Exploring clinical challenges and best practice, one article at a time.
In a profession as dynamic as ours, continuous learning and shared experience are the cornerstones of great patient care. This is your space for exactly that.
As a fellow optometrist, I write these articles to share real-world knowledge and practical perspectives on the challenges and opportunities we face every day. This isn’t just about textbook theory; it’s about providing actionable insights that can help you enhance your clinical examinations, refine your communication with patients, and look at complex situations with a fresh perspective.
Whether you’re looking to sharpen a specific skill, explore new ideas in practice management, or simply connect with content that understands your professional world, you’re in the right place.
Please, dive in and explore. I hope you find something that resonates, helps, or inspires.
Level Up Your Clinic
As conscientious healthcare professionals, we are always looking at ways that we can level up our clinics – be it providing outstanding service to our patients or wishing to make sure the clinic is financially viable. This selection of articles for optometrists look at doing just that!
Going the Extra Mile: Enhancing Your Optometric Practice
Transform your optometry practice with these practical tips. Elevate your patient care and communication to deliver exceptional eye examination experiences.
Enhancing Your Business Value as a Clinical Optometrist
Boost your conversion rates with these tips for optometrists. Enhance patient trust, offer thoughtful recommendations, and improve your dispensing value.
Using Patient Education Strategies to Empower Eye Health
Enhance your patient education skills with these strategies. Discover how to empower patients through effective communication, active participation, and cultural sensitivity.
Game Theory in Optometry: Level Up Your Clinic
Explore game theory in optometry. Learn how concepts like the Stag Hunt and the Prisoner’s Dilemma can help improve patient care and practice management.
Professionalism
Optometry is not just the role of eye tests and contact lens work – it is being a professional in all senses of the word and in all walks of life. This section provides articles for optometrists and eye care professionals that cover aspects of professionalism.
Explore the pros and cons of social media in optometry. Understand how to leverage it for networking, education, and career growth while avoiding potential pitfalls.
Learn about the “Duty of Candour” and its importance for optometrists. Understand the ethical obligation to be honest and transparent with patients when things go wrong.
Breaking Bad News: Tips for the Optometrist
Learn how to deliver bad news with empathy and confidence. This guide offers practical tips for optometrists to handle difficult conversations effectively.
Compassion for Patients: How Small Acts Make Big Differences
The way patients feel during an appointment stays with them long after they leave. Compassion for patients ensures that every interaction, whether routine or difficult, is handled with care. This article looks at ways you can deliver this compassion.
Receiving Valid Consent: Consent is Better Received than Taken
Receiving valid consent is essential in optometry, safeguarding both the patient’s rights and the practitioner’s professional integrity. In this article, I look at why consent is important why it is better to receive it than to take it.
Health and Wellbeing
As a provider of healthcare, our focus is generally on the patients we see and the businesses that we work for. However, our own health and wellbeing is important to take care of – and as such these articles for optometrists help with the art of putting your health first.
Mindfulness Matters: Navigating the Stresses of Optometric Life
Struggling with stress in optometry? Discover practical tips for managing stress and finding comfort in your role, from sleep to mindfulness and communication.
4 Limiting Beliefs Holding You Back from Your Full Potential
Discover common limiting beliefs in optometry and how overcoming them can help you become the best optometrist you can be, based on the experiences and insights of experienced optometrist, Jason Searle.
Ditch the Crab Bucket: Building a Supportive Eye Care Community
Why do we hold others back when they are about to succeed? Why do others hold us back when we are about to succeed? In this article I look at the fascinating phenomenon called The Crab Bucket Phenomenon – and how being aware of it can help us achieve a more supportive optometric community.
Knowledge Base
There are so many different aspects to optometry, dispensing and vision science and it is tough needing to be an expert on all subjects at all times. This section provides articles for optometrists and other eye care professionals that cover some of the basics.
The Eye Care Advocate: Skill Centre
One of our key features is the Skill Centre. This section aims to provide educational resources for students and pre-registration optometrists – with a clear challenge or goal to test the knowledge gained at the end. Whilst aimed at those in the learning phases of their career, qualified and experienced optometrists can use this to refresh their knowledge on the key concepts where required.
The Eye Care Advocate: History and Symptoms Study Guide
History and Symptoms is one of the core components of every eye examination and one, that as a locum, find many optometrists tend to lack providing – whether it be questions asked/obtained or just simply not recorded appropriately. This extensive guide aims to change that. Whilst aimed at students and pre-registration optometrists, it has a place on every optometrist’s book shelf. Check it out now!
I hope these articles for optometrists and other eye care professionals have been useful. If you have any topics you wish to The Eye Care Advocate to cover, please get in touch!
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