2005 MEETINGS

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  25-26 June 2005

An Advanced CE program, sponsored by a special educational grant from Bausch & Lomb, was held in India at the Elite School of Optometry, Chennai on 25-26 June, providing 18 hours of education to 28 participants.

The program included lectures, w orkshops and video presentations covering SCL fitting, Toric SCL Fitting, Care and Maintenance, Complications, Wear Modality and Lens Replacement, CL options for Presbyopia and for Continuous Wear, as well as Practice Management and Communication. On conclusion, 88% of the participants agreed that they would be more skilled at fitting CLs and would dispense more CL products based on what they had learned.

 

IACLE Educators Meetings were held in Colombia on 2-3 June, and Mexico on 23-24 June reaching 60 educators. The programs included Anatomy and Physiology, Slit Lamp Illumination Techniques, Corneal Oxygenation and CL, Complications during CL Wear, and a Leadership Workshop. Meeting attendees shared information about their schools and CL curricula, and reported on the usefulness of the IACLE CL Course for their teaching and lecture development.

Comments received from meeting attendees:

- ‘The most significant issue to learn was the different teaching techniques, in topics really hard to teach in an easy, friendly and simple, but effective way.’

- ‘The lecture on complications was excellent. The standardization of concepts and how to teach the different complications that can arise with the use of CLs was an excellent exercise for all.’

- ‘ The interaction between different schools was good for our profession. The exchange of ideas and the interaction of the meeting were quite important. This type of meeting motivates educators to improve our teaching and knowledge.’

- ‘The impact of IACLE in Latin America is amazing; the mission of educating educators, fantastic. It was a privilege to have such a prestigious organization conducting this meeting.’

The Latin America Regional Coordinator, Percy Lazon, also visited several schools in both Colombia and Mexico. The Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mexico) is in the process of updating their Optometry Program and estimates that 90% of their course modifications will be based on the IACLE CL Course. Once the new program is implemented, and with educators also promoting the IACLE CL Course to their students as a textbook, IACLE would be able to measure the impact of these changes through the STE.

 2-5 June 2005

Two IACLE members from Europe, Wim Borst (Netherlands) and Javier Gonzalez-Perez (Spain), were invited to attend this year's Association of Optometric Contact Lens Educators (AOCLE) Annual Workshop that was held in Michigan College of Optometry from 2-5 June.

Javier reported attending a lecture on 'Promoting Deep Learning in College Students', and stressed the lecturer's point of view regarding the need to improve teaching methods with the objective to increase students' learning and knowledge retention.

One of the most important highlights from the AOCLE workshop was reported to be the experience of seeing what happens when a group [such as AOCLE] works as a family; how the results are obviously better; seeing the high teaching quality and research; as well as these being more easily attainable through working together as an Association. IACLE would like to express appreciation to AOCLE and is proud to continue our collaboration in furthering contact lens education.

  2 June 2005

The Annual IACLE Europe Update Meeting was held in conjunction with the annual BCLA meeting in Brighton in June. IACLE also participated in the recent ECLSO meeting in the UK, exhibiting educational information that included the IACLE CL Course Modules

  13-15 May 2005

IACLE participated in the ECOO/AUESCO meeting in Krakow, Poland in May . The goal of the meeting was to further discussion and implementation of the European Diploma in Optometry and to harmonise the standard of optometric education and practice in Europe. IACLE is pleased to continue collaboration with these organizations and looks forward to becoming a member of ECOO and assisting in the development of their CL curriculum. ECOO and AUESCO were each presented with a free IACLE CL Course set during the meeting.

  27-28 March 2005

An IACLE India Educators’ Meeting was held on 27-28 March 2005 in Pune, India delivering 12 hours of education to 27 participants.

The meeting opened with Amod Gogate welcoming all attendees to Bharati Vidyapeeth University and IACLE Regional Coordinator, Lakshmi Shinde providing an update on IACLE Global and Regional activities. This was followed by lectures and workshops on Corneal Oxygenation with CL, CL fitting in Keratoconus, Silicone Hydrogels, Conducting Practical examinations, Presentation Topics, a meeting discussion forum, FIACLE presentations and the distribution of various resources to members for their Resource Centers.

Meeting Survey results reported 94% participants stating the lecture topics were relevant to their teaching and clinical needs, with all agreeing the information presented would be useful to them in their teaching.

Letter received from IACLE India Member, Pravin Tellakula, following the meeting:

“IACLE members meet was excellent. The topics covered were very useful and informative. It was also presented very well by the speakers and lot of interaction and participation was present.

The discussions helped in exchanging views and learning a lot of new things - e.g., 'parking the lens' was news to me. Probably if it works well I would like to treat presbyopia with near and distance Rx being switched in the eye - park one and use one!

The talk on Communication Skills was also very good. Amod's excellent efforts in organising the place and his hospitality needs to be recognised. I enjoyed being at BVP. Looking forward to the next meeting “

Two school visits, i.e. to Bharati Vidyapeeth & Jnana Probhodhini Medical Trust were also conducted.

  14 January 2005

The Third Annual IACLE Netherlands meeting was held on 14 January 2005 at Deltion College facilitated by Wim Borst and Ron de Lau.

As well as presenting information on IACLE activities and programs, the program also covered topics such as grading scales, fitting RGPs and soft lenses, Ortho K, corneal topography, competency based examinations, and the contact lens market which was presented by IACLE Industry Sponsor Linda van der Jeught (CIBA Vision).

Previous Meeting Reports - 2003

India Special Symposium: Advance Contact Lens Education Program - August 2003

IACLE Philippines Industry Practitioner Program Program - March 2003

Previous Meeting Reports - 2001

Intensive Training Program In China - November 2001

IACLE India Educator Meeting - October 2001

Industry Meeting held at BCLA Meeting in Brighton, UK - May 2001

IACLE Educators and Industry Meetings held in Shanghai, China and Taipei, Taiwan - June 2001

Feedback from the Educators Meeting in New Delhi, India - April 2001

National Educators Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - April 2001

National Educators Meeting in New Delhi, India - April 2001

Egypt Trip Report - 2001

Continuing Education in Latin America - 2001

Previous Meeting Reports - 2000

Meeting of the European Educators - October 2000

World Congress 2000 The Report - PDF 1800KB