Stage 1
Understand the competencies, evidence requirements and assessment process. Work through clinical examples and weaker areas so you know what is expected and how to prepare.
Pre-registration learning pathways
Prepare for your route with purpose.
Choose the Scheme for Registration or CLiP so your resources, preparation and personalised support match the pathway you are actually completing.
Choose your route
Preparation shaped around your pathway.
The Scheme for Registration and CLiP are different routes, so your support should reflect the route you are actually completing.
Traditional pre-registration route
Scheme for Registration
Structured preparation for each formal stage of the Scheme for Registration, from building your evidence to performing confidently in the final OSCEs.
Stage 2
Prepare through mock assessments, case discussion and a structured run-through of the overarching competencies. Strengthen your reasoning, communication and management decisions.
Final OSCEs
Practise timed, realistic stations, individual station walkthroughs and practical skills, with focused support in pathology, low vision, communication, management and calculations.
Integrated university and workplace route
CLiP
Flexible support shaped around your university’s CLiP programme, your placement experience and the outcomes and assessments you are currently working towards.
Clinical learning & evidence
Connect workplace experiences to your required learning outcomes, organise clinical evidence and identify gaps that need more focused experience or revision.
Assessments & case discussion
Prepare for university and workplace assessments through structured cases, clinical reasoning, patient communication, practical technique and safe management decisions.
Clinical readiness
Build confidence across pathology, practical skills, low vision, calculations and OSCE-style scenarios where relevant to your programme, tailored to your university’s requirements.
Resources
Learn clearly, in your own time.
Focused guides, templates and teaching materials will live here as they are released.
History & differentials handbook
Essential and follow-up questions, red flags and differentials for common and urgent presentations.
Explore the resource shop →Patient explanations package
Clear, lay-friendly explanations covering conditions, findings, management and safety-netting.
Explore the resource shop →OSCE practical skills handbook
Step-by-step practical instructions, patient wording, interpretation, troubleshooting and top tips.
Explore the resource shop →Optom Mastery Learn
Practise the pathway—not just isolated questions.
Inside OM Learn, you will choose either Scheme for Registration or CLiP so the clinical cases, pathology images, calculations, videos, OSCE-style practice and progress tracking are organised around your route—not mixed together.
Discover OM Learn →ONE INTERACTIVE PLATFORMWatch · Practise · Apply · TrackComing soon
Personalised 1-to-1 support
Practise the route you are actually completing.
Choose Scheme for Registration support for Stage 1, Stage 2 or final OSCEs, or CLiP support tailored to your university requirements, workplace learning, assessments and weaker areas.