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Glaucoma UK ‘Excellence in Glaucoma Care Award 2024’ Winner Announcement

22 April 2024 | awards, GCU, Glasgow, optometry, opticians, education, Zainab Alrikabi
PhD student at Glasgow Caledonian University wins the Glaucoma UK ‘Excellence in Glaucoma Care Award 2024’.

Landmark educational event for ophthalmology trainees hosted by Newmedica Suffolk

9 May 2025 | news, industry news, ISP, private sector, education, training
Ophthalmology trainees from the East of England were invited to attend a landmark surgical training event being hosted by Newmedica Suffolk in May 2025 where they were able to gain invaluable experience from national experts in the field of cataract...

Behind the curtain: What trainees wish they knew before starting in ophthalmology

10 November 2025 | | EYE - General
As a foundation year doctor, I didn’t expect ophthalmology to feature much in acute medicine or surgery. Yet it kept appearing at the periphery – and when it did, it was often complex and unexpectedly urgent. A confused older patient...

Headaches in ophthalmology (part 2)

1 December 2018 | | EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - General
Ophthalmologists see a large number of patients with headaches or facial pain in the ophthalmic outpatient clinics or in emergency clinics. Over two articles, I will discuss several causes of headaches, ocular manifestations and proposed management and referral options. It...

Brave new world

3 June 2024 |
It’s a great honour to be handed the editorial relay baton by Professor Bal Dhillon and I hope I don’t fumble it along the way. As I put pen to paper, I reflect on Bal’s signing off in the last...

Human factors in the operating room

3 June 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
The importance of minimising human error in surgery is well established. This was initially sparked by lessons learned from the aviation industry in the 1970s after several fatal flight accidents [1]. This became a catalyst for a movement on training...

WATCH EPISODE 2: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission

20 March 2023
This Andean Medical Mission series is called Beyond 2020, and focuses on the many aspects of creating services which will ultimately impact on eliminating avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services.

ABDO approved as a Registered Centre by the Chartered Management Institute

23 January 2025 | education, training, industry, optometry, Dispensing optician
The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) has approved the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) to be a Registered Centre. ABDO previously operated as an e-centre with CMI and this change allows ABDO to consider any future management and leadership training...

WATCH EPISODE 2: Beyond 2020 with the Andean Medical Mission

20 March 2023
This Andean Medical Mission series is called Beyond 2020, and focuses on the many aspects of creating services which will ultimately impact on eliminating avoidable blindness in countries with developing eyecare services.

How to win presentation medals

1 August 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
Having been to many tens of thousands of ophthalmology registrar presentation competitions and seen the types of presentations that consistently impress the judges, as well as the ones that fail to make the grade, I feel it is my humble...

The writer: publishing my first book as a trainee

1 November 2014 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Medicine is very hierarchical. Indeed, Hippocrates himself laid the foundation of the apprenticeship that is medical training and while it is the noble duty of the boss to pass on information and ask for tasks to be undertaken as a...