Overview

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.

Who this course is for 

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

Course content 

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

Teaching and structure 

The course content is designed so that you can go through the topics and pre-recorded lectures online at your own pace. There will be an online forum for asking questions.

The course will be hosted on UCL Extend, UCL's learning platform for short courses and professional education.

Access to the course materials will end one month after the course end date. This will be listed on the course area on UCL Extend.

Certificates and assessment 

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.

Learning outcomes

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

Eyelid malposition

• 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.

Lid oncology

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

Sockets

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

Adnexal trauma

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

Orbital

• 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.

Lacrimal

• 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.

Cost

The standard course fee is £650.

Course team

Raj Das-Bhaumik

Raj is module co-lead for Oculoplastics on the UCL MSc in Ophthalmology. He was appointed as Consultant Surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital in 2010 having completed his higher specialist training in London. He is also a consultant in undergraduate education at Moorfields and leads the physician associate programme as well as teaching medical students from four universities. He is a surgical trainer at Moorfields and teaches on the microsurgical course at The Royal College of Ophthalmology.

Hannah Mary Timlin

Hannah is a Consultant in Adnexal Ophthalmic Surgery with subspecialist interests in Oculoplastics, Periocular Oncology and Lacrimal Surgery at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She is also a Medical Educator, tutoring St George’s Medical Students and UCL MSc Students. She has been awarded the Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Ross Foundation Bursary from the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit, the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society Annual Publication Award, and the European Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Richard Collin Junior Award. She has written and published 20 academic papers and is a member of the British Oculoplastic Surgery Society.

Mohsan Malik

Mohsan has successfully completed his training in the North Thames Rotation, which included higher specialist training at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He currently holds the position of senior fellow with a subspecialist focus on Adnexal Surgery. Additionally, he serves as a peer reviewer for several prominent journals in facial plastics and is a co-editor for the Royal College of Ophthalmology's INSPIRE undergraduate training program. His contributions and innovations in education, oculofacial and orbital surgery have earned him several international and national awards.

Course information last modified: 17 Nov 2023, 16:51