Scope Independent Prescriber Bursary Scheme​

The Scope IP Bursary is designed to support Optometrists who wish to enhance their clinical skills and qualify as Independent Prescribers.
Scope is delighted to offer a bursary of £3,000 to the two winners to be used towards tuition fees at a centre of your choice. We also be awarding £100 vouchers as runners up prizes for the rest of the shortlisted participants.

The bursary is open to all UK Optometrists considering starting an IP qualification in order to improve their skills and patient care.

Optometrists who have already started or completed a IP qualification are not eligible to enter.

The application consists of two sections:

Part 1:
Submit an interesting patient case study where having an IP qualification would have improved the patients experience and care. Please use the template provided but feel free to add any additional details that you feel would enhance your application. Your application should be submitted as a word document.

Points to include:
– Background
– Clinical History
– The patients presenting condition
– How you managed it
– Patient outcomes
– How would you manage it if you were IP qualified?
– How would this benefit the patient?

Part 2:
A paragraph on why you would like to study IPWe are looking for candidates/recipients who see a real value in qualifying as an Independent Prescribing Optometrist. In a maximum of 1000 words we would like to hear what obtaining the qualification would mean
– to you personally
– to your clinical setting or practice
– to your patients

All applicants must agree to their case study submissions being used for further education or used on other materials that highlight how to manage patients in clinical practice. They may be also posted on the Scope Education Hub and Scope Connect

After completing the IP course winners will be expected to share their experiences using IP and provide 4 further interesting case discussions within the first 2 years of qualifying to help promote an IP qualification for Optometrists.

Sub­mit­ted cas­es must be orig­i­nal (i.e. not pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished). The case must be sub­mit­ted by the applicant who must be the author and should not be sub­mit­ted by any­one else on their behalf.

The case study (including any images, fig­ures, illus­tra­tions etc) shall:
– not infringe upon the pri­va­cy or per­son­al rights of others
– not con­tain any sen­si­tive information
– not be the copy­right of any oth­er enti­ty unless this is acknowledged
 
It is the authors responsibility to ensure that:
– They have obtained all necessary consent(s), approvals and authorisations in connection with the Case submitted.
– All the content of the Case, including the text, its title and media files have been stripped of all personal information that could be used to identify the patient.

Scope has the right to use, publish or reproduce any case studies submitted to them for promotional purposes or otherwise.

Par­tic­i­pants have the right to access, review, rec­ti­fy, can­cel or delete any per­son­al data held by Scope Ophthalmics Ltd.