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Ophthalmology Specialty Training 2024: What's different?

13 December 2023 | | Ophthalmology, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
The 2024 intake for ophthalmology specialty training (OST) has undergone several significant changes in its approach towards candidate selection and assessment. This article provides a comparative analysis, detailing these new measures and comparing them against the previous year's standards. Our...

Embracing assistive technology in the fight against sight loss

10 June 2020 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
The author shares his own experience of sight loss and explains the vital role assistive technology can play in the lives of visually impaired patients. There is no doubt that sight loss continues to be a clear and present danger,...

The art of giving generous grains

3 April 2024 | | Ophthalmology
On the drive home, after a long day of eye screening patients in homeless shelters, I would pass through the boroughs, towns and villages of east London. Stopping at the soup kitchen, I would meet Christian with heavy cataracts, and...

WHO SPECS 2030: a global initiative to strengthen refractive error services

3 June 2024 | | Ophthalmology
Globally, it is estimated that only around one-third of people with vision impairment due to refractive error have received access to a quality pair of spectacles [1]. In recognition that uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of vision impairment...

Report on ‘2024: Artificial Intelligence and the Eye’

3 June 2024 | | Ophthalmology
As the application of artificial intelligence (AI) is brought to the foray of clinical medicine, you can be forgiven for thinking that it is a relatively recent technology. However, researchers and computer scientists have been working on it for many...

Bosch-Boonstro-Schaaff optic atrophy syndrome (BBSOAS) NR2F1 mutation

4 December 2023 | | Neuro-Ophthalmology
An experienced ophthalmologist can make an anatomical diagnosis of childhood visual impairment based upon the surgical sieve, i.e., congenital and acquired. But an ophthalmologist cannot work in isolation to make an aetiological diagnosis – one would require the help of...

Triamcinolone (TA) deposits following subcutaneous injection to treat chalazion

2 August 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics
Chalazia are chronic lipogranulomatous inflammations of the eyelid secondary to a blocked meibomian gland. Whilst most resolve spontaneously, certain chalazia warrant treatment. Options include incision and curettage (I&C), lesion excision, intralesional steroid injections, and botox injections [1]. I&C is usually...

25 years of OCT

1 December 2016 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging
David Huang first described optical coherence tomography (OCT) in 1991, in his seminal paper on the subject in Science. This method developed the work of others on ophthalmic interferometry, which essentially showed that measuring reflected light could be used to...

The 2021-2022 ophthalmology ST1 application process

3 October 2022 | | Ophthalmology
Harry Rosen updates us on what is involved in the current UK Ophthalmology Specialist Training (OST) programme application process. The process of applying to the UK Ophthalmology Specialist Training (OST) programme is constantly changing each year, adapting to the needs...

Pathway innovations to address cataract services post-COVID-19

1 June 2022 | | Cataract and Refractive, COVID-19
Background The demand for cataract services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was already recognised to be high and growing - in the face of an ageing population and reduced surgical thresholds. When added to the growth in demand for ophthalmic...

IN FOCUS - Prevention and treatment of blindness worldwide: the story of ‘VISION 2020: The Right to Sight’

1 April 2020 | | Ophthalmology
The story of blindness and efforts to prevent and treat it cannot be told without going back to the earliest recorded history of blindness. Trachoma was described in ancient Egypt, cataract surgery in India about the fifth century BC and...

A near miss

1 February 2019 | | Ophthalmology, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
A 55-year-old gentleman presented with a ‘blurry patch’ to his left eye which he had noticed for the past two months. The visual acuity with correction was 6/5 in the right eye and 6/6 in the left eye on the...