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A message from the editors

20 March 2020 | COVID-19
Right now you may be self-isolating, self-learning about Covid-19 and / or selflessly looking after family, friends or folk next door who need supplies, meds or general cheering up, albeit at a distance. Some of us might be redeployed, frantically...

Last UKISCRS webinar of 2020 will be a festive celebration

20 November 2020
The festive webinar will be held on Thursday 3 December at 7pm.

The PMFA Journal - December/January 2019 issue available

10 December 2018 | Research & Development
FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE: Life after medicine by Andrew Burd. / The creation of PlayDoh® models as an educational tool for teaching anatomy of the eyelid by Maria De Bono Agius, Roth M Manners, Fiona R Jazayeri, Christina V Miller and Sally M Webber. AND MUCH MORE...
Diabetic Retinopathy: Screening to treatment book cover.

Oxford Diabetes Library – Diabetic Retinopathy: Screening to Treatment (second edition)

4 February 2021 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This book encapsulates what working in diabetic eye disease is all about: the multidisciplinary team. It takes you through the patient pathway, from screening to grading to management of diabetes, as well as management of eye disease, dealing with all...
180 MCQs for the Duke Elder Examination book cover image.

180 MCQs for the Duke Elder Examination

1 February 2022 | | Ophthalmology
The Duke-Elder Undergraduate Prize Exam is a competitive exam aimed at undergraduates with an interest in ophthalmology. It is amongst the most prestigious undergraduate prizes in the United Kingdom. I would encourage motivated candidates to get their hands on as...
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Human leucocyte antigen association of patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome in Han Chinese

1 December 2022 | | Cornea / External Eye Disease | conjunctiva, cornea, drugs, genetics, ocular surface
This is a retrospective study of the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) polymorphism pattern of cold medicine-induced patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN) (n=33) and 98 control patients recruited between 2016-2017 in Taiwan. Severe ocular complications (SOC) was...

How to consent patients

1 August 2018 | | Ophthalmology
I attended a morning seminar at the recent College Congress in Liverpool about how to properly and legally consent a patient for a procedure. There has been a lot of interest in this of late following the Montgomery ruling, in...

In conversation with Pearse Keane (2018)

1 March 2019 | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Ophthalmology
AI was a hot topic at the 18th Congress of the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA), following the publication of important findings in relation to using this technology in diagnosing retinal disease. We were delighted to catch Pearse Keane,...

Comic leaflets: an innovative method of patient education

1 August 2014 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Nowadays almost everyone has been exposed to comics, especially during childhood. In a way, this is a natural form of progression from children’s story books, which also contain words and pictures. This exposure has helped us to develop the graphic...

The Re-humanising Revolution: Breaking the conspiracy of silence

3 June 2020 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, COVID-19, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Over the last few years, the mental and emotional wellbeing of those who work in medicine has come under scrutiny. The author introduces a new resource. Working in healthcare has always been stressful but never more so than today. In...

Updated MOSUK website

8 January 2024 | Digital, MOSUK, Registration, Anniversary, ophthalmology, Societies
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Medical Ophthalmology Society UK (MOSUK) meeting, which first took place in 1999 at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.