22/07/2019
“Empowering Optometry through Education!!” was the aim for ASCON 2019. Association of Schools and colleges of Optometry- India (ASCO- India) organized 1st Optometry conference, June 22nd – 25th, 2019 at Chitkara University, Chandigarh, Punjab. Mr. Aditya Goyal, President of ASCO- India had a vision to organize a conference catering to the interests of students, faculty and practitioners.
ASCON 2019 – International optometry conference was well attended by students, practitioners, Faculty members, and delegates all over India, Europe and Israel.
On 22nd and 23rd June, plenary sessions and panel discussions, led by a team of National and International speakers on various topics in optometry like myopia control, emerging trends in optometry, Practice management, latest happenings in eye care and technology etc. were held. Special thanks to BIPOK team, speakers, and industry partners for their support. Various workshops were conducted in optometry specialties like, Low Vision, Orthokeratology, Vision Therapy, Research Methodology, Ocular Prosthesis by the subject expert. We thank all the speakers, for sharing their knowledge with the participants.
National level quiz was conducted to encourage students. We acknowledge the efforts of our quiz master. Scientific poster presentations were steered for the young researchers to showcase their talent. The poster presentations were well presented by these young and budding optometrists. We thank judges for judging the posters and selecting the best.
Fun filling cultural event and DJ night cannot be missed, what a super like, mind blowing, fabulous performance by students. They proved that Optometrist Can Dance and Optometrist can be a Fashionista. Judges could not stop saying, “Stupendo Fantabulously Fantastical” for all the performances.
Icing on the cake was “Best outgoing student award” ceremony. What better occasion than ASCON 2019 to give the awards to the best student nominated from their optometry institutes.
24th and 25th June - Another epic day for ASCO- India, OCULUS National Dissemination Workshop. ASCO-India, one of the dissemination partners for the Oculus project, conducted this workshop for all the optometry faculty members across the country to develop human resource to harmonize optometric education in India according to ECOO standards. The objective of this workshop was to disseminate the learning from the project to various optometry schools. The workshop was well attended by faculty members from various optometry schools giving them insights about global perspectives about optometry education. Two-day workshop covered topics on Tools for learning, Evidence Based Practice, Case studies and Rubrics, Accreditation process, and Hands-on session on oculus portal for lifelong learning. We thank our partner Institutes and speakers from India, Israel, UK, and Norway. All the attendees were enriched by the teachings in the workshop and are motivated to implement the same in their institutes.
24th and 25th June - Another epic day for ASCO- India, OCULUS National Dissemination Workshop. ASCO-India, one of the dissemination partners for the Oculus project, conducted this workshop for all the optometry faculty members across the country to develop human resource to harmonize optometric education in India according to ECOO standards. The objective of this workshop was to disseminate the learning from the project to various optometry schools. The workshop was well attended by faculty members from various optometry schools giving them insights about global perspectives about optometry education. Two-day workshop covered topics on Tools for learning, Evidence-Based Practice, Case studies and Rubrics, Accreditation process, and Hands-on session on oculus portal for lifelong learning. We thank our partner Institutes and speakers from India, Israel, UK, and Norway. All the attendees were enriched by the teachings in the workshop and are motivated to implement the same in their institutes.
