Forefront Therapeutic Refractive Surgery Course Overview

Therapeutic refractive surgery is the management of refractive complications and this course covers advanced topics in this area including diagnostics, treatment planning, treatment modalities, retreatment surgical techniques, and postoperative monitoring and management. The course includes didactic lectures and in-depth individual case studies. Attendance of the Forefront Refractive Surgery Course is a pre-requisite to attend the therapeutic course.

Accreditation

The Forefront Refractive Surgery Course: LASIK, Presbyopia Correction & SMILE, London, United Kingdom, November 2024 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 10.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s).

Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.

Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Saturday November 9, 2024, 9am-6pm

• Diagnostics: Topography and tomography
• Diagnostics: Aberrometry and quality of vision
• Diagnostics: Applications of epithelial thickness mapping
• Diagnostics: Anatomical cross-sectional imaging
• Topography-guided custom treatments
• Refraction planning for topography-guided treatments
• Trans-epithelial PTK treatments
• Wet PTK polishing

Sunday November 10, 2024, 9am-1pm

• Treatment options for ectasia
• Other therapeutic applications for PTK
• Advanced flap planning, surgical techniques and complications
• Discussion of audience therapeutic cases

Therapeutic Course (online only):

• Ophthalmologist £1,250
• Optometrist £600
• Trainee ophthalmologist £400