Jun 12, 2010

Primary eye care course 2010 part 1














Report for the Primary eye care course 2010

The primary eye care course had been completed succesfully from the 24th to 26th of May 2010. The objectives of this course is to assist and help primary eye carer in their daily practice and referral .

Among the objectives:

1. Continuous Medical Educations

2. Improve the knowledge in primary eye care among the primary care personels

3. Training of the use of slitlamp and diagnosis of cataract to facilitate the running of the cataract campaign

4. Intoduction of the registry like Diabetic eye registry, Blind registry

5. Prevention of blindness

There were 52 participants which include 8 doctors and 44 paramediks coming from all the peripheral clinics in the northern zone of Sarawak includes Lawas, Limbang, Miri, Marudi and even Bintulu. It was officially opened by Dr Jamil Omar whom was the acting hospital director during that moment. He is also the Medical Advisory Committee chairman of Hospital Miri since 2009.

We are honoured to have speaker from Sarawak General Hospital Dr Mohd Aziz Salowi, who is the Sarawak National eye Database coordinator.The course is organized with the funds contributed from the unit latihan hospital Miri and also morning tea sponsored by the Sarawak Society for the blind (SSB). SSB also sponsored the traveling and expenses of the visiting speaker. We also obtained great support from the leading intraocular lens company AMO for the Goodies and vision taking occluders. Last but not least Professor Chua CN, Head of the ophthalmology Unit UNIMAS who generously sponsored 25 copies of the book “Eye care manual for non ophthalmologist”

Regarding the schedule, we included four plenaries. Plenary one of the course includes Basic in anatomy and clinical examination, plenary two the registries and national eye database, plenary three regarding eye pathologies and finally plenary regarding referrals and eye emergencies. The course also equiped with practical sessions including vision taking, examination techniques, tonometer schiotz checking and video shows and so on. Active discussions were made during the practical session which is the most valuable moment during the course.

We included pre course assessment and post course assessment to ascertain the message and information getting across to the participants. The post assessment marks shown tremendous improvement. Nevertheless, some got little marks compare to the pre course assessment but we attribute it to the increase in the understanding and cautious sense in managing eye complaints. We gave small award to the best achiever pre and post assessment as recognition. To our astonishment, and with heartfelt honoured, each of the organizing committees too received appreciation from the participants leaded by MA David from the emergency department .

From the feedback forms, we receive good feedback and most think it was an outstanding course but there are some comments on improvements these were being looked into seriously especially the lacking of lecture notes and request for more efficient practical sessions.

Appreciations to all the staffs which worked hard to make this successful. Including the secretariates JT Selehah and JM Katijah, SMA Musa, JT Lai and not to forget all the rest of the staffs who were covering us during the course. Bravo, my team, the eye team of Miri Hospital !!

Primary eye care course 2010 part 2

the big family photo during the course
Participants in another angle
Participants of the course




Dr Aziz is the invited speaker for the day






















Dr Chia was the best student for the post course assessment.