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2nd Liverpool Nasolacrimal and Orbital Dissection Course
8 September 2025
-9 September 2025
This course is aimed at Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) and Ophthalmology higher surgical trainees (ST5-ST8), senior fellows and consultants looking to improve their understanding and surgical skills in joint ENT/ophthalmology nasolacrimal and orbital surgeries. The aim of this course is to provide...
In conversation with Clare Abbott (ECLO)
3 October 2022
| Rosalyn Painter, Clare Abbott
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EYE - General
Rosalyn Painter spoke to Clare Abbott, a member of the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer (ECLO) team at Oxford Eye Hospital, about her day-to-day job as an ECLO, how the role can help patients, and the ongoing importance of their work....
HS-UK Slit Lamp Advanced Skills Course
14 March 2025
This one-day course designed by clinicians, for clinicians, will teach the skills necessary to achieve superior results with the slit lamp, including identification of pathology, gonioscopy and slit lamp imaging techniques. The training will include a series of lectures, demonstrations...
HS-UK Slit Lamp Advanced Skills Course June
18 June 2025
This one-day course designed by clinicians, for clinicians, will teach the skills necessary to achieve superior results with the slit lamp, including identification of pathology, gonioscopy and slit lamp imaging techniques. The training will include a series of lectures, demonstrations...
HS-UK Slit Lamp Advanced Skills Course Oct
3 October 2025
This one-day course designed by clinicians, for clinicians, will teach the skills necessary to achieve superior results with the slit lamp, including identification of pathology, gonioscopy and slit lamp imaging techniques. The training will include a series of lectures, demonstrations...
An ophthalmology elective in the South Pacific
2 June 2025
| Lizzie Rosen
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EYE - General
For the four weeks of September 2024, I was lucky enough to embark on an ophthalmology elective in the Kingdom of Tonga, a small island nation in the South Pacific Ocean. The Tongan people are incredibly friendly and upbeat, and...
Money never sleeps
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich” As declared by Jordan Belfort in a motivational speech to his staff in the film Wolf of Wall Street (2013). Unfortunately, medicine as a career does not lead to...From novice to overnight on-calls: developing an ophthalmology bootcamp to ease the learning curve for new trainees
4 December 2023
| Daniel Beck, Peter Wilson
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EYE - General
Introduction My first ophthalmology on-call was nine years ago and it was a fairly traumatic experience. I was an FY2 in a Welsh district general hospital and I was on my own – at least, that’s how it felt to...
Establishing an intra-arterial chemotherapy service for children with retinoblastoma in Nigeria for the first time
3 April 2023
| Mattan Arazi, Oteri Okolo, Dupe Ademola-Popoola, Richard Bowman, Ido Didi Fabian, Covadonga Bascaran, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - General
This is the first in a series of three articles (see Part 2 here) about strengthening eye health services in Nigeria through collaboration with the LINKS and Networks run at the International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene...
The Spectacle Makers’ Charity takes up the challenge of glaucoma in Nigeria
16 August 2022
The Glaucoma-NET was established by the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme in 2021 to address the high levels of irreversible blindness due to glaucoma in low-income countries. It aims to preserve the sight of people with glaucoma through bringing together patients, clinicians, researchers, NGOs and Ministries of Health, with a lasting and sustainable impact.
Greater Manchester residents asked to share views on eyecare services
NHS Greater Manchester is calling on residents to share their experiences of using eye care (ophthalmology) services as part of a region-wide evaluation aimed at improving care for people with eye disorders. This eight-week listening exercise, running from today, Monday,...My top five ways in which LinkedIn can be useful for ophthalmologists
3 April 2023
| Umar Ahmed
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EYE - General
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social networking site, that allows over 830 million users from over 200 countries from a variety of industries to connect. As a result, it is a powerful tool used by professionals to network, collaborate,...
