The accredited Glaucoma Professional Education Programme is for New Zealand optometrists, nurses, orthoptists, ophthalmic technicians and other eye health professionals interested in furthering their understanding of glaucoma and its clinical management. Registered optometrists can earn GE and GPR credits as part of their ongoing professional registration requirements.

About the 2024 Programme

The programme provides an opportunity for eye health professionals to maintain their competence in diagnosing and treating glaucoma, assisting them in delivering the highest level of service and most up-to-date treatments available. The 2024 cases were compiled and prepared by Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer and Dr. Hannah Kersten.

Four cases contain a combination of patient history, clinical examination findings, optic nerve photographs, visual field test results, optical coherence tomography scans as appropriate, and any other relevant clinical information. There are 40 optic discs to grade.

You can complete the programme in any order.

We recommend you complete the programme using the same IP address as you use to register. If you have a failed attempt at registering, please use the forgotten password option as your IP address will be blocked if the system receives too many attempts. Let us know if this happens and our web developers can unblock it.

All resources to complete the programme are included.

If you are already registered, please use the ‘forgotten password’,

To claim ODOB CPD credits, download the certificate for each Case and the Optic Assessment once completed. The event number and accredited points is listed on the certificate. Case 1 – 60035  (2 GE points) , Case 2 – 60037 (2 GE points), Case 3 – 60036(2 GE points), Case 4 – 60042 (2 GE points)

Glaucoma peer review sessions facilitated by a glaucoma specialist are offered as part of the registration package. If you would like to book at peer review session separately to the programme these are available at $50.00. There are two dates available. Please contact us to book your peer session as soon as possible at info@glaucoma.org.nz

Register for the 2024 programme
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