Ophthalmology for Pediatricians, Primary Care Physicians, and Other Allied Health Professionals

Saturday, January 20, 2024, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Wills Eye Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA


AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (3.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (3.50 hours)

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This course is designed to update the pediatrician, primary care physician, allied health professional and ophthalmologist on common ocular problems in the pediatric age group.  Emphasis will be on techniques for vision screening to detect amblyopia and strabismus.  Diagnosis and treatment of eye infections and the red eye in children will be discussed. New technologies to help the visually impaired will be presented.

1. Discuss important new advances in the etiologies, diagnosis, and treatment/prevention of pediatric eye diseases and strabismus.
2. Identify basic and clinical vision research that can be transformed into improved clinical care.
3. Assess the role of new technologies in the evaluation and treatment of pediatric eye diseases.
4. Describe factors that impact the effective delivery of the highest quality eye care for the pediatric patients, and patients with strabismus.
5. Identify clinical, scientific, and ethical issues confronting the profession.
6. Obtain information and tools through multiple facets to help ophthalmologists deliver high and efficient quality of care.

AMA PRA Statement
Wills Eye Hospital designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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In compliance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education set by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is the policy of Wills Eye Hospital that the information presented at CME activities will be commercially unbiased and based upon clinical and scientific evidence. To help participants make judgments about the presence of commercial bias, Wills Eye Hospital provides information that all individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity (including faculty, planners, reviewers or others) have disclosed about all financial relationships they have with ineligible companies. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Ineligible companies are companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. The CME activity staff at Wills Eye Hospital report no financial relationships with ineligible companies.