| Descriptors |
- Demonstrate competency in diagnosis, investigation and management of uveitis in a wide range of patients with infectious and non-infectious uveitis, including:
- Demonstrate competency in diagnosis, investigation and management of other inflammatory orbital and ocular disease including:
- systemic vasculitis
- scleritis and inflammatory corneal disease
- lacrimal and orbital inflammation
- ocular surface inflammation
- neurological inflammatory disease
- HIV and the immunosuppressed patient
- Demonstrate competency in interpretation of relevant investigations, including:
- optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- fluorescein angiography
- indocyanine green angiography
- electrodiagnostic tests
- B scan ultrasonography
- Recognise and acutely manage patients presenting with sight threatening uveitis.
- Apply Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) criteria.
- Identify and plan appropriate management for the complications of uveitis, such as uveitic cataract, uveitic glaucoma, macular oedema and retinal detachment, and co-manage these along with colleagues in other special interest areas.
- Plan appropriate perioperative management of patients with uveitis and related ocular inflammatory conditions undergoing intraocular surgery.
- Employ local and systemic medicines appropriately, including steroids, steroid-sparing immuno-suppressive agents and biologic therapies in patients with non-infectious uveitis, in a way that maximizes benefit and minimizes harm.
- Monitor and evaluate the effects of treatment for patients with non-infectious and infectious uveitis and make changes to therapy appropriate to the course of the disease.
- Monitor and manage the side-effects of systemic treatment.
- Identify uveitis patients who have an underlying systemic disease or infection or are immunocompromised; understand how this may change the management and/or course of the disease.
- Maintain a record of activities, using the RCOphth electronic logbook.
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