Free BCLA Webinar: Contact Lens Confidence for Students and Early Clinicians
Contact lens confidence is not something you either have or don't. It is something you build. And the BCLA is offering a free hour to help you build it — this Tuesday, 28 April at 7 pm.
Starting in contact lens practice is harder than anyone tells you upfront. Selecting a first lens and reading the fit, and managing a patient who is anxious, uncertain, or just not getting on with their lenses. These are the moments that separate feeling capable from feeling like you're performing capability.
The British Contact Lens Association is running a free one-hour webinar on Tuesday, 28 April at 7 pm — open to all — specifically designed for students and early clinicians navigating exactly this.
What the session covers
The webinar, Building Confidence in Contact Lens Practice as a Student and Early Clinician, will be led by Habeeb Rahman, a specialist optometrist at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust who also works in independent practice and supervises undergraduate students on the MOptom programme at the University of Bradford.
That combination matters. He knows the clinical environment. He knows what students are actually struggling with. And he knows what independent practice looks like on the other side of qualification.
The session will focus on three practical areas:
- A simple framework for selecting and assessing trial lenses
- Strategies for improving communication with patients around contact lenses
- Practical techniques to reduce uncertainty in early clinical scenarios
Why does this matter if you're heading towards independence
Contact lens practice is a direct revenue stream in independent optometry. It is also one of the clearest clinical differentiators between a practice that invests in the appointment and one that processes patients through it.
Clinicians who are confident in contact lenses early — who can have the full conversation, assess the fit, and manage the follow-up — are better placed to build the kind of patient relationships that an independent practice runs on.
This is a free hour. On a Tuesday evening. Delivered by someone with one foot in hospital practice and the other in independent optometry. Worth your time.
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