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Report: Kabgayi International Ophthalmology Conference 2024
My journey to Rwanda in April 2022 aimed to expand vitreoretinal services, but it also highlighted the need for robust scientific discourse, akin to the UK's ophthalmology culture, and so we seized the opportunity to plan an 'international' ophthalmology conference to coincide with a visit from five of my former UK consultant colleagues.What's trending Dec/Jan 2020
#eyedoctor #banned #visamix-up #HomeOffice #hostileenvironment An ophthalmologist was left stranded overseas when the Home Office refused him entry due to a visa mix-up. Dr Chan was working as a fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital until August 2019, then was offered...Beyond the slit lamp: Unanticipated lessons from my ophthalmology elective
My six-week elective in ophthalmology at Westmead Hospital in Sydney offered much more than technical mastery; it challenged my assumptions about patient care, teaching and the role of curiosity in medicine. Though my passion for eyes was ignited by my...In vivo confocal microscopy, principles and use in keratitis Part 1: Principles
In 1968 Maurice introduced the concept of high powered specular microscopy, it was in that very year that the first scanning confocal microscope was proposed. Marvin Minsky developed the first confocal microscope in 1955 named the ‘double focusing scanning microscope’....Blinking blepharitis has a lot to answer for…
Never ignore the small things’…someone once said. There is no doubt blepharitis is one of the most common eye conditions encountered daily, but with the typical pressures of a busy outpatient department, the management of more obvious, sight-threatening conditions necessarily...
Managing blepharophimosis
The authors present a prospective study of a one-stage technique for managing both telecanthus and ptosis seen in blepharophimosis syndrome. The technique involves carrying out a Y to V medial canthoplasty followed by a frontalis suspension which the authors carry...
Risk stratification to reduce intraoperative cataract surgical complications
The authors prospectively collected data on 1135 consecutive patients undergoing cataract surgery. They were risk stratified according to categories – A (no additional risk factors, 0 points), B (vitrectomy, corneal scarring, small pupil less than 3mm, shallow anterior chamber less...RCOphth Cornea Curriculum Course - 23 & 24 October 2025
The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Cornea Curriculum Course - 23 & 24 October 2025Most UK doctors experiencing moral distress, survey shows
Nearly four out of five (78%) family doctors across the United Kingdom are experiencing moral distress while caring for their patients.Conference Report: Uveitis-North West: Weaving a vision at the Whitworth Art Gallery
“It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed...
