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ST 1 Ophthalmology Interview Mock Workshop 5

1 February 2025
Our philosophy is that you learn best by being tested. In medical school, we have gotten familiar with question banks for revision and testing the knowledge that we’ve picked up. Interviews are no different, and whilst mock interviews are an...

ST 1 Ophthalmology Interview Mock Workshop 4

18 January 2025
Our philosophy is that you learn best by being tested. In medical school, we have gotten familiar with question banks for revision and testing the knowledge that we’ve picked up. Interviews are no different, and whilst mock interviews are an...

iPrepBuddy: FRCOphth Part 2 Oral Case Based Webinar

19 August 2024
Come join for a free webinar (interactive) helping you prepare for some of the more difficult scenarios that could come up in your FRCOphth part 2 oral/viva exam. We will spend the hour tackling practical tips, and helping you practice...

The meaning of life

1 December 2021 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Supercomputer: “The answer to the great question of Life, the Universe and Everything is…”Programmer: “Yes…?”Supercomputer: “42. It was a tough assignment”.Programmer: “42? Is that all you have got to show for seven and a half million years work?” In this...

Getting one’s eye in

4 February 2021 | | EYE - General
Lisette Bijma, Sister in the Eye Emergency Department at John Radcliffe Hospital, explains how COVID-19 provided a ‘baptism by fire’ and enabled fundamental and positive changes to the running of the department. Five years ago, I arrived in the UK,...

What's trending Feb/Mar 2025

4 February 2025 | | EYE - Cornea, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
A round-up of the eye-related hot topics that have been trending on social media over the last few weeks. #ChrisMcCausland #StrictlyWinner “I hope that anybody out there that doesn’t know someone who is blind now has higher expectations of what...

Update on emerging therapies for age-related macular degeneration

4 December 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The 23rd European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) Congress, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, provided a timely update on anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy and emerging investigational therapies for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Anti-complement therapy for geographic atrophy Geographic atrophy...

My Top Five: Ways to gain discretionary points in the ‘commitment to specialty’ section of the ophthalmology portfolio

5 October 2026 | | EYE - General
Ophthalmology remains one of the most competitive specialties of 2026, which means every point in your evidence folder matters. The largest and most influential section is the ‘Ophthalmology specialty links and commitment to date as a career’, worth an impressive...

Optical sector bodies urge GOC to rethink approach to CPD reform

23 April 2026 | training, CPD, optometry, public health
The UK’s main optical sector bodies have responded to the General Optical Council’s (GOC) consultation on proposed reforms to continuing professional development (CPD), warning that the current proposals could have implications for public protection if not carefully implemented and may...

The paradox of green: When environmental solutions lead to unintended harm

1 April 2026 | | sustainability
The global drive toward environmental sustainability is increasingly hampered not by outright denial, but by well-meaning solutions that conceal perverse incentives and unintended ecological consequences. Many popular ‘green’ measures, adopted by simplifying complex environmental challenges into easy substitutions or offsets,...

Corporate M&A pace gathers momentum

1 October 2019 | | EYE - General
Intensifying franchise competition, maturing product development pipelines and looming loss of exclusivity spur renewed merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the ophthalmics sector. Rod McNeil reviews recent deals and related strategic developments. AbbVie to acquire Allergan in $63 billion mega-combination,...

Towards virtual reality conferences?

5 August 2020 | | EYE - General
COVID-19 is forcing us to reconsider every aspect of life. The authors ask what future ophthalmic meetings could look like. The coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic disrupted ophthalmic conferences resulting in the cancellation of the majority of meetings in 2020, e.g....