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This course expired on 30 September 2025. If you have completed this course, you can print your certificate here. 

This course has been replaced with our Anterior Eye: Part 3 - Various disorders course, reissued in October 2025.



Domains: Clinical practice, Communication, Specialty CPD (IP)

CPD Ref: C-102248

CPD Points:  

CPD Type: Non-interactive

Closing Date: 30 September 2025


The Anterior Eye module has been designed to support optometrists and IP practitioners in the diagnosis and management of patients presenting with chronic or non-sight threatening anterior eye conditions. 

Videos, images and detailed references provide wide-ranging information on eyelid, conjunctival, tear film, scleral and corneal disorders and foreign bodies.

Each condition is covered in six sections: presenting symptoms, what to look for (appropriate examinations and investigations), differential diagnosis, management (for standard optometrists), further clinical management (either for IP optometrists, GPs or ophthalmologists) and references.

The user-friendly, topic-specific virtual folders are a useful resource for day-to-day practice as well as a valuable foundation towards a MECS qualification. 

To gain CPD points the material has been divided in three sections covering various anterior eye conditions respectively.

For non-interactive CPD on various disorders including tear film, scleral, corneal disorders and foreign bodies, please ensure that you have looked at the following conditions:  Dry eye, episcleritis, foreign bodies, corneal abrasions and recurrent corneal erosions.

See also:  Anterior Eye: Conjunctival Disorders and Anterior Eye: Eyelid Disorders.

First published: June 2017
Last reviewed: April 2022

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    Clinical Practice

    s.7 Conduct appropriate assessments, examinations, treatments and referrals

    • Able to investigate and make a differential diagnosis for patients presenting with external eye disorders such as corneal conditions, episcleritis and dry eye.

    s.6 Recognise and work within your limits of competence

    • Understand the management and treatments for various external eye conditions that can be carried out in community practice and when patients require referring for specialist management.

    Communication

    s.2 Communicate effectively with patients

    • Able to take a relevant history and symptoms for a patient presenting with various anterior eye disorders.

    IP Competency

    Specialty CPD

    • Understand the current options of treatment available to IP optometrists to manage various external eye conditions. 

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