Laurence Derbyshire

Newly-qualified optometrist, Eliza Jane McCall, has spoken to OT about her recent experience of the Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), sharing her advice and tips. McCall sat and passed the OCSEs in July as the final step in her Scheme for Registration journey to qualification after sharing her pre-registration journey through OT. Discussing her experience of the final practical exam, McCall described: “You’ve got five minute stations, and you have to walk in, complete a task.

The importance of having formal internal systems in place to ensure there is clear responsibility for care through the patient journey has been highlighted by the AOP’s head of clinical and regulatory, Henry Leonard.

It can at times be difficult to decide when a case is a safeguarding concern, acknowledged the AOP’s head of clinical and regulatory, Henry Leonard, when speaking at the AOP’s Locum Clinical Skills Conference in Birmingham in March.