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Is ophthalmology still a vocation?

1 December 2018 | | Ophthalmology
People seem to be interested in medicine for different reasons. There does seem to be a spectrum in ophthalmology in which people range from ‘do it for the pay’ all the way to ‘do it for the patients’, with some...

AI breakthrough brings geographic atrophy treatment a step closer

20 September 2021
A team led by Dr Konstantinos Balaskas at Moorfields Eye Hospital Reading Centre has developed a fully automated, deep-learning model (algorithm) that can detect and quantify geographic atrophy using standard optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.

Inequities in access to education for blind and partially sighted children

21 June 2023 | Sight Scotland, RNIB, Education, Children, health policy
Leading Scottish vision impairment organisations call on Scottish Government to endorse new framework for vision impairment education.

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

4 December 2023 | | Ophthalmology
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....

A missed intraocular telescope – an opportunity to re-focus the evidence

4 February 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging
Intraocular telescopes allow magnification of the image so that it would be projected into a larger area of the macula, this makes the central defect caused by dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) smaller. The most common approach is a Galilean...

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Neovascular Glaucoma in a Patient with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia

1 December 2013 |
An 84-year-old Caucasian male attended eye casualty with a four month history of reduced vision, a dull ache and photophobia in both eyes. He had also reported dizziness, weakness and intermittent epistaxis in the nine months prior to presentation. There...

My top five: Trinkets of fact or fiction

3 June 2024 | | Ophthalmology
Trinkets of adult wisdom are often delivered to children alongside warnings of catastrophic outcomes. In this article we present five ‘facts’ about eye health and vision and ask the question: to what extent are these ideas backed up by literature?...

A connected workplace – Part 1

1 December 2018 | | 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
Losing services to external providers is an increasingly common challenge for traditional NHS eye care providers. The external providers tend to have a well connected IT infrastructure, allowing sharing of patient records and imaging data between their different facilities. Working...

Saving sight and changing lives: working with Syrian refugees in Jordan

7 December 2020 | Ophthalmology, Cataract and Refractive, Optometry
Two ophthalmologists from the Emory Eye Center share their three-year experience of treating refugees in the camps in Jordan. Jordan currently hosts an estimated 1.4 million Syrian people who have fled the war in their home country. Cataract & Cornea...

Running a high-volume nurse led intravitreal service using the Sp.eye device – the Stanley Eye Unit experience

2 February 2024 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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...

ChatGPT cannot pass FRCOphth examinations: implications for ophthalmology and large language model artificial intelligence

26 April 2023 | | Ophthalmology
Large language models are generating a lot of hype for artificial intelligence, but can they assist patients and practitioners in ophthalmology? Introduction Deep learning (DL) has emerged in ophthalmology as an exciting form of artificial intelligence (AI) most commonly applied...

Highlights from The RCOphth Annual Congress 2023

25 May 2023 | | RCOphth2023, live updates, birmingham, icc
Check in here for live updates and media from the RCOphth Annual Congress 2023 being held in Birmingham's ICC between 22-25 May.