| Descriptors |
- Achieve safe and appropriate local anaesthetic for ophthalmic procedures.
- Perform routine minor eyelid procedures, including, incision and curettage, biopsy and excision of eyelid lesions.
- Perform emergency oculoplastic procedures, including, lateral canthotomy and cantholysis, eyelid laceration repair, (including the lid margin), tarsorrhaphy and botulinum toxin administration for protection of the cornea/ocular.
- Perform primary ectropion and entropion procedures.
- Know how to handle and manage an eyelid biopsy specimen to minimise artefacts.
- Make appropriate and reliable arrangements for the result to be acted upon in a timely fashion.
- Develop new skills in a supervised simulated environment.
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