Learn About Eyes/Clinical Skills in Glaucoma

  • CHF250

Clinical Skills in Glaucoma

  • Course
  • 37 Lessons

Learn how to diagnose, stage, document, monitor, and treat glaucoma patients with more confidence in real clinic situations. Stop piecing glaucoma management together from scattered lectures, random notes, and years of trial and error. This course gives you a practical system you can actually use in clinic.

Who is this course for?

This course is for you if you are:

  • a resident who feels that glaucoma clinic decision-making still feels fragmented,

  • an ophthalmology trainee who wants a practical framework rather than textbook overload,

  • a junior eye doctor who wants to stage, document, and treat glaucoma patients more confidently,

  • or a clinician who wants to stop second-guessing progression, staging, and treatment choices.

This course is probably not for you if

  • you are looking for a highly academic research review,

  • you already feel fully confident managing glaucoma independently,

  • or you want a general ophthalmology survey rather than a focused glaucoma system.

After this course

You will be able to

  • Recognize whether a patient truly has glaucoma or not

  • Distinguish the main glaucoma types with more confidence

  • Stage disease severity and use that staging in treatment decisions

  • Spot progression in OCT, visual fields, and optic nerve assessment

  • Interpret IOP in the right clinical context

  • Understand the treatment ladder from medication to laser to surgery

  • Document glaucoma patients in a clean, reusable framework

Contents

Intro

WELCOME! Welcome to my online course on the clinical basics of Glaucoma.

Watch the video to find out how this course is structured.

Introduction Video
Preview

Document like Ike Ahmed

Learn how Ike Ahmed summarizes every Glaucoma patient in just one line.

I use this documentation format in my clinic for EVERY SINGLE VISIT. It helps me to never forget anything important. And when reviewing the file I can understand a whole complex Glaucoma history in a matter of seconds.

The Ike Ahmed Documentation format

Is it Glaucoma?

Before we dive into how to classify, stage and treat Glaucoma, we first need to diagnose it correctly.

In This chapter, you'll learn what to look for to diagnose Glaucoma.

Intro: Is it Glaucoma?
CDR
Download CDR reference
Rim
ISNT
Alpha- / Beta zone
Disc size
BMO is not exactly the disc size
RNFL

Type of Glaucoma

Because the treatment of Glaucoma largely depends on the type it is extremely important to be able to distinguish between the different types. Especially between closed and open angle Glaucoma.

In this chapter you get a nice overview over the types of Glaucoma and we dive deep into open versus closed angle with gonioscopy and ASOCT

Intro: Type of Glaucoma
Closed angles
Open angles
Gonioscopy
Link to the gonioscopy book
Angle grading systems
Gonioscopy in open angles
ASOCT and UBM
Anterior segment examination

Staging

It is very important to always be aware what stage of Glaucoma your patient is in.

The stage largely influences how aggressive you will be with your treatment.

Staging
Download Staging table overview

Progression

In this chapter you'll learn that progression is THE KEY to Glaucoma treatment.

Learn how to spot progression in the optic nerve, OCT and visual field

Intro: Progression
Optic nerve
OCT
Visual field

IOP

Learn the different ways to measure IOP and how to interpret them

IOP
GAT (Goldmann Applanation Tonometry)

Treatment

Learn how to treat Glaucoma.

Get a great overview of medication, lasers and different surgical techniques to treat Glaucoma.

Intro: Treatment
Medication
Download overview of all the Medication classes
Download Checklist Medical Therapy
AC Paracentesis / AC Tap to reduce IOP
Laser
Surgery
Download Glaucoma Surgeries Overview

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FAQ section

Frequently asked questions

Do I get lifetime access to this course

Yes. If you are paying for the course, it is yours forever. Even if I switch over to a different hosting platform, I'll take your account with me. You might need to sign up again but you will not pay again.

How long does it take me to finish the course

The course is divided up into multiple short videos. The full course will take about 2-3 hours to finish.

What knowledge do I need to already have

This is a clinical skills course. You should already know what Glaucoma is have read the chapter on Glaucoma in a textbook. This course is giving you frameworks to save you time and be better in your every day clinic.

Is this course suitable for Optometrists?

YES. It's not only for Ophthalmologists. Optometrists can very well benefit from this content because it contains frameworks and schematics that you need in your everyday clinic.

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