National Glaucoma Society: Conferences

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Marriott Fairview Park

3111 Fairview Park Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042
Phone: 703-849-9400
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March 14, 2010 - Falls Church, VA

Join us in the Washington, DC area for 8 hours of COPE and Florida approved CE. Options include a full-day of lectures or lectures plus an interactive workshop on practicing medical optometry. Two hours of Florida TQ also available (additional fee applies). Speakers include Dr. Elliot Kirstein, Dr. Bud O'Leary, Dr. Eric Schmidt, and Dr. Jim Thimons.

The morning program offers 4 hours of lectures: 2 hours in Glaucoma and 2 hours in Oral Pharmacology.

In the afternoon, there are two options. One option is 4 hours of lectures. The other option is an interactive workshop on strategies, protocols and reimbursement for practicing medical optometry plus a two hour lecture with cases illustrating the practice of full scope optometry. Space in the workshop will be limited to enable in-depth and interactive discussion. Registration in the workshop is now closed.

Please note: Daylight Savings Time starts March 14. Be sure to set your clocks forward one hour on Saturday, March 13!

Early Bird rates available through March 4, 2010. For registrations received on or after March 5, 2010, add $40 for a full-day registration and $20 for a half-day registration. Space at the program is limited. We cannot guarantee availability of walk-in registration.

Conference registration is closed.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

8:00am–8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am–10:15am

Management of Ocular Pain

J. James Thimons, OD, FAAO

COPE # 24429-OP

10:30am–12:15pm

Early Detection of Glaucoma: Clinical Clues

Eric Schmidt, OD

COPE # 24477-GL (Florida TQ approved)

12:15pm–1:15pm

Lunch (provided)

1:15pm–3:00pm

Evaluation of the Optic Nerve

Elliot Kirstein, OD

COPE # 20105-GL

1:15pm–3:00pm

Practicing Medical Optometry Workshop: Cases, Cautions and Coding

Bud O'Leary, OD, J. James Thimons, OD, FAAO

Strategies, Protocols and Reimbursement: In-depth and interactive discussion led by two ODs in practice more than 30 years (COPE # 26946-GO)

3:15pm–5:00pm

Practicing Full Scope Optometry: Challenging Cases from Private Practice

Eric Schmidt, OD

COPE # 21022-SD

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News

Membership Changes

Yearly memberships are no longer going to be a requirement for NGS. We will continue to offer Webinars on a regular basis, on a pay as you register event. Current active memberships will be honored until they expire. Thank you for your continued support.

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NGS webinars will take place twice a month in March to May, 2023, followed by a break from the webinars over the summer.

NEW HAMPSHIRE INDICATES LIVE WEBINARS = FORMAL CE

The New Hampshire Board of Optometry announced in August 2022 that courses approved by COPE are automatically approved as Class I Formal CE. In addition, they clarified that live webcasts with real-time active participation by attendees are Formal CE, the same as in-person programs. In contrast, Alternative CE refers to lectures that are not live. More details are on the NH Board of Optometry website under Laws and Rules, Standing Orders.

COPE RULES FOR INTERACTIVE WEBINARS 2023

As of January 2023, COPE will include interactive webinars in the same category as in-person lectures, with no post-test required. CE will be categorized as either Synchronous (lecturer and learner are together at the same time, either in-person or virtually, with real-time communication) or Asynchronous (lecturer and learner are not together at same time, no real-time communication). Interactive webinars will be labeled Synchronous Virtual CE for courses and activities submitted after January 1 (interactive webinars approved before January 1 may still be labeled Online Interactive courses or Interactive Distance Learning events). Please Note: State Boards may restrict the number of Synchronous Virtual hours of CE allowed for license renewal; check with your State Board for the latest regulations.

LIVE WEBINARS = LIVE CE IN MASSACHUSETTS

At their December 15, 2021 meeting, the Massachusetts Board of Optometry specified that a live webinar where speakers and attendees can interact in real-time are considered to be live CE. The Board clarified that distance learning CE courses, which are limited to 6 hours per renewal cycle, are those where the licensees are reading content or observing media on their own with no interaction with the instructor. Thus, the COPE-approved interactive NGS webinars count as live CE for MA optometrists.

CE BROKER FOR TEXAS OPTOMETRISTS

The NGS will submit attendance data to CE Broker for Texas optometrists who attend our webinars. We will continue to mail CE certificates so attendees have a copy for their records and also will send attendance data to ARBO's OE Tracker.

PENNSYLVANIA CE REGULATIONS

The Pennsylvaia Board of Optometry will allow all CE to be online for the renewal period that ends November 30, 2022. Starting December 1, 2022, revised regulations allow for up to 50% of the CE requirements (15 out of 30 ours) to be online.

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