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World Optometry Day 2022
23 March 2022
| Janet Pooley
Today, Wednesday 23rd March, is #WorldOptometryDay. A day to celebrate the global community of optometrists and all the eye care professionals that support the ophthalmic health and wellbeing of many millions of patients.
How to write and publish a case report – tips and common pitfalls
2 August 2024
| William Evans
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EYE - General
Ophthalmology is an extremely popular specialty, with the competition ratio at ST1 level entry being 10:1 in 2023 [1]. Consequently, applicants are required to achieve higher portfolio scores to remain competitive. For those considering a career in ophthalmology, two points...
Navigating the retina: the nitty-gritty of slit-lamp fundus examination
3 August 2023
| Pratik Bikkannavar, Mala Subash
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The slit-lamp fundus examination can be a difficult and disorientating task for beginners due to the retina being viewed in a non-anatomical orientation, the small area of retina illuminated, and the counterintuitive technique of the examination. This article provides a...
How to pass the FRCOphth part 2 oral exam
1 June 2022
| Hari Kaneshayogan
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EYE - General
If you have got this far in terms of your exams, relax. In terms of pass rate, the hardest FRCOphth membership exams are already behind you. The pass mark for the part 2 oral exam is around 75%, and about...
Mayor opens new community eye clinic for Lancashire
To further support eye-health for people in the Lancashire region, a new permanent eye care facility has opened in the heart of Bamber Bridge, just three miles from Preston. Opened yesterday by the Mayor and Mayoress of South Ribble Borough...Optegra launches new junior doctor training
Eye hospital group Optegra has further increased its support of the NHS with a new training scheme for NHS junior doctors.Myopia management
1 December 2022
| Shivam Goyal, Shona Redmond
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EYE - General
With the growing prevalence of myopia at epidemic levels in some countries and increasing number of research publications on myopia control, there is a lot of controversy regarding the management of myopia. As none of them are at present available...
Paediatric spectacle dispensing: more than a frame and lenses
1 April 2017
| Barry Duncan
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EYE - General
It’s incredibly rewarding to fit a child’s first pair of spectacles and see their face light up; looking around to see the wider world for the first time. Sometimes it is so obvious that even the most reluctant parent will...
Planes, trams, and auditoriums: Beware predatory conferencing
4 December 2024
| Rod McNeil
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Predatory open-access journals and predatory conferences are considered the two main areas of predatory infiltration in academic medicine that are of growing concern [1–7]. Unsolicited publishing requests from potentially predatory publishers occur frequently among faculty in ophthalmology [8]. Predatory conferencing...
Phacogeddon
A trainee shortly to rotate to my firm was unhappy at the fact that she had only one phaco list in her timetable. She was a final year trainee with more than five hundred cataract extractions to her name so...Moorfields Education: Ophthalmic practitioner training: Peripheral fundus and vitreoretinal emergencies
24 April 2024
This course is suitable for ophthalmic practitioners and advanced clinical practice healthcare specialists. Learn how to become more confident in diagnosing and managing vitreoretinal emergencies.
Moorfields Education: DALK wet lab
12 July 2024
The Moorfields DALK wet lab is aimed at corneal specialists who wish to start performing this technique or to improve their surgical skills. In-person, London.
