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Passing the Refraction Certificate as a Foundation doctor

3 April 2023 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
Application for ophthalmic specialist training (OST) is competitive. This means you should consider making every effort to maximise your portfolio points, as it may have a significant contribution to your OST application ranking. The “Commitment to Specialty” section is the...

Ocular toxicity secondary to deferoxamine

12 June 2026 | | EYE - Pathology, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Patients with myelodysplastic syndromes can develop transfusion-related iron overload as they become dependent on recurrent blood transfusions [1]. Iron chelation therapy is indicated for the treatment of iron overload and one established example of this is deferoxamine. However, deferoxamine ocular...

A near miss

1 February 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
A 55-year-old gentleman presented with a ‘blurry patch’ to his left eye which he had noticed for the past two months. The visual acuity with correction was 6/5 in the right eye and 6/6 in the left eye on the...

The ocular manifestations of COVID-19: an overview of current literature

6 April 2021 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
Although respiratory symptoms are the most frequent manifestation of COVID-19, multi-organ involvement has been demonstrated, including ocular manifestations. The author investigates how the eye can be affected. The SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a significant public...

The value of hospital placements in ophthalmology in general practice specialty training

2 February 2024 | | EYE - General
Pratik Bikkannavar provides insights into the potential benefits a placement in ophthalmology provides General Practice Specialty Trainees (GPSTs) and its valuable purpose for the wider ophthalmic community. Ophthalmic complaints are known to account for up to 1 in every 20...

Identifying life-threatening uveal melanoma: A directed application of general-purpose AI

2 April 2025 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - Oncology
Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare but aggressive eye cancer, affecting approximately six people per million annually [1]. Uveal melanoma arises in three locations: the choroid, ciliary body, and iris. As the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults, UM...

Highlights from The RCOphth Annual Congress 2023

25 May 2023 | | RCOphth2023, live updates, birmingham, icc
Check in here for live updates and media from the RCOphth Annual Congress 2023 being held in Birmingham's ICC between 22-25 May.

The Makassar-Dundee VISION 2020 LINK: a tale of two cities and two trainees

1 October 2014 | | 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
A resident’s view from Makassar My name is Hendra Kusuma, a final year resident (registrar) in the ophthalmology department at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia. We have had a VISION 2020 LINK with Dundee (coordinated at the UK end by...

Increasing access to eye care through community outreach clinics in Uganda

1 June 2019 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - General
There has been a VISION 2020 LINK between Mulago Hospital and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda and the Royal Free Hospital, London, since 2010. There have been regular training visits between teams from the eye departments at Mulago and the...

Diabetic Retinopathy Network laser training programme

5 February 2020 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
The VISION 2020 Diabetic Retinopathy Network (DR-NET) was established in 2014 to tackle the increasing burden of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in developing countries [1]. By forming a network of long-term LINK capacity-building partnerships, learning and best practice can...

Corneal dystrophies simplified

1 February 2017 | | EYE - Cornea
Based on biomicroscopic and histopathologic features, corneal dystrophies can be broadly classified into epithelial, Bowman’s layer / anterior stromal, stromal, and endothelial dystrophies. Corneal dystrophies are a group of inherited, bilateral, gradually progressing, non- inflammatory conditions caused by accumulation of...

Optical coherence tomography – reinventing the eye examination

1 October 2016 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging
It has been 25 years since Huang et al. presented the first optical coherence tomography (OCT) images in Science [1]. With vast improvements in OCT technology over the years, it is now possible to acquire high-resolution cross-sectional images of the...