| Descriptors |
- Understand and apply advanced knowledge of neuro-ophthalmic disease and practice.
- Diagnose and manage complex neuro-ophthalmology cases including, but not limited to:
- optic neuropathy related to inherited and acquired causes and compressive lesions
- papilloedema
- oculomotility disturbance (including myopathies, infra-/inter- and supranuclear disorders and vestibular disorders)
- visual field anomalies such as:
- functional disorders
- neoplastic/paraneoplastic disorders
- higher cortical visual dysfunction
- infective, inflammatory, auto-immune, vascular/ischaemic disorders
- neuro-ophthalmology presentations of systemic disorders
- Independently manage emergency neuro-ophthalmology cases.
- Manage neuro-ophthalmology clinics independently.
- Understand and utilise available instrument technology relevant to neuro-ophthalmology.
- Evaluate published developments in neuro-ophthalmology and modify own practice appropriately. Understand where controversies and alternative managements exist.
- Give specialist advice to non neuro-ophthalmology specialists.
- Liaise and support colleagues from other subspecialties to optimise patient care, when co-management is required.
- Recognise and refer patients who will benefit from more specialist input.
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