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Projectors and Stagefright

1 December 2015 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry
Choosing the correct aspect ratio for a presentation There are several mistakes that are easy to make when using PowerPoint. The most common one I see is the failure of a video to play because the video file wasn’t copied...

Moorfields Eye Charity appoints Dr Louise Wood CBE as new chair

3 June 2024 | Louise Wood, Moorfields, Industry, infrastructure, charity, hospital, grants, Appointments
Dr Louise Wood CBE has been appointed as Moorfields Eye Charity’s new chair and will succeed Mervyn Walker when he steps down from the role in July 2024.

My Top Five: Digital ophthalmology revision resources for medical students

1 June 2022 | | Ophthalmology
Ophthalmology is a broad and exciting field to study but encountering the vast number of topics it contains for the first time in medical school can be a daunting prospect. Building a solid foundation of knowledge in the subject is...

The Gambia-Swansea VISION 2020 LINK: building eye care services and international friendships

1 June 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
History The VISION 2020 LINK between the Sheikh Zayed Regional Eye Care Centre (SZRECC), Banjul, The Gambia and the Ophthalmology Department, Singleton Hospital, Swansea started in 2008 under the guidance of the VISION 2020 LINKS Programme at the International Centre...

Diary from my elective: a Parisian experience

2 December 2019 | | Ophthalmology
The author explains how a research institute’s dedication to multidisciplinary collaboration helped him to discover a passion for academic ophthalmology. The elective aspect to the final year of a medical degree, through its change of scenery and immersion into another...

Patient and public participation shapes biomedical research and access priorities in eye health

1 December 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
Patients, clinicians and clinician-scientists play a valuable role in shaping the future of vision research. Limited funding demands targeted research initiatives that ultimately will shape health policy and practice to secure progress in improving patient outcomes in eye health. This...

The medical student syndrome

1 April 2016 | | Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Emergency Ophthalmology, AMD
It is often said that “a little learning is a dangerous thing,” but being super savvy can’t put us at the brink of harm, can it? Each year as thousands of students commence their medical degrees, they begin a journey...

Macular imagery: observing the visual sensations pre- and post-Jetrea injections

25 September 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
A 63-year-old woman, a professional painter, was diagnosed with vitreomacular traction (VMT) in 2017. She had a history of metamorphopsia, drop in visual acuity (VA) in the left eye (6/6 in the RE; 6/18 in the LE), foveal vitreomacular traction...

The happiness coefficient: Pete’s hidden curriculum Part 5

4 December 2023 | | Ophthalmology
Jeremy: Come on, man, shake your booty! Tonight even Paxman’s out, hoovering up lines of crank off Krishnan Guru-Murthy. Tonight’s the big one.Mark: Jeremy, all rational people agree it’s a truth self-evident that it’s impossible to have a good time...

UKISCRS Open Nominations for Three New Council Members

13 July 2022
The UKISCRS CIO, registered number 1191256, have a vacancy for three members to join the council.

In conversation with Professor David Mackey at RCOphth 2019

23 May 2019
In this video Professor David Mackey talks to Eye News about the Edridge Green Lecture he gave on What colour are your eyes? The genetics of eye colour and colour vision Click the image below to see his answers to...