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Refractive Education
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Beyond 20/20
AN ASCRS SERIES IN MODERN REFRACTIVE SURGERY AND PRESBYOPIA THERAPY
This monthly series, sponsored by the ASCRS Refractive Surgery Clinical Committee, will present a deeper dive into new and established refractive surgery techniques and tools. This program features:
- Approved for 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- Robust faculty of more than 40 leading surgeons
- In-person learning and networking opportunity at the ASCRS Annual Meeting
- 3 complimentary, corporate-sponsored modules from our industry partners
- Eligibility to receive Certification of Completion by participating in all modules
2022 ASCRS Refractive Day
ASCRS Refractive Day presents a range of topics relating to refractive surgery, including preop evaluation, refractive corneal surgery, refractive cataract surgery, and new technologies.
Enjoy a taste of the 2022 ASCRS Refractive Day program to the left, "Thinking Outside the Box" Roberto Zaldívar Sr., MD
Use the link below to access 2022 Refractive Day On Demand (2022 Subspecailty Day registrants only).
View 2022 Refractive Day On Demand40th Annual Film Festival Refractive Films
View featured refractive films from the 40th ASCRS Film Festival at the 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting
(2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting physicians registrants only)
Featured 2022 Annual Meeting Symposium
Refractive Surgery Rare Circumstances: What, When, and How to Handle Complications
Enjoy presentations from this 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting symposium on refractive surgery complications. (2022 meeting registrants only)
20/HAPPY IN 2020
THE ASCRS MASTER CLASS IN REFRACTIVE CATARACT SURGERY
The live bi-weekly program features 80 of the leading international experts as faculty guiding you through a comprehensive curriculum through which attendees can improve all dimensions of their refractive IOL surgical practice.
The 20/Happy program is approved for 18 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Learn at your own pace and avoid conflicts with clinic/OR time with on-demand CME modules available.
Learn More about 20/Happy in 2020IC-110 LASIK Emergencies: A Breathless Video Bonanza
A case based series of LASIK and SMILE intraoperative and postoperative emergencies. Each case will include video, slit lamp photography and post-operative course. Example include flap tears, incomplete flaps, severe diffuse lamellar keratitis, torn lenticules and epithelial ingrowth.
IC-118 How to Calculate Topography-Guided LASIK Treatments
This course will review the various methods for calculating topography-guided LASIK treatments: TCAT, MRx, TMR, 50/50, and the Phorcides Analytic Engine. Normal and complex cases will be reviewed.
IC-312 Advanced Corneal Topography to Optimize Outcomes for Refractive Lens Exchange and Keratorefractive Surgery for Presbyopia
Course will review clinically relevant aspects of corneal topography and new anterior segment imaging technology. Topics include principles, latest advances, and descriptions of various topography, wavefront aberrometry, and biometry instrumentation.