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How to pass the FRCOphth Part 1 as a foundation trainee: some practical tips

7 February 2022 | Vanessa Yeo | EYE - General

Attempting the FRCOphth Part 1 examination as a foundation trainee requires significant time and financial commitment. Unlike the MRCP and MRCS examinations, the curriculum of this exam does not overlap with the undergraduate syllabus. As such, it is a steep...

Work experience in ophthalmology as an A-Level student

5 September 2023 | Zainab Mehmood, Qasim Mansoor | EYE - General

Importance of work experience Medical schools expect applicants to understand what a career in medicine involves, which can be gained through work experience and volunteering. It is strongly recommended by the Medical Schools Council that work experience involves working in...

The African Ophthalmology Council: Driving excellence in African eye health

2 October 2025 | Wanjiku (Ciku) Mathenge, Marcia Zondervan | EYE - General

Have you been wondering about how you can impact, or even just understand, the eyecare landscape in Africa from those who experience it daily? Ever wondered about which one body brings all eye health professionals in Africa together, united in...

The meaning of life

1 December 2021 | Peter Cackett | 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...

My Top Five: Instagram accounts to keep your scrolling educational

4 August 2021 | Raisah Owasil | EYE - General, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

There’s no denying that now, more than ever, we are better connected to our electronic devices; 24/7, around the clock. The phenomenon of ‘Zoom’ and ‘Microsoft Teams’ is shaping the future of medical education, national trainee recruitment and conference access....

My Top Five: Ophthalmology podcasts for trainees

7 December 2020 | Yarrow Scantling-Birch | 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...

The bionic eye – behind the headlines

1 October 2016 | Rod McNeil | EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Orbit

Multiple visual prosthetic projects and other vision regeneration initiatives being tested in preclinical and clinical development worldwide illustrate continuing progress and opportunities in addressing profound blindness from hereditary retinal diseases and other causes (Table 1). Three implantable bionic vision systems...

The Global Vision Database

1 December 2015 | Rupert Bourne (Prof), Tasanee Braithwaite, Alex Silvester, Aditi Das, Maria Vittoria Cicinelli | EYE - General

The overall goal of the Global Vision Database (GVD) [1] is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the prevalence of blindness and vision impairment (VI) globally. It is a repository which allows us to assess the causes...

What’s next in retinal imaging? Faster, deeper and full-on

1 April 2015 | Rod McNeil | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - Imaging

Fast-evolving technological leaps are opening the way toward clinically useful ocular coherence angiography, generating 3-dimensional microvasculature maps without intravenous dye injection, as well as whole-eye imaging, handheld patient-operated optical coherence tomography (OCT) devices and, for challenging vitreoretinal procedures, integrated intraoperative...

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