Evidence-Guided Ophthalmology

Evidence-guided ophthalmology.

O ne challenge for ophthalmologists entering the 21st century will be to make clinical decisions based on valid information or evidence rather than intuition, hearsay, or peer practice. The practice of ophthalmology has been information based since its inception. However, before the development of modern clinical study design and statistics, ophthalmologists had been applying information from a...

Ophthalmology

This recent addition to the Clio Medica series is very welcome for several reasons. It is almost unique, for the only other histories of ophthalmology in English are a very short essay by Sorsby and an article by Shastid in the American Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. The brevity of Chance's history has excluded a separate bibliography, yet the author has managed to include mention in the text o...

Ophthalmology.

Advising Students Interested in Ophthalmology: A Summary of the Evidence.

Despite an 81% successful match rate among United States senior medical students in 2016 in the ophthalmology match (the San Francisco Match), the average number of programs each applicant applies to increased from 45 to 68 from 2006 through 2016, an increase that likely indicates a perceived increase in the competitiveness of matching into an ophthalmology residency program. This perception is...

Ophthalmology

?Myopia is an error of refraction, due to elongation of the-yeball, and its conditions vary with its degree. When it does n?t exceed four or five dioptres it is of little disadvantage, excePt to those who wish to enter the public services, or whose 0ccupations require particularly good far vision ; but as the amount increases, it causes more and more damage to the 'gnt, until in its high degree...