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Is patient masking leading to an increase in post-op infection after eyelid surgery?

21 October 2020 | Marion Sikuade, Jennifer HY Tan, Zanna Currie | EYE - Oculoplastic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of facemasks or face coverings in the clinical setting has become necessary. It is important to recognise that facemasks can be a source of infection after eye surgery and consider ways to minimise...

Things I’d tell my medical school self, had I known my first year on the job would be during a global pandemic

5 June 2020 | Nikolaos Tzoumas | EYE - General

In a conversation with his younger self, a foundation doctor reflects on the contrast between his expectations of medicine at university and the reality of working during the coronavirus pandemic. Every doctor arrives at medical school with nervous anticipation, yet...

Bridging the gap – Supporting our patients across the primary / secondary care divide

1 June 2017 | EYE - General

Providing the best care for patients is surely a fundamental goal for all healthcare professionals. When waiting-times are long and getting longer, clinics are full, colleagues are off with stress-related illness and patients are complaining, is it possible to still...

Burnout: ubiquitous and unavoidable?

3 August 2023 | Meriam Islam | EYE - General

Meriam Islam reminds us of the importance of ‘putting our oxygen mask on first’ and avoiding burnout while we progress through our careers. Burnout. It’s a term we hear a lot. What does it mean though? According to Merriam Webster,...

Meltdown, Spectre, Flying Hospitals and Spy Cams

1 April 2018 | David Haider | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

iPhone slowdown In early 2018 users discovered that Apple was slowing down older iPhones intentionally. The reported reason was to prolong the usable battery life. These changes were made without the knowledge or consent of owners. Unsurprisingly, a community backlash...

Can e-learning help bridge the ophthalmology teaching gap?

1 February 2022 | Saad Mahmud Khan, Ruqaiyah Behranwala | EYE - General

The authors ask whether e-learning can help to address the current lack of ophthalmology teaching in the undergraduate curriculum. Studies among the United Kingdom, Australasian, Canadian and Asian medical schools have found that students on average spent just over a...

Virtual ophthalmic conferences: learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic

3 April 2024 | Sarah Suleyman Omran, Andre Ismail | EYE - General

The Covid-19 pandemic was the catalyst for a number of paradigm shifts in numerous industries. The demand for proxies that follow social distancing measures created a hotbed for digital solutions and transitioned these to social convention. In the aftermath, the...

Ocular bubbly: a vitreoretinal update on the art of gases

5 April 2022 | Adonis El Salloukh, Alexander Chiu, Sidath Wijetilleka | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

The authors remind us of the revolutionary impact gases have had on retinal surgery. In 1938, Rosengren attempted to improve his retina repair surgical outcomes [1]. He discovered that suturing the retina or pressing externally on the sclera were not...

The Duke-Elder exam: A medical student’s head start into ophthalmology

9 August 2021 | Neel Vyas | EYE - General

The Duke-Elder exam is a specialist ophthalmology exam intended for medical students to sit during medical school. It is named after Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, a pioneering Scottish ophthalmologist who was active in the first half of the 20th Century by...

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