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My top five: A foundation doctor’s top five misconceptions about ophthalmology

4 December 2023 | | EYE - General
Choosing a specialty is challenging. As a foundation doctor, it often feels as if this choice is based solely on fleeting experiences. Compared to other specialties, there is relatively little exposure to ophthalmology during either medical school or foundation years....

My Top Five: A foundation doctor’s top five misconceptions about ophthalmology

4 December 2023 | | EYE - General
Choosing a specialty is challenging. As a foundation doctor, it often feels as if this choice is based solely on fleeting experiences. Compared to other specialties, there is relatively little exposure to ophthalmology during either medical school or foundation years....

Light view in night view!

2 August 2024 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Canary Wharf marked its eighth edition of the Winter Lights Festival earlier this year. Exhibiting new spectacular light installations alongside the permanent immersive art displays, a tiny spark of an idea has grown into the most anticipated event, already planning...

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...

Ophthalmology Specialty Training 2024: What's different?

13 December 2023 | | EYE - General
The 2024 intake for ophthalmology specialty training (OST) has undergone several significant changes in its approach towards candidate selection and assessment. This article provides a comparative analysis, detailing these new measures and comparing them against the previous year's standards. Our...

Ophthalmology in the Middle East: Reflections from two electives in Jordan and the UAE

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
In the summer of 2021, I was fortunate enough to embark on two electives in ophthalmology at the Shami Eye Centre in Amman, Jordan, and Moorfields Eye Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). These eye hospitals serve distinct populations,...

Large language models in ophthalmology

3 October 2024 | | EYE - General
Traditional artificial intelligence (AI) models typically require large amounts of labelled data for training. For example, to develop a model capable of detecting macular pathologies on optical coherence tomography scans, thousands of scans would need to be manually labelled by...

An interview with Rachel Morris: Clinician wellbeing and difficult conversations

19 August 2025 | | EYE - General | Wellbeing
In the last wellbeing supplement, I interviewed Robert Self, Vice President of the Association of Anaesthetists, and we discussed the resources that doctors can access when experiencing problems with their wellbeing. One of those that he recommended was the podcast...

Haag-Streit Academy launches exciting new agenda for their ‘Improving Outcomes’ Biometry courses

25 June 2024 | Research & Development, Company Profiles, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries
Haag-Streit Academy are thrilled to announce the launch of a new agenda for their highly popular ‘Improving Outcomes’ Biometry courses.

Heidelberg Engineering Welcomes Nick Capewell to the Clinical Sales Team

3 October 2025 | Company Profiles, Recruitment & Personnel
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Capewell to the clinical sales team at Heidelberg Engineering. Nick Capewell. Nick joins us after more than 10 years at University Hospitals Birmingham, where he trained and worked as an Ophthalmic Science Practitioner. Most recently,...

The importance of ‘hands-on’ learning

1 April 2014 | | EYE - General
Providing ongoing professional education and development for the allied professions out of the clinic or hospital setting is often quite challenging. The reorganisation of rotas, heavy clinic lists and financial constraints all add up to making the opportunity to learn...

My top five ophthalmology podcasts for trainees

7 December 2020 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Our schedules are seriously crowded these days, whether it be running from clinic to clinic, squeezing in lunch meetings, or trying to run errands after work, by the time we arrive at home we are too mentally exhausted to do...