Maintaining and improving your professional skills and knowledge is essential for providing high quality care for patients and raising professional standards.
Use our online resources and materials to support your continuing professional development and earn essential CPD points.
We have a blended programme of online and in-person events to help you develop your clinical and professional knowledge, and gain interactive CPD points.
Acuity is available in printed and digital formats. It's packed with news and analysis and includes online CPD articles to help you stay ahead in your career.
OiP is our Continuing Professional Development journal. Complete multiple choice quizzes to gain non-interactive CPD points.
MODULE 8: This online CPD course demonstrates how to find relevant clinical research using the correct search methods and explains when these methods could be applied in your own clinical practice.
MODULE 7: This online CPD course explains the importance of research in healthcare and how research findings can be used to enhance your clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.
MODULE 6: This online CPD course details the meaning of statistical significance and how this relates to clinical significance in practice.
MODULE 5: This online CPD course explores the use of statistical tests in hypothesis testing and when to use specific tests to analyse different data types.
MODULE 4: This online CPD course introduces the different types of data found in research studies and how they can be used alongside statistical analyses to understand and interpret the world around us.
MODULE 3: This online CPD course will help you evaluate methodological quality and determine whether a research study is relevant to you.
MODULE 2: This online CPD course will help you understand research evidence, understand the peer-review process, and identify discipline-specific journals.
MODULE 1: This online CPD course helps you identify the difference between research, audit, and service evaluation, describe the main stages of the research process, and understand the importance of the ethical review process.
A clinical audit is a simple process that enables you to assess how you and your practice are performing against standards and identify ways to improve efficiency, patient care, service, and quality in your practice.
In this webinar, the College’s Clinical Advisers discuss the key amendments to the Guidance for Professional Practice.
Dr Simon Frackiewicz MCOptom covers some practical advice for optometrists to help regain confidence in binocular vision, which may have been affected by the altered ways of working during the pandemic.
In this online CPD course, Thurka Sivapalan MCOptom covers the basic principles of OCT to help diagnose, monitor, and manage glaucoma-related conditions in community practice and in hospitals.