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BCLA announces industry specialist as new chair
An optometrist with more than 20 years’ experience of working in the eyecare industry has been unveiled as the new chair of the BCLA.Daybreak Medical Ltd: Advanced Ultrasound Course in Ophthalmology
25 September 2024
Chair: Mr Tarek El-KhashabFaculty: Mr Peter Good, Mr Atta Hatem and Mr Heinrich Heimann 09:00-17:00 Course Programme- Know your Machine- How to Examine your Patient- UBM in Detail- Axial Lens Measurement- Ocular Tumours in Detail- Opaque Medium- Vitreoretinal Disorders in...
The New Zealand National Eye Centre and the land of the long white cloud
4 October 2023
| Qi Zhe (Henry) Ngoo, Bia Kim, Nazima Ali, Pui Ting Tiffany Ma, Chiya Robert Barrett
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Ophthalmology
Located southeast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean, New Zealand (Aotearoa) is home to five million culturally diverse people. Renowned for its lush nature spanning from unexplored forests to active volcanos and snow-capped mountains, New Zealand has become both...
The writer: publishing my first book as a trainee
1 November 2014
| Sam Evans
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Cataract and Refractive
Medicine is very hierarchical. Indeed, Hippocrates himself laid the foundation of the apprenticeship that is medical training and while it is the noble duty of the boss to pass on information and ask for tasks to be undertaken as a...
ABDO and the CoO confirm 'essential' eyecare only advice
12 May 2020
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COVID-19
The Association of British Dispensing Opticians and the College of Optometrists have confirmed their advice following the announcement from the Prime Minister on Sunday.
Eyelid position assessment using mobile phone photography and simple measurement tool in children
2 August 2022
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Inspired by the difficulty to obtain the gold-standard measurement of eyelid position in children, the authors present a proof-of-concept study of a simple measurement tool paired with digital photography. Patients and their siblings between the ages of one-year to 21-years-old,...
Clinical tutor enjoys rewarding nature of volunteering
Bradford University Clinical Tutor, Benji Chandra, celebrates five years of supporting the needs of homeless people this summer.Driving with the use of spectacle mounted telescopes (bioptics)
The authors discuss the current perspectives of spectacle mounted telescopes (bioptics) whilst driving among patients with visual impairment. The history, design and driving laws surrounding the use of bioptics is discussed in detail. In 1977, William Feinbloom developed a bioptic...Prism cover test variances
1 October 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Inter-examiner, prism, reliability, strabismus
The purpose was to establish the inter-examiner variability and agreement between more than two examiners assessing children and adult patients. The study involved four experienced examiners. The alternate prism cover test (APCT) was conducted at near and distance in 41...
Marsha de Cordova MP champions the role of optometrists during practice visit
Battersea MP joined constituents in a High Street optometry practice to discuss the importance of primary eye care services “commissioned equitably”.The butterfly effect
2 December 2019
| Gwyn Samuel Williams
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Ophthalmology
One of the most fascinating aspects of being a consultant is seeing the workings of the machine that is medical training from the other side. For two years now I have taken part in the specialty recruitment interviews and it...
Space age surgery
1 October 2016
| Gwyn Samuel Williams
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Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, AMD, Emergency Ophthalmology
I asked to do theatre lists at Moorfields as part of my timetable. The medical retina fellow jobs are a bit odd in that the vast majority of the different rotations lack a regular theatre session. This might suit some...