Glaucoma New Zealand offers health professionals (Nurses, Optometrists, Orthoptists, General Practitioners & Technicians) a professional education programme, including an online programme and an annual one-day symposium.
Please click here to find out more about the 2025 Professional Symposium on Sunday 13th July in Auckland (6.9 GE points)
The Glaucoma NZ Online Education Programme provides an opportunity for eye health professionals to maintain their competence in diagnosing and treating glaucoma. Participation is available to any health professional, and the programme is available until 10th March 2026.
The programme is accredited by the NZ Optometrists & Dispensing Opticians Board (ODOB) CPD Accreditation Committee. A total of 15 GE points are available if the full programme is completed. (7 cases and Optic Disc assessments) All events completed before 31 October 2025, when the cycle ends, cannot be claimed for the next cycle. Events completed after 1st November – 10 March can be claimed for the 25-27 cycle.
All cases have been produced and reviewed by qualified glaucoma specialists. The 2025 cases were compiled and prepared by Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer and Dr Hannah Kersten.
Cases (2 CPD points each)
The Programme consists of 6 new cases per year, including case history, questions, and answers for self-directed learning, followed by a web-based examination comprised of 25 multi-choice and true/false questions. Three attempts are allowed to achieve the 70% pass required by ODOB CPD Accreditation Committee.
Optic Disc Grading (3 CPD points)
The disc grading component of the programme asks you to grade 20 pairs of optic discs across nine different parameters. Each set of disc photos has been independently graded by a glaucoma specialist ophthalmologist and a glaucoma prescriber optometrist, and correct answers are based on combinations of these gradings.
Please upload your certificates to ODOB before the 10 March 2026. For this, you need to download the Case Completion Certificate available from the Programme Report page for each successfully completed case & disc grading component.
Register for the Case events separately $45 + GST and the Optic Disc Assessment event $70 +GST …or
$295 (plus GST) to register to complete the entire programme (7 events), saving $45
Have you registered for this course in the past? Log in using your username and password and click ‘Programmes‘.