Chicago, IL, October 15-18, 2005

• Identify issues important to appropriate patient selection and exclusion as well as understand elements essential for proper informed consent of the refractive surgery candidate.
• Identify and recognize the use of the most important and ancillary examination techniques for cataract and refractive surgery and the emerging technologies appearing in this area that can improve the preoperative knowledge of the refractive surgery and cataract patient that may lead to an improvement in the outcomes and avoid and solve problems and complications.
• Describe details of surgical technique that can facilitate achievement of improved outcomes in patients undergoing refractive surgery.
• Identify the relative merits and complication rates of refractive surgical procedures, including LASIK, LASEK, PRK, EpiLASIK, refractive lens exchange, phakic IOLs and thermal keratoplasty.
• Describe how to prevent, recognize, manage, and avoid complications of refractive surgery.
• Evaluate new refractive surgical devices and technologies, including phakic intraocular lenses, wavefront-guided customized ablation and evolving surgical approaches for presbyopia.

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