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NHS Education for Scotland

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Placements and skills

Optometry

  

Cataract Clinic

NES are partnering with the Golden Jubilee National Hospital’s Ophthalmology Department, to enable community optometrists the unique chance to join the specialist team managing cataract surgery. You will shadow both Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Dr Sumona McLaughlin, and a senior cataract optometrist, as they assess newly referred patients from across every Health Board in Scotland, moving through the consenting for surgery process.

Find out more and book your sessions at our dedicated Turas Learn page.

Simulation-based placements

NES Optometry are running simulation-based Independent Prescribing Clinic Placements at Clinic M, Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow.

These placements comprise a series of innovative simulation scenarios developed around the groundbreaking EyeSi virtual reality slit lamp which is a highly realistic diagnostic training system for medical professionals. This integrates cutting edge virtual reality technology into the original hardware of a Haag Streit slit lamp, allowing you to examine virtual patients in real-time with the biomicroscope, fundoscopy lens and/or gonioscopy lens.

Find out more and book your sessions at our dedicated Turas Learn page.

Teach and treat clinics

NES has established regional teach and treat clinics to give community optometrists the opportunity to manage and treat patients under the close personal supervision of an ophthalmologist, while at the same time providing first class patient care for patients presenting with acute eye problems. 

The training is designed to increase the optometrist's exposure to acute conditions and work through the differential diagnosis to a management plan agreed with the Ophthalmologist. 

Find out more at our dedicated Turas Learn page.

Need more information?

Please contact: nes.optometrysimulation@nhs.scot