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Communicating the Myopia Message

course_advanced_icon.svg Advanced courses25 Lessons, 2 hours, 20 MCQ's Accredited in: Australia

Instructors.

Kate Gifford
Purchase for USD $50.00
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About this course.

Communicating the Myopia Message will help you master effective and efficient clinical myopia management without having to become a science expert. One of the biggest barriers to putting myopia management into practice is knowing how to approach discussing myopia correction, control, goals and outcomes in an efficient time frame. The key inspiration for this course is to tackle the challenge of communication: providing you tried-and-tested key messages and practical tools to offer the best possible care to your young myopic patients while also setting up your practice systems for success.


The interactive two-hour course covers all aspects of the myopia management journey. It will increase your skills and confidence to discuss myopia onset and progression; describe management options and guide parents through decision-making and informed consent; explain and manage long-term outcomes; involve practice staff and provide ongoing patient education to ensure best practice myopia management. Each lesson provides a scientific foundation with advice on communicating this knowledge to parents. You'll find interactive parent communication scenarios, downloadable support tools, quick quizzes and more in engaging formats. Start here to master the myopia message and communicate for clinical success.

Course Details.

Downloadable resources

100% Online

Completion certificate

Self paced learning

Graded quizzes

Accreditation.

Accredited in: Australia

Meet the instructors.

Kate-portrait_WZafDTrZC.pngKate Gifford

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: Introduction

Learn about the course content, navigate the platform and set your learning goals.

Chapter 2: Key messages on myopia risk, correction and control

Learn how to explain the risks for myopia onset, progression and lifelong eye health, plus the key messages and framing of short-term and long-term benefits of myopia management.

Chapter 3: Myopia management treatment options

Here we'll pull together the latest science into easy messages and prescribing processes for myopia treatment options, as well as exploring informed consent.

Chapter 4: Three key questions asked by parents

Test your communication skills with interactive parent discussion scenarios, and develop your main messages to cover these common parental questions.

Chapter 5: Long term management success

How do you know it's working? This important chapter covers how to set appropriate goals, determine success, explain treatment outcomes to parents and manage poor outcomes.

Chapter 6: Myopia management outside of the exam room

Leverage your newfound communication skills in the consultation room with guidelines and materials to train your practice staff, and support parents in their ongoing learning journey.

Course Reviews.

4.89

interactive and easy to follow

The class was highly interactive and easy to follow

Alex G - 17 days ago

Simple and Professional

Excellent cousre with practical, evidence-based information that I can apply in my clinical practice.

Chantell B - 1 month ago

Great course

I learned many things from this course but no sweat because the information was so amazing.

Long Đ - 11 months ago
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