Specifications

12 I About the Program
The EyePACS Handbook: Tools for Program Success
• Responsibilities of on-site EyePACS site administrators:
o Adding user accounts
o Editing or deleting accounts
o Adding sub-sites
The Regional Coordinator will guide each trainee through the complete screening
process once, using other trainees as test cases. For the rest of the training session,
trainees will take turns conducting retinal scans on each other while the regional
coordinator provides guidance on how to perform the screenings and gives advice on
taking good quality images. Generally, the first test case that a trainee performs takes
up to one hour with subsequent test cases decreasing in length (typically, the 2
nd
case
takes about 20 minutes and the 3
rd
takes 7 to 10 minutes).
By the end of the day, each photographer will have gone through the process a total of
three times and will have three sets of images that count toward the 10 test cases they
need to perform in order to become certified.
Week 1 – Completion of 10 Test Cases
Once the training is completed, photographers will be asked to upload 5 test cases
(which can include those performed during the training) within the first 3 days. Test
cases should be performed on clinic staff members, not patients. The EyePACS team
will read the test case photographs and provide trainees with feedback on the quality of
their images through the EyePACS site. Trainees must be sure to log on to the site to
review their feedback so that they can incorporate the suggestions into the rest of the
test cases they perform that week. By the end of the week, trainees should have
submitted a total of 10 test cases.
Week 1
• Complete
10 Test
Cases
Week 2
• Feedback
on 10 Test
Cases
Week 3
• Complete
15 Patient
Screens
Week 4
• Complete
15 Patient
Screens
Timeline of Screening Benchmarks