Education

CET has changed to CPD from 1st January 2022

The GOC has replaced the old CET (Continuing Education & Training ) programme with a new scheme called CPD (Continuing Professional Development ) from 1st January 2022.

Please refer to the guide for registrants.

All those on our database will receive invitations to register for future events.

Please read our Zoom CET event guide before attending one of our online events.

We’ve also put together a list below of providers of online CPD. As far as we’re aware, all of this CPD is being supplied free of charge.

• Heidelberg Academy has lots of online education resources, including some CPD-accredited webinars. Registration required
• Optegra have a CPD portal with several events listed
• Scope Eyecare have a number of CPD-accredited webinars
• SpaMedica hold regular online CPD events
• CooperVision Academy offer free online CPD. Registration required
• All of DOCET‘s materials are freely available to fully qualified GOC registered optometrists
• AOP members can access free of charge CPD, including via Optometry Today
• COptom members can access free of charge CPD
• ABDO members can access free of charge CPD
• J&J offer free online CPD. Registration required
• Essilor offer free online CPD. Registration required
• WOPEC has a number of courses available, with several CPD modules  approved for both optometrists and dispensing opticians. Each course needs a separate access code, which you can request from by contacting your LOC secretary.

Our face-to-face CPD events (when we run them) are open to those based in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, and invitations are emailed to all who have supplied their address.

To register to attend, contact the secretary.

Start times: Unless otherwise stated, our CPD events commence with hot food from 6.15pm, and lectures from 7.00pm.

Details of the venues are available from the hospital websites. We mainly use either the University of Buckingham Academic Centre at Milton Keynes University Hospital (near bottom left on the map) or the Post Graduate Education Centre (PGEC, near top left on the map) at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Parking at Stoke Mandeville PGEC is pay-and-display, and at MKUH multi-storey it’s pay-on-exit.

If other venues are used, details will be sent out with the invitation to the CPD event.

To be sure of receiving your invitations to future events, please send your email address to the LOC secretary.

 Our peer review groups have been suspended at present.