Save the Date!!! OpticalCEUs Offering Continuing Education on Oct. 25th at Foxwoods

Need to renew your state license or ABO/NCLE certification? Need more continuing education credits for your state license?

OpticalCEUs can help! Join us on October 25th at our new location in the Celebrity Ballroom, Fox Tower, Foxwoods, to get the best value in continuing education.

So march your calendars. Set those reminders. And check www.OpticalCEU.com in the coming weeks for more information and registration.

Register for OpticalCEU’s Fall 2013 Conference on Oct. 20th

Need to renew your state license and ABO/NCLE certification (see details about the elimination of ABO/NCLE’s certification grace period)? You can with the best value in continuing education - a full-day, 7-credit program from F.E. Enterprises (click this link).
Pick up the latest ideas in the field - from preserving vision health to new contact lens technologies.  The six courses at the Grand Pequot Ballroom, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, CT on Sunday, October 20, will help you discover how to fit irregular corneas with contact lenses, provide top-notch patient care by identifying vision health issues, and learn about new technology in spectacle and contact lenses.
Register for OpticalCEUs Fall 2013 Conference for opticians and eye care providers. Here are the seminars being presented:
The Miracle of Sight and How to Preserve It  Speaker: Deborah Kotob (2 ABO ) 9am-11am NEW!Grading Contact Lens Complications  Speaker: Linda Conlin (1 NCLE) $65 11am-Noon 
Fitting Irregular Corneas  Speaker: Joe Forte (1NCLE ) 1 pm-2 pm NEW!Beam Me Up!  Understanding the Slit Lamp  Speaker: Linda Conlin (1 NCLE) 2 pm-3 pm NEWDiseases of the Eye  Speaker: Joe Forte (1 ABO ) 3pm-4pm NEWAugmented Reality Contact Lenses  Speaker: Linda Conlin (1 NCLE)4 pm-5pm
Since Conlin founded OpticalCEUs in 1999, it has provided opticians with accredited continuing education units. Each year, hundreds of opticians use the earned credits to fulfill their licensing requirements in many states, such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, to name only three. Opticians also apply their earned credits to their ABO and NCLE certifications.
Conlin added that in addition to the conference, OpticalCEUs provides opticians with a blog designed exclusively for their needs--Optical News from OpticalCEUs. The blog provides optical news from around the Web in digest form with links for more information.
For more information about the conference or the blog, send an email to F.E.Enterprises@OpticalCEU.com.

A CEU Program Opticians Can Chew On

OpticalCEUs, a division of F.E. Enterprises, will run its 2011 Spring Continuing Education Conference for opticians and ECPs needing ABO and NCLE credits on May 1, 2011, at the luxurious Foxwoods Resorts and Casinos, in Mashantucket, Connecticut, according to Linda Conlin, founder of OpticalCEUs.

The semi-annual event, which has been running for more than a decade, will have its usual line-up of speakers and their excellent multimedia presentations. They will cover a variety of topics regarding vision care, eyewear, and contact lenses, providing opticians and ECPs with as many as seven ABO/NCLE continuing education credits, notes Linda Conlin.

As usual, the economical fee will include free coffee or tea for attendees arriving for the morning sessions. In addition, opticians and ECPs attending a full day of sessions (seven credits), sessions only in the morning (three credits), or sessions only in the afternoon (four credits) can enjoy a complimentary lunch. Here's the menu for OpticalCEUs 2011 Spring Conference for opticians and ECPs:

• Soup and Salads: hearty minestrone soup; crisp iceberg lettuce with pepperoncini peppers, garbanzo beans, chopped tomatoes, and crumbled feta cheese served with either a house vinaigrette or buttermilk ranch dressing; tortellini pasta salad.
• Make Your Own Hot Sandwich: Philly cheese steaks with shaved rib-eye beef, melted cheese, grilled mushrooms and onions; honey BBQ pulled pork; eggplant Florentine; all served with fresh Hoagie rolls and seasoned curly fries.
• Desserts: chocolate fudge cake, blueberry lemon meringue cake, mandarin Earl Grey cake, along with coffee and assorted teas.

Course information and registration will be available online by the middle of March 2011. For directions to the resort, follow this link: Directions by car to Foxwoods. For information about the conference, email Linda Conlin at F.E.Enterprises@opticalceu.com.