Professional Development

Audio - Visual Subscription Service

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The Victorian College of Optometry’s Audio-Visual Subscription Service offered to members is a convenient method of obtaining continuing education by remote access.

In 2009 VCO members will automatically be provided with a DVD of each of the Seminar Series, which will also be available on the VCO website, subject to speaker permission being granted.

The College also has a library of DVD's / Video's of Seminars from previous years and tapes of proceedings from Southern Regional Conferences available for loan. In addition, the VCO subscribes to the well-respected American Audio-Digest Foundation, purchasing their Ophthalmology CD's (24 issues per year), which can also be loaned to members subscribing to the Audio-Visual Subscription Service. If members were to subscribe direct from the Foundation this would cost $US 840.54 to receive those CD's, the ACO service therefore offers a tremendous saving. (http://www.audio-digest.org)

Professional Development Staff will notify the Optometrists Association of Australia (OAA) of materials borrowed through the subscription service - one CPD point is gained for each item loaned. Members receiving the 2009 DVD's direct or downloading lectures from the VCO website will be responsible for notifying the OAA themselves that they have watched a particular lecture.

Postal service:

When you subscribe to the Audio-Visual Subscription service you may view the Catalogue here and notify Professional Development of your areas of interest. Your preferences are then noted and will be included in the items sent to you as they are available via post. However, the Professional Development team do try to send more recent material to subscribers. The loan period is three weeks and as you return material further items will be despatched within a few days.

Members also have the option of obtaining additional continuing education points by correctly completing a questionnaire relevant to the material loaned.

Multiple-Choice Questionnaires

A set of 10 multiple-choice questions accompanies all CDs from the American Audio Digest Foundation. There are also questionnaires available for quite a number of the Seminar Series' lectures. Although optional for the subscriber to complete the multiple-choice questionnaire, an extra CPD point is gained if the questionnaire is completed with at least 50% accuracy and returned to the College. The VCO will notify the OAA accordingly. A small administrative charge is made for processing the questionnaires.

Subscribers failing questionnaires will be notified via telephone.

Questionnaires

Further Information

If you need any further information, please contact Administrative Officer in the Professional Development Office via telephone on 03 9349 7477 or email profdev@ vco.org.au