Fabrizio Zeri, Frank Eperjesi, Craig Woods, Stefan Bandlitz, Ajay Kumar Bhootra, Mahesh R Joshi, Manbir Nagra, Helmer Schweizer, Shehzad A Naroo
INTRODUCTION: Contact lens (CL) practice is an ever-changing field with clinical knowledge, techniques and equipment continuously evolving. These new developments are backed with clinical trials and research to ensure that practitioners feel confident that there is an evidence base to support these advances. Evidence-based practice is now a crucial part of CL practice, and its importance also filters down to CL education. For example, lectures are one of the most popular tools for an educator but, is standing at the front of a lecture theatre full of students a more effective way of teaching than providing the same material for students to read by themselves? What evidence exists specific to CL education? METHOD: An expert panel of educators completed a comprehensive literature review of current evidence of teaching methods in CL training, or if not available then what can be learnt from other health care professional training that could be potentially applicable to CL education...
February 15, 2023: Contact Lens & Anterior Eye: the Journal of the British Contact Lens Association