Working with People with Learning Disabilities

Course Overview
This provides a brief introduction to the key issues affecting the health care of people with learning disabilities
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  • Written by experts
  • Introductory
  • 100% online
  • Video content
  • Multiple choice quiz
  • Approx. 1 hours to complete
  • Completion certificate
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About this course
This course will allow you to improve your understanding of Optical Coherence Tomography of the retina. The various modules and questions throughout will cover the significance of the individual layers with and without pathology on the retinal scans on both the Topcon Triton and Heidelberg machine platforms. The course will also cover the typical changes seen with diabetes and other non- DR pathologies, including vein occlusions, wet AMD, vitreo-retinal disorders and drug toxicity. Explanation and examples of the grading of OCT scans used within the London Diabetic Eye Screening protocol are also given. Finally you will have a chance to test your knowledge at the end of the modules.

Course authors and designers

Karina Marshall-Tate

Consultant Nurse | Learning Disabilities
Karina is the learning disability nurse consultant at SLaM. She is an experienced learning disability nurse who has worked across specialist inpatient and community services in south London for people with a learning disability and additional mental illness.

Dr Jean O'Hara

Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning (Intellectual) Disabilities
Originally from Hong Kong, Dr O'Hara is passionate about improving quality of care and developing future generations of clinicians.




Paul Gillary

Learning Technologist | BSc, MSc
Paul is a Senior Learning Technologist with expertise in web development, content creation, and software development. He collaborates with King's Health Partners (KHP) to design and develop courses in medical education and is particularly adept at crafting online and blended learning programs, ensuring effective and engaging educational experiences.