simplified approach to assessing vergence and accommodation function is described, underpinning the rest of the course. The clinical picture of a normal binocular vision system is also provided.
Chapter 4: Assessing vergence
This chapter explains and demonstrates techniques to assess horizontal heterophoria and fusional reserves at distance and near, and provides a clinical picture of normal vergence function to support diagnosis.
Chapter 5: Assessing accommodation
This chapter explains and demonstrates techniques to assess accommodative lag and facility at near, and provides a clinical picture of normal accommodation function to support diagnosis.
Chapter 6: Accommodation and vergence interactions
The interaction between accommodation an vergence systems is described, from its mechanical basis to assessment of AC/A ratio at near using various techniques.
Chapter 7: Mastering your retinoscope
The most valuable part of your binocular vision toolkit - retinoscopy - is explained and demonstrated to help you master distance and near free-space measurement techniques.
Chapter 8: Managing vergence problems
In this chapter, we establish management pathways for vergence disorders involving a variety of techniques including adds, prism prescribing and vision training.
Chapter 9: Managing accommodation problems
In this chapter, we establish management pathways for accommodation disorders involving near adds and vision training techniques.
Chapter 10: Managing the two systems together
This chapter discusses complex cases of vergence and accommodation interaction, providing the framework for diagnosis and management of simultaneous disorders of both vergence and accommodation.
Chapter 11: Explaining BV to parents and patients
All of this new knowledge becomes clinically powerful when we can appropriately explain it to parents and patients. This chapter provides simple analogies and approaches to explaining complex clinical concepts in lay language.
Chapter 12: BV and myopia control
Binocular vision is relevant to myopia risk identification, prescribing and outcomes. This chapter explains the key ‘red flag’ conditions to enable formulation of comprehensive myopia management plans.
Chapter 13: Prescribing for BV and myopia management
The final chapter discusses myopia control efficacy and visual comfort outcomes in terms of binocular vision, including identification of specific management pathways with seven case studies.
Chapter 14: Next steps
Course Reviews.
4. 91
excellent course
i suggest this course for learning best skills for binocular vision problems management
MCV
Very useful course, I recommend it !
This course made approaching BV testing and applying vision training in a very easy and accessible way that can be done even in practices that do not specialise in BV testing.
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