From exam season to business meetings

Summer exam season is now over. A big thank you to our examiners and the ABDO exams team, who led the dispensing and contact lens assessments over the past six weeks. Congratulations to all the students who sat their Preliminary Qualifying Exams, Final Qualifying Exams and contact lens exams at the NRC. All your hard work has got you to this point.

Candidates now await their results which will be released in the coming weeks. A big thank you also to all our patients, an essential part of the exam experience during this time.

Coming up

We are excited to be hosting staff members from Wales Optometry Postgraduate Education Centre for a one-day event next week, as well as hosting a number of meetings for the ABDO Board, ABDO trustees and external companies.

We will be hosting another set of exams, for the Professional Certificate in Paediatric Eyecare,  over two days at the end of July. Led by Dr Alicia Thompson, ABDO’s research director, it’s a post-graduate course for qualified optometrists, contact lens opticians and dispensing opticians. Practitioners develop advanced skills and knowledge in different aspects of paediatric eyecare, including myopia management. For more details about the course, see Professional Certificate.