Welcome to eyeTRAIN!
eyeTRAIN brings together training institutions from across the globe, to showcase best practices and resources, through a series of competitions. This is an online conference held during 6-10 Dec 2021. We invite you to make submissions for these competitions.
Today several eye hospitals have their own training programmes for the AOP cadre. Often institutions face challenges such as:
- balancing time for patient care and training activities
- ensuring high quality outcomes while providing training opportunity
- ensuring skill transfer
- 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. We encourage you to share your work through these competitions:
Who can attend this conference?
eyeTRAIN online conference is for ophthalmologists, allied ophthalmic personnel, optometrists, technicians, ophthalmic nursing trainers, hospital managers and other cadres of eye care institutions who are involved in the training AOP staff.
The WHO Global Action Plan 2014-19 notes that “Allied Ophthalmic Personnel (AOP) comprise opticians, ophthalmic nurses, orthoptists, ophthalmic and optometric assistants, ophthalmic and optometric technicians, vision therapists, ocularists, ophthalmic photographers/ imagers, and ophthalmic administrators”
The Cambridge Declaration, in 2015, acknowledges the critical role of AOP in the delivery of high quality comprehensive eye services – and their role in achieving Universal Eye Health. But despite this, their development has often been neglected, with gaps in their skills and capacities, especially when compared with other cadres of eye health personnel.
Source: www.iapb.org/news/developing-competent-allied-ophthalmic-personnel/
Click here to view paper presentation abstracts
Theme 1: Teaching clinical topics to AOP trainees
Theme 2: Skill practice and assessment for AOP trainees
Theme 3: Imparting soft skills to AOP trainees
Theme 4: Creating effective AOP trainers
Theme 5: Keeping your AOP staff updated
Browse through innovative ideas for trainers in these submitted abstracts:
PAPER PRESENTATION COMPETITION:
Tell us how you ensure training effectiveness. Submit an abstract under one of the five themes
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?
Rules:
- Abstract submission by 19 November 2021
- Selected abstracts will be invited to present at the online conference
- More than one submission from an institution is allowed
- Submissions must be in English
- Top five paper presentations will be selected for prizes
Browse training videos – Skill Category:
Browse training videos – Knowledge Category:
VIDEO COMPETITION:
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
Categories:
- Skill-based topics
You can share any 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 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
Rules:
- Original videos for AOP trainees can be submitted.
- Videos with animations are also accepted
- Video format should be MP4
- The submission must be a complete video about a topic. It cannot be just a video clip
- Video submission: 19 November 2021
- Selected videos (or excerpts) will be screened during the online conference
- More than one submission from an institution is allowed
- Submissions only in English
- All submitted videos will be made available online for all conference participants
- “Best video” prize will be given under each category
Browse through Simulation models:
SIMULATION MODEL COMPETITION:
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.
Rules:
- Original videos of your simulation model for AOP trainees can be submitted.
- Video length should be within 7 minutes.
- Video format should be MP4
- The video must include:
- Name of the skill
- Show the model
- Things used / things needed
- Demonstration of a person using the model for skill practice
- Cost incurred
- Video submission: 19 November 2021
- Selected videos will be presented at the online conference
- More than one submission from an institution is allowed
- Submissions only in English
- All submitted videos will be made available online for all conference participants
- “Best simulation model” prize will be announced at the conference
Best practices in skill assessment – Dr. Karl Golink
Effective teaching techniques for the classroom – Dr. Pranesh
Innovation in Teaching & Training – Dr. Rajesh
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
| 4 – 5 PM IST Monday Dec 6 2021 |
WELCOME & CONFERENCE OVERVIEW SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS Unmasking the Maze of Neuro-ophthalmology for Optometry Students Dr Tulika Ghoshal, KPC Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata 3D Printing Ophthalmology Related Models For Enhancing Learning Dr Prasanna Venkatesh Ramesh, Mahathma Eye Hospital, Tiruchirappalli Evaluation of segregation of outpatient case sheets for faster disposal and patient management Krishnammal.N, Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli Flipped Classroom Model – An Effective Way to Teach AOP Renuka, Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore |
| 4 – 5 PM IST Tuesday Dec 7 2021 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Best practices in skill assessment DR KARL GOLNIK SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS Rubrics to evaluate PAL lenses measurement skill Jasmin Modi, Hari Jyot College Of Optometry, Navsari Keeping Counsellors Updated – empowering through attitudinal review, experiential reflection and refreshing knowledge Rajakumari, Aravind Eye Hospital, Coimbatore |
| 4 – 5 PM IST Wednesday Dec 8 2021 |
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS A training hub for AOP Renuga, Aravind Eye Hospital, Chennai Impact of competency based skill practice and assessment of AOP on a tertiary level hospital in North Bengal Dr Jinat Ferdousi, Deep Eye Care Foundation, Rangpur, Bangladesh Comparing effectiveness of traditional demonstration method and Video-assisted training method among AOP Stella Baby A, Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE): A pilot study to report optometry student’s experience. Vijay Kumar Yelagondula, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad Effective case segregation in paediatric OPD K.Poongothai, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai |
| 4 – 5 PM IST Thursday Dec 9 2021 |
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) – a novel assessment tool for Vision Center AOPs Dr. Aswin PR, Aravind Eye Care System Skill practice and assessment for Allied Ophthalmic Personnel in Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute Bongajum Abel Keelen, Magrabi ICO, Yaoundé, Cameroon Orthoptic training program at Aravind Eye Hospital R.Muthulakshmi, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai Innovative model for clinical teaching with emphasis on training of trainers Unnati Vaish, Sitapur Eye Hospital, Sitapur |
| 4 – 5.30 PM IST Friday Dec 10 2021 |
SPECIAL LECTURES: Effective teaching techniques for the classroom DR PRANESH BALASUBRAMANIAM Innovation in Teaching & Training DR RAJESH V ANNOUNCEMENT OF COMPETITION WINNERS AND SCREENING OF WINNING VIDEOS |
