Course Handouts

Course handouts are organized below alphabetically by course title, grouped by day and track. If the document you are looking for is not present (linkable), please check back as new titles are arriving daily.

Illinois Required Orals Course materials will be distributed on-site.

Thursday, May 8, 2008, OD Track

• Aberrometry in the Consulting Room 
• An Expanded Look at Red Eye 
• Chronic Ocular Inflammation II 
• Corneal Dystrophies and Degenerations: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Differentiation in Today's Modern Optometric Practice
• Expert Consensus in the Management of Dry Eye
• Fatal Genetic Disorders You Help Can Diagnose 
• Gaining Greater Efficiency and Profitability in Your Practice Through the Use of Automated Refraction 
• Glaucoma Pharamcology A-Z 
• Guess What I Saw?
• Jump Start Your Glaucoma Practice 
• New Therapeutics That Will Affect the Practice Act
• Optimizing Office Efficiency
• Overview of Retinal Vascular Disease 
• Pregnancy and the Eye 
• Sports Injuries 
• What's Eating You? Diagnosis and Treatment of Corneal Ulcers
• What's New in Cornea

Thursday, May 8, 2008, Para Track

• 5th Pair Sales 
• AR-It's What You Don't See That Makes a Difference
• Are We Having Fun Yet? 
• A Technicians's Role in the InfantSEE™ Exam
• Communications Skills for Today's Paraoptometric
• Contact Lens Options for the Non-Traditional Patient 
• Freeform Technology 
• Life in the Espresso Lane 
• Managing the Red Carpet 
• Occupational Lenses 
• Sales Techniques and Merchandising Strategies that Increase Patient Satisfaction and Your Bottom Line
• What Does Refreaction Mean?

Friday, May 9, 2008, OD Track

• Can We Do Better in AMD? 
• Contact Lens Wear and Ocular Allergy 
• He Said, She Said 
• Hypertension, Retinopathy and Stroke 
• Lens Surgery for the Correction of Refractive Errors
  • Incorporating Presbyopia 
  • Verisyse Phakic IOL
• Managing the Patient with Facial or Orbital Trauma 
• Neuro 101 
• New Approaches to Management of Marginal Lid Disease 
• New Pharmaceuticals in Clinical Practice 
• Ocular Tumor Update 
  • Intraocular Tumor
• The Optic Disc in Glaucoma 
• OTC or RX: When is a Prescription Necessary?
• Paper to Paperless...Transitioning to EHR 
• Pharmaceutical Clinical Pearls 
• Prescribing Oral Steroids 
• The Role of Multi-Purpose Solutions in Contact Lens Disinfection 
• Rosacea Review 
• Structure and Function in Glaucoma 
• What's New in Glaucoma

Friday, May 9, 2008, Para Track

• Bifocal Conversion — Science Dispels a Myth
• The Big Benefits of Package Pricing 
• Creating a Dynamic Dispensary 
• Creating Special Events to Grow Your Business 
• Diabetes and the Eyes 
• Emergency 911 
• Interview Your Patients Like Oprah 
• The Latest and Greatest of Frame Designs and Fashions
• My Top Ten Dispensing Tips
• Ocular Odyssey: The Eyelashes and Beyond 
• Optometry and MS 
• Patience with Patients
• Pre-Testing: How is it Done? 
• Surgical Management

Saturday, May 10, 2008, OD Track

• A Battle Plan to Defeat the Allergy Attack
• Case Challenges in Posterior Segment Diseases
• Clinical Applications of Posterior Segment Imaging
• Common Rigid and Soft Contact Lens Complications 
• Complex Corneal Grand Rounds 
• Diagnosis of Strabismus and Amblyopia in the Primary Care Setting
• Demystifying Lid Lesions
• Keratoconus Diagnosis and Management 
• Off Label Use of Medications
• Oral Medications and the Eye 
• The Other Glaucomas 
• Pediatric Pharamacology and Pathology
• Recognizing Signs of Retinal Disease
• Rigid Toric Contact Lenses Made Easy 
• Rigid Bifocal Contact Lens Fitting 

Saturday, May 10, 2008, Para Track

• Basic Coding: What You Need to Know
  • Basic Coding Companion Documents 
• Checklist for Managing and Avoiding Eyewear Remakes
• Customer Service 101 
• Fitting the Generations 
• Frames vs. Bevels 
• Hands-On Dispensing 
• It's a Wrap 
• Meeting Patients' Needs
• Ocular Anatomy
• The Solution May Be the Solution 
• Survivor: The Medicare Jungle
• What it Takes to Master Win/Win Dispensing
• What's New and What' Not PQRI