Description

This course allows providers to gain additional knowledge and skill surrounding ophthalmologic evaluation and slit lamp techniques. This involves a virtual didactic lecture and quiz as well as hands-on slit lamp instruction.

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Objectives 

• Recognize indications for slit lamp examination by the end of the course.  

• Identify ophthalmologic emergencies by the end of the course. 

• Demonstrate slit lamp examination techniques by the end of the course. 

 

Get Involved

***Virtual didactic instruction and quiz must be completed prior to coming to your hands-on session*** 

 

Facilitator

Dr. Austin Gerber – Ophthalmoplastic Surgeon 

 

Participants

Physicians & APPs 

 

Schedule 

Dates: April 13th

Time: 5:30-7:30pm (please sign up for a 30-minute block for hands-on instruction)

Available time blocks on each day: 5:30-6pm, 6-6:30pm, 6:30-7pm, 7-7:30pm instructed by Dr. Gerber.

 

30 minutes of hands-on instruction with the slit lamp and practicing exam on standardized patient  

Austin Gerber, M.D. is a consultant and on the speaker’s bureau for Horizon Therapeutics. This has been mitigated. No one else involved in the educational content of this activity has any relevant financial interest with an ACCME-defined ineligible company. 

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• The Fort Wayne Medical Education Program is accredited by the Indiana State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  

• The Fort Wayne Medical Education Program designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.