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Axial length measurement advice to be shared in webinar
24 January 2024
The first BCLA webinar of 2024 will look at using axial length measurement as a guide for decision making around myopia management.
Moorfields complex strabismus day
11 July 2025
The Moorfields complex strabismus day is dedicated to developing best practice for consultants, senior fellows and senior orthoptists through the presentation and discussion of strabismus cases with key learning points emphasised. Hosted in hybrid format, the day will be chaired...
Ophthalmology for Medical Students DVD
1 October 2015
| Gwyn Samuel Williams
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - General
Medical students spend far too little time in clinical ophthalmology, barely a week in a whole five year course. A week usually taken up by learning very basic facts about the eye and about the specialty, which means that any...
Doctor by the sea (Pete’s Hidden Curriculum Part 1)
1 February 2022
| Peter Cackett
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EYE - General
See Pete's Hidden Curriculum Part 2 here. “They can always hurt you more.” This is The Fat Man’s Law Number 8 from the book The House of God by Samuel Shem. For those that have not read this book, it...
What's trending Feb/Mar 2024
2 February 2024
| Akash Dharni
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EYE - General
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #ScleralTattoo #BlackEye Scleral tattoos aren’t necessarily a new phenomenon. A quick google search will identify cases being in the news from...
Preparing for the Duke Elder Award
11 July 2024
| Euan MacInnes
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EYE - General
The Duke Elder examination is an undergraduate ophthalmology exam, conducted by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and undertaken by students with an interest in ophthalmology. It is a two-hour, 90-question, multiple choice exam with a broader curriculum than that...
On the wrong track
1 June 2015
| Jan Huelle
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
A 65-year-old very high myope lady presented with sudden blurred vision down to count fingers to her right eye after a short and sharp pain. She also described seeing a black swirly line and as all these symptoms were exactly...
First UK doctor dies due to Covid-19
31 March 2020
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COVID-19
An ear, nose and throat consultant has become the first UK doctor confirmed to have died of coronavirus.
RNIB's verdict on the 10-Year Plan for the NHS
The UK Government has released the long awaited 10-Year Plan to reform the National Health Service (NHS) in England. The Plan outlines the details and proposals to deliver on the promised three changes which would transform healthcare across the country:...Neuro-ophthalmology: the extended role of an orthoptist
Neuro-ophthalmology has always been a speciality of interest during my studies and now in my career. In 2018, I started a Band 7 post which gave me an extended role in neuro-ophthalmology and the responsibility of developing an orthoptic led...Orthoptist takes office as Master of The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
6 October 2023
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spectacle makers, Liz Shilling, Liz Tomlin, Guy’s and St Thomas, Opticians, ophthalmology
In what she called “a giant leap for orthoptists”, Liz Shilling (known professionally as Liz Tomlin), was installed this week as Master of The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, the first orthoptist ever to serve as Master in the Company’s almost 400 year-old history.
Educational concerns and anxiety levels amongst ophthalmology trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic
5 June 2020
| Kerr Brogan, David Lockington
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EYE - General
How concerned are ophthalmology trainees about the present impact and the future consequences of suspended ophthalmic training programmes? Researchers in the West of Scotland investigate. Anxiety, stress and the longer-term stress reaction of burnout often go unrecognised, yet are known...