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Volume 17 Number 1 / February 2013 with parents and caregivers, and enhanced ability to provide access to appropriate resources. Format: Panel discussion with moderator. Summary: We have a panel of 2 school nurses, an occupational therapist, a pediatric ophthalmologist with special interest in this topic area, and 2 orthoptists to discuss basic care types, access to care, what is needed by these children, how to coordinate care, when referrals are appropriate, what school resources are available, and much more.
125 Protecting your online image. K. David Epley, Andrew Doan Purpose/Relevance: The purpose of this workshop is to enable the attendee to understand and identify critical issues in building an online presence free of harmful information that can help build the providers practice and protect it against harmful or fraudulent claims. Target Audience: Pediatric ophthalmologists, practice administrators, anyone who does anything online. Current Practice: Many doctors and practices have a website, but few are actively managing their online persona and presence. Services like Yelp, Health Grades, AVVO, Health Tap, Facebook, Twitter and many more can help your practice or hurt it. Often the physician feels helpless to manage this aspect of practice, yet never has it been more important as a first impression to your new patients and in interaction with your current patients. Best Practice: Currently, physicians are not doing a good job, or in many cases, any job of monitoring their online reviews and reputation. This workshop will help the attendee to understand how online media can help build their practice and protect against bad reviews or negative comments. Participants will be taught how to edit their personas on the websites most commonly used by parents and patients. Strategies for protecting the participants online identity will be given. Expected Outcomes: Attendees will be able to immediately change how the person and the practice are perceived online, and how to build a positive presence. The participant will also have an armamentarium to combat negative reviews and help protect his or her online reputation. Format: Interactive didactic lecture with audience polling/quiz, presentation by experienced physicians who have successfully built online reputations. Sepcific examples will be used. Participants will be encouraged to bring their laptops/tablets to directly apply the didactic knowledge to better their own online image. Summary: Physicians are frequently reviewed at websites such as healthgrades.com, vitals.com, angieslist.com, avvo.com, facebook. com, twitter.com and many more. Most physicians are not doing enough to protect their online identity, some are doing nothing at all. Online media will be reviewed with emphasis on how to develop and uphold your online persona and how to protect your reputation.
126 Elder wise: Pearls from pediatric greats. K. David Epley, Alan B. Scott, Marilyn Miller, Eugene Helveston, John ONeill, William Scott Purpose/Relevance: Things we learn in residency and fellowship give us a foundation for practicing pediatric ophthalmology. But every good clinician and surgeon realizes that there are many things that go to making an oustanding physician. This workshop will assemble 5 oustanding pediatric ophthalmologists who are pioneers
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e35 in our field to discuss pearls of wisdom they have learned through years of practice. Target Audience: Pediatric ophthalmologists, history buffs, orthoptists, anyone who interacts with patients in a healthcare setting. Current Practice: Management of adult strabismus. Challenges in making the correct diagnosis with symptoms that dont fit the classic picture. Whats the best way to X? Best Practice: The panel presenters have over 150 years of combined experience in pediatric ophthalmology and Strabismus, from which they will present their best and hardest to acquire pearls of knowledge to help participants in their clinical and surgical practices. Expected Outcomes: Every physician who attends this workshop will leave with at least 10 pearls of wisdom to help in their medical and surgical practice. Format: Panel presentations and discussion with audience participation (ideally with polling). Summary: Five reknowned pediatric ophthalmologists will present pearls of wisdom in a variety of formats that will engage the audience as well as convey knowledge that otherwise takes years to acquire independently.
127 Simulated strabismus surgery—a practical and interactive demonstration of novel simulation techniques. John D. Ferris, Anthony J. Vivian Purpose/Relevance: To demonstrate how the safety of strabismus surgical training can be enhanced by the use of novel simulation techniques, using life-like silicone model eyes. Target Audience: Ophthalmologists involved with teaching strabismus surgery and surgical trainees. Current Practice: Patient safety should be our principle concern when teaching any form of surgery. However, very few training programs provide any form of strabismus surgery simulation. This means surgical trainees may not have developed core surgical skills, such as rectus muscle and scleral suturing techniques, before operating on patients. Best Practice: A simulation program, using life-like silicone eyes, to teach basic suturing techniques before moving on to performing recession / resection techniques, inferior oblique surgery and then the use of adjustable sutures. Trainees are required to have performed at least 5 complete rectus muscle procedures satisfactorily, before being allowed to operate on patients. Expected Outcomes: All delegates will be aware of the potential benefits of simulation training for patients, trainees and trainers and will have observed live demonstrations of rectus muscle and oblique muscle surgery on the model eyes. They will also have learnt how to incorporate surgical simulation into their training programs or practices. Format: Introductory lectures (40 minutes), live strabismus surgery demonstration, by leading surgeons from the USA and UK (20 minutes), Q&A session (15 minutes). Summary: This workshop will demonstrate how strabismus surgical simulation, using life-like model eyes, can enhance patient safety and the quality of surgical training. The combination of lectures, live surgical demonstrations, followed by a Q&A session, will we hope be conducive to an educational and interactive workshop.
