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Chief optometric advisor letter to optometry sector: update on undergraduate optometry degree reforms
Dr Janey Pooley, Chief Optometric Advisor to the Scottish Government, releases an update on progress of the reforms to the undergraduate optometry degree model in Scotland.A woman who has had two emergency eye operations ran her first Edinburgh Marathon on May 28th
Gail Burns, from Edinburgh, ran to fundraise for sight loss charity, RNIB Scotland, who supported her father in his diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration just two years ago.Running a high-volume nurse led intravitreal service using the Sp.eye device – the Stanley Eye Unit experience
2 February 2024
| Julia Baxter, Eoin Guerin, Catrin Bertalot, Alison Birch, Tracy Turner, Karen Evans
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Introduction The vast majority of ophthalmology units utilise allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) to deliver intravitreal injections (IVIs). The Royal College of Ophthalmologists issued a statement 10 years ago advocating the use of non-medical practitioners performing IVIs [1]. The main benefit...
Medical Ophthalmological Society (MOSUK) Meeting: 22 March 2023
11 January 2023
| Nima John Ghadiri
This year’s meeting takes place on 22 March 2023, and showcases the interdisciplinary breadth of medical ophthalmology.
Celebrating eight years of the nurse-led intravitreal injection service
4 February 2021
| Adam Mapani, Robin Hamilton, Jonah Nago, Gavin Kissoondeeal, Bhavin Maru, Musa Sanyang, Rankin Pacheco, Helen Carpenter, Julie Sharma, Mary Masih, Tracy Luckett, Kate Falkner
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London celebrated the eighth year of its nurse-led intravitreal (IVT) injection service in 2020. In collaboration with Beaver-Visitec International (BVI), Moorfields’ comprehensive one-day course for non-medical staff has blossomed into a thriving success....
How to get the most out of your ophthalmology elective
3 October 2022
| Hing Chi Kristie Leung, Hui Mei Wong, Sally Ameen
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EYE - General
If you are in your penultimate year (or even earlier) and have already decided that you want to do ophthalmology, good for you! Ophthalmology is one of the most competitive specialties, and one of the easiest ways to demonstrate your...
The treachery of images – making sense of OCT imaging
In 1929 Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte produced his painting La Trahison des Images. It depicted an old fashioned pipe for smoking tobacco and underneath were the words “ceci n’est pas une pipe”, this is not a pipe. You may wonder...Congratulations to the SOC poster prize winners!
24 September 2021
The Scottish Ophthalmological Club (SOC) recently hosted another excellent webinar on the theme ‘Post COVID – The Best of Times and The Worst of Times'.
Glaucoma UK and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists announce research award 2024
Glaucoma UK and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists are collaborating to run this prestigious award which has previously funded a range of research topics from prospective stem cell treatments to the use of big data in patient risk stratification.Moorfields: The 2025 macula course
2 June 2025
-5 June 2025
The 2025 Macula course will take place from 2nd - 5th June 2025. Bookings are now open. Retinal diseases are a major cause of blindness. Diagnostic investigations, understanding of disease mechanisms, new therapies, and the evidence base, have all evolved...
Moorfields Manual of Ophthalmology
1 February 2016
| Indira Madgula
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - General
The second edition of MMO edited by Timothy Jackson is a very handy practical resource for use in the eye casualty by doctors of all grades and nurse practitioners. It is a user-friendly, well presented manual, comprising 14 sections followed...
300 MCQs for the Duke Elder Ophthalmology Exam
3 April 2024
| Shi Pei Loo
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EYE - General
The Duke Elder undergraduate prize examination is held by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists annually for undergraduate medical students. It is a competitive examination covering clinical ophthalmology as well as the ocular basic sciences, optics, statistics and socio-economic medicine. For...