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Today several eye hospitals have their own training programmes for the AOP cadre. Often institutions face challenges such as:

1. balancing time for patient care and training activities
2. ensuring high quality outcomes while providing training opportunity
3. ensuring skill transfer
4. lack of training material for the AOP cadre

In order to address the quality of training of allied ophthalmic personnel (AOP), this conference brings together institutions to share best practices and resources for eye care training.

Objectives:

• This conference aims to create a platform to gather and disseminate best practices in training of allied ophthalmic personnel
• It also aims to identify high quality AOP training resources

Outcome:

• Identify innovative practices in AOP training
• Gather AOP training resources
• Identify resource persons and collaborators for AOP training
• Identify institutions who are actively engaged/innovating in AOP training

• Plenary session to showcase unique AOP training practices
• Call for paper and video presentations
• Online conference to showcase selected papers/videos
• Prizes for winners in each category

Tell us how you ensure training effectiveness. Submit an abstract under one of the five themes.

Selected papers will be invited to present at the online conference.

THEMES

• Teaching clinical topics to AOP trainees

What unique teaching methods do you use inside or outside your classroom to teach clinical theory/topics to your AOP* learners?

• Skill practice and assessment for AOP trainees

How do you ensure that your AOP learners become competent to perform the skills? How do you plan the practicals, clinical practice and skill assessment?

• Imparting soft skills to AOP trainees

How do you teach the necessary soft skills to allied ophthalmic personnel?

• Creating effective AOP trainers

How do you ensure that your trainers are effective in teaching your AOP learners? (Trainers may be doctors, senior AOP staff, external faculty etc.)

• Keeping your AOP staff updated

How do you ensure that your AOP staff are always kept relevant to perform their role effectively? How do you do provide refresher training, upskilling, and keep your AOP staff updated and current?

Videos have been found to be a very effective teaching tool. Do you create videos for your learners?

Submit a video under one of the following categories.

Selected videos (or excerpts) will be screened during the online conference.

CATEGORIES

• Skill-based topics

You can share any teaching video that explains about how to perform a skill related to allied ophthalmic personnel

Examples: Objective refraction using streak retinoscopy, How to measure visual acuity, How to counsel patients for cataract surgery

• Knowledge-based topics

You can share any teaching video that explains clinical or non-clinical theory for allied ophthalmic personnel

Examples: Anatomy of the eye, Refractive errors, Corneal diseases and disorders, Types of IOLs

It is important for AOP learners to have the opportunity to practice their clinical skills before they are placed in the clinic.

We are looking for innovative ways to give a chance for our AOP learners to practice their skills before they perform the skill on real patients (similar to using goat eye in the wet lab for cataract surgery practice)

Submit a video of how you create opportunity for simulation practice for your AOP learners.

Selected videos (or excerpts) will be screened during the online conference.

Simulation for Skill Practice

We are looking for innovative ways to give a chance for our AOP learners to practice their skills before they perform the skill on real patients (similar to the wet lab for cataract surgery)