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Educating Your Patients
star What's New in Patient Education

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The Academy’s Video Production Studio

Visit the Academy Resource Center at the Joint Meeting in Chicago this year to record a professional DVD introduction, on-camera appearance or audio voice-over for patient education, practice promotion and social networking uses. The Academy’s Video Production Studio services are only available once a year at the Joint Meeting.  

Downloadable Eye Fact Sheet SubscriptionJust Released
Several new and revised products are now available to provide patients with in-depth and current information about their eye condition:

New
Downloadable Eye Fact Sheet Subscription


Revised
Digital-Eyes Ophthalmic Animations for Patients, 2nd Edition, Subscription
Advances in Refractive Surgery PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM, 2nd Edition
The Eye Over Time PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM, 2nd Edition

bullet Effective Patient Education

Effective patient education can be categorized into five distinct areas, which together comprise a solid foundation of information for your patients.

  1. The role of patient education is to favorably impact patient behavior, including compliance with short-term therapies, long-term management of chronic conditions and preventive lifestyle recommendations.

  2. Creating effective patient education involves several essential steps, including talking with your patients and using a variety of educational materials.

  3. There are numerous additional resources for your patients to access, which can aid them in learning about their condition.

  4. There is a wide variety of Academy patient education products for you to share with your patients.

  5. Lastly, the Academy has developed SmartSight, an initiative to assist your patients with low vision (visual acuities less than 20/40 or scotomas, field loss or contrast loss).