Resources that make learning stick.

A complete practical guide designed to take you from university practicals and OSCEs through to pre-reg and everyday clinical practice. This handbook covers the key practical skills you need to know, with every practical broken down step by step — how to perform it, what to say to the patient throughout, what to look for and how to interpret your findings.

But I wanted this to go beyond a standard practical guide. I’ve included all the difficult little things that took me years to properly understand — the measurements that never quite made sense, the techniques that are difficult to visualise, the small details people forget to tell you, and the things I only truly understood after repeatedly practising them myself.

Throughout, you’ll find original photographs and demonstrations, step-by-step methods, patient-friendly explanations, interpretation of results, common OSCE stations and scenarios, commonly asked questions, common mistakes, and tips, tricks and clinical pearls on every single page.

This handbook has grown from the same set of notes I developed and continuously refined throughout my undergraduate degree, Master’s and pre-registration. I’ve now sat down and poured everything I’ve learnt into one resource — including all those “I wish someone had explained it like this in the first place” moments.

Whether you’re learning a practical for the first time, preparing for an OSCE or refreshing your skills in practice, this is designed to be the complete practical companion you can keep coming back to throughout your optometry journey. Know what to do. Know what to say. Know what your results mean. Perform it.