Masterclass in Oculoplastic, Lacrimal and Orbital Diseases

Oculoplastics, Lacrimal and Orbital Ophthalmology is a subspeciality of Ophthalmology that deals with important structures that support the continued functioning, health and comfort of the ocular globe.

Oculoplastics pertains to diseases of the eyelid and conjunctiva including malignancies. Lacrimal encompasses diseases of the lacrimal drainage apparatus. Orbital Ophthalmology covers diseases of the orbital bones or orbital contents.

In this course you will learn about the presentation, diagnosis, and management of oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital diseases.

This course is run jointly by the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital

This course is ideal for for the following professionals who are interested in clinical ocular oncology:

• ophthalmologists
• resident doctors
• physicians
• general practitioners
• medical students
• optometrists
• orthoptists
• ophthalmic nurses
• vision scientists

1. Understand examination and diagnostic techniques in oculoplastic, lacrimal and orbital diseases.
2. Eyelid Malpositions: ptosis, ectropion, entropion, facial palsy
3. Eyelid oncology: benign lumps and bumps, eyelid lesion excision, eyelid reconstruction
4. Trauma: eyelid trauma, retrobulbar haemorhage/orbital compartment syndrom, orbital Trauma
5. Sockets: evisceration, enucleation
6. Orbital disease: orbital assessment and signs, thyroid eye disease, orbital inflammation
7. Lacrimal anatomy, physiology, pathology, investigations and management

There will be a multiple-choice quiz with 20 questions at the end of the course.

A certificate of completion will issued on completion of the multiple choice quiz and course feedback form.

Ophthalmologists are eligible for self-certification of CPD points at 1 point/hour in their portfolio.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomy of the eyelid.
• Analyse the anatomy, causes, history, examination, and management options in a patient with ptosis, entropion, ectropion, or facial palsy.

• Take a history of, examine, and diagnose periocular lesions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the methods for eyelid lesion excision and reconstruction following tumor excision.

• Recognise the indications for, risks, and surgical steps for an evisceration and an enucleation.

• Repair a full thickness eyelid laceration and a canalicular laceration.
• Recognise and treat a patient with a retrobulbar haemorrhage or orbital trauma.

• Recall the pathophysiology, examination, investigation, severity grading and management of thyroid eye disease.
• Recognise the presenting features of orbital inflammatory disease.
• Differentiate the classes of Disease Modifying Anti Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDS) and required screening tests.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the latest management of prednisolone related osteoporosis and gastritis.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the management of granulomatous polyangiitis, sarcoidosis, IgG4, Idiopathic orbital inflammation and orbital myositis.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the anatomy and physiology of tear production and tear drainage, causes of as watering eye, examination, investigations and treatment of a watery eye.

The standard course fee is £1950.