Past Events › 2024 Event

Thursday 21st November 2024 - 9.15am - 5.00pm and Friday 22nd November 2024 - 9.00am - 1pm Are you keen to develop your clinic teaching skills? There are limited places available for the BIOS clinical tutor course. The course fulfils the requirements for Lead Clinical Tutor. The course will cover; • Providing a good placement experience • Maximising learning during placement • Balancing clinical pressures whilst providing a productive learning experience • Inspiring professionalism in our learners • Giving constructive feedback • Writing assessments Course fee includes refreshments on both days, and a sandwich lunch on Day 1. Please advise of [...]

This is an online event for early careers Orthoptists (ideally first 5 years of working), giving you the chance to let us know your thoughts about the Union, including your experiences and awareness of our current work and what we can do to better support you in the future.

As part of National AHP Support Workforce Week (25th-29th November), BIOS are kicking off the week in style, with a lunchtime webinar. We will celebrate all things related to our Orthoptic and Ophthalmic Clinical Assistant and Support Workforce, including sharing some key points from our recent national survey, our updated careers page, some new and fabulous case studies -  AND we will be launching our brand new video!  We'd love you to register your interest by signing up for the event, but you can join right up until the event itself, via this link: Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting [...]

Winter webinar including talks on orthoptic selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) service organisation. Agenda for webinar: Christine Summers, Advanced Orthoptist / Lead for Glaucoma Evaluation Service: Anterior Chamber OCT Connor Beddow, Deputy Head Orthoptist, Honorary Lecturer: Stitched up! Considerations, timing and technique for post-op suture removal in glaucoma Ellisha Solanki, Specialist Orthoptist: Glaucoma Transition Clinic Hannah Harrison, Highly Specialist Orthoptist/ Lead of Glaucoma: Torbay Hospital’s Glaucoma Improvement Project Iulia Truscai, Advanced Orthoptist: Orthoptic SLT creation: engaging non medics in providing timely laser treatment to glaucomatous patients to reduce risk of progression

Vision Screening - Study Day 28.11.2024 Agenda 1.00 - 1.15 Welcome 1.15 - 1.45 Vision Screening Audit 2021-2022 - Miriam Conway 1.45 - 2.15 Validation of the accuracy and diagnostic outcomes from school vision screening in Ireland - Dr. Siofra Harrington 2.15 - 2.45 Setting up a vision screening service - Fiona Crotty 2.45 - 3.00 Coffee break 3.00 - 3.30 Updates in Primary Vision Screening - Fiona Bush 3.30 - 4.00 Research findings from Vision Screening in Scotland - Miriam Conway 4.00 - 4.15 Questions

Online forum for Orthoptic clinical tutors. Aim is to provide opportunity to discuss topics relevant to the provision of clinical placements for undergraduate and postgraduate orthoptic students. This forum will focus on giving an familiarising tutors with the new masters course at Liverpool university and provide. Please send any examples of poor professionalism you have encountered by students in the past to [email protected] (ensuring not to disclose the identity of anyone involved).     Agenda: 12:30-12:35- Introduction: Michael Harmsworth 12:35-12:45: Craig Murray-Overview of Liverpool MSc course 12:45-13:25 Open discussion amongst clinical tutors with opportunity to ask questions to university representative. 13:25-30: [...]

Come and join us for our EDI Virtual Coffee break on the 11th December. This is aimed to provide an informal drop-in environment for members to share any experiences they wish to, and thoughts or suggestions with each other and us, on how BIOS can develop our EDI support and signposting in this area. Grab a cuppa and log on!