125 Protecting your online image. K. David Epley, Andrew Doan Purpose/Relevance: The purpose of this workshop is to enable the attendee to understand and identify critical issues in building an online presence free of harmful information that can help build the providers practice and protect it against harmful or fraudulent claims. Target Audience: Pediatric ophthalmologists, practice administrators, anyone who does anything online. Current Practice: Many doctors and practices have a website, but few are actively managing their online persona and presence. Services like Yelp, Health Grades, AVVO, Health Tap, Facebook, Twitter and many more can help your practice or hurt it. Often the physician feels helpless to manage this aspect of practice, yet never has it been more important as a first impression to your new patients and in interaction with your current patients. Best Practice: Currently, physicians are not doing a good job, or in many cases, any job of monitoring their online reviews and reputation. This workshop will help the attendee to understand how online media can help build their practice and protect against bad reviews or negative comments. Participants will be taught how to edit their personas on the websites most commonly used by parents and patients. Strategies for protecting the participants online identity will be given. Expected Outcomes: Attendees will be able to immediately change how the person and the practice are perceived online, and how to build a positive presence. The participant will also have an armamentarium to combat negative reviews and help protect his or her online reputation. Format: Interactive didactic lecture with audience polling/quiz, presentation by experienced physicians who have successfully built online reputations. Sepcific examples will be used. Participants will be encouraged to bring their laptops/tablets to directly apply the didactic knowledge to better their own online image. Summary: Physicians are frequently reviewed at websites such as healthgrades.com, vitals.com, angieslist.com, avvo.com, facebook. com, twitter.com and many more. Most physicians are not doing enough to protect their online identity, some are doing nothing at all. Online media will be reviewed with emphasis on how to develop and uphold your online persona and how to protect your reputation.
126 Elder wise: Pearls from pediatric greats. K. David Epley, Alan B. Scott, Marilyn Miller, Eugene Helveston, John ONeill, William Scott Purpose/Relevance: Things we learn in residency and fellowship give us a foundation for practicing pediatric ophthalmology. But every good clinician and surgeon realizes that there are many things that go to making an oustanding physician. This workshop will assemble 5 oustanding pediatric ophthalmologists who are pioneers
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e35 in our field to discuss pearls of wisdom they have learned through years of practice. Target Audience: Pediatric ophthalmologists, history buffs, orthoptists, anyone who interacts with patients in a healthcare setting. Current Practice: Management of adult strabismus. Challenges in making the correct diagnosis with symptoms that dont fit the classic picture. Whats the best way to X? Best Practice: The panel presenters have over 150 years of combined experience in pediatric ophthalmology and Strabismus, from which they will present their best and hardest to acquire pearls of knowledge to help participants in their clinical and surgical practices. Expected Outcomes: Every physician who attends this workshop will leave with at least 10 pearls of wisdom to help in their medical and surgical practice. Format: Panel presentations and discussion with audience participation (ideally with polling). Summary: Five reknowned pediatric ophthalmologists will present pearls of wisdom in a variety of formats that will engage the audience as well as convey knowledge that otherwise takes years to acquire independently.
127 Simulated strabismus surgery—a practical and interactive demonstration of novel simulation techniques. John D. Ferris, Anthony J. Vivian Purpose/Relevance: To demonstrate how the safety of strabismus surgical training can be enhanced by the use of novel simulation techniques, using life-like silicone model eyes. Target Audience: Ophthalmologists involved with teaching strabismus surgery and surgical trainees. Current Practice: Patient safety should be our principle concern when teaching any form of surgery. However, very few training programs provide any form of strabismus surgery simulation. This means surgical trainees may not have developed core surgical skills, such as rectus muscle and scleral suturing techniques, before operating on patients. Best Practice: A simulation program, using life-like silicone eyes, to teach basic suturing techniques before moving on to performing recession / resection techniques, inferior oblique surgery and then the use of adjustable sutures. Trainees are required to have performed at least 5 complete rectus muscle procedures satisfactorily, before being allowed to operate on patients. Expected Outcomes: All delegates will be aware of the potential benefits of simulation training for patients, trainees and trainers and will have observed live demonstrations of rectus muscle and oblique muscle surgery on the model eyes. They will also have learnt how to incorporate surgical simulation into their training programs or practices. Format: Introductory lectures (40 minutes), live strabismus surgery demonstration, by leading surgeons from the USA and UK (20 minutes), Q&A session (15 minutes). Summary: This workshop will demonstrate how strabismus surgical simulation, using life-like model eyes, can enhance patient safety and the quality of surgical training. The combination of lectures, live surgical demonstrations, followed by a Q&A session, will we hope be conducive to an educational and interactive workshop.