Contact Lenses for Kids
Instructors.
Kate GiffordAbout this course.
Contact Lenses for Kids is a three hour, comprehensive learning journey to increase knowledge, confidence and management skills in paediatric contact lens practice. It is specifically designed to increase confidence in fitting children (aged 12 and under) with contact lenses, providing the theoretical knowledge and practical tools to understand how successful, satisfied and safe children can be as contact lens wearers, especially in comparison to teens and adults. With a strong evidence base of 80+ scientific references, this course explains the multitude of reasons that children can thrive in contact lens wear, and how to ensure clinical communication and practice processes are set up for success.
Course Details.
Downloadable resources
100% Online
Completion certificate
Self paced learning
Graded quizzes
Accreditation.
Accredited in: Australia
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: Reasons to fit kids with contact lenses
Beyond the simple correction of ametropia, there are multiple functional, developmental and psychological benefits to kids wearing contact lenses which will be described in this chapter.
Chapter 3: Contact lens safety in children
This chapter provides a scientific review on contact lens safety in children, including how to communicate this to parents and patients.
Chapter 4: Mythbusting: Time, Cost, Compliance & Management
Practitioner and parental misconceptions about contact lens wear in kids can present unnecessary barriers to uptake. This chapter describes the research evidence to overcome these barriers, including specific outcomes in children and teens.
Chapter 5: Clinical considerations and initial fitting
This chapter describes the clinical considerations for initial fitting, including high ametropia, contact lens materials and modalities, pre-existing dry eye risk, handling training, informed consent and resources to support you in practice.
Chapter 6: Follow up visits and management
When moving from initial fitting, successful follow up includes practical and clinical aspects. This chapter will detail scheduling, factors affecting continued wear and dropout, managing vision and comfort outcomes and reinforcing compliance.
Chapter 7: Ensuring long term success and safety
Bringing it all together to achieve long term success, this chapter explores smart set up of in-practice systems including consent, cost, parental communication, staff training and marketing. A template parent information sheet is provided for you to download and customize to your practice.
Chapter 8: Next steps
Course Reviews.
4. 77
Excellent Resource
This is an excellent resource for Optometrists who desire to expand their contact lens fitting abilities for children.
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