Received: 1/5/09. Accepted: 30/6/09. 1 Ophthalmology Chair Professor, University of Castilla La Mancha. Alicante Ophthalmological Institute (VISSUM). Cooperative Research Network on Ophthalmology (RTICS). Albacete. Spain. 2 Associate Professor, University of Barcelona. Bellvitge University Hospital. Macula and Retina Institute. Teknon Medical Centre. Barcelona. Spain. 3 Section Chief, Ophthalmo...

purpose: to evaluate malpractice complaints against ophthalmologist referred to the iri. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on medical council during years 2003 to 2008. spss software was used for analysis. results: during this period from 1869 cases of malpractice 115 (%6.1) have been related to the field of ophthalmology but in order to some problems we can’t analysis 24 files....

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...

1Department of Ophthalmology, Ohashi Medical Center, Toho University, Tokyo 153-8515, Japan 2Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA 3Department of Ophthalmology, Mater Hospital, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland 4Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-744, Republic of Korea 5Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku Unive...

When Cuba was hit by a neuropathy epidemic two decades ago, Dr Rosaralis Santiesteban was one of the Cuban health professionals who played a key role in its management, as reflected in a recent issue of Seminars in Ophthalmology. She was well prepared for her part: trained in medicine at the University of Havana before completing a residency in ophthalmology and eventually a doctorate in medica...

Ophthalmology Clinics, Turkish Red Crescent Hospital, Konya 42200, Turkey 2Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mevlana University, Konya 42100, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Ankara 06800, Turkey 4Konya Eye Center Hospital, Konya 42100, Turkey Department of Ophthalmology, Konya Training and Research Hospital, Konya 42090, Turkey Corresp...

From the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,* The University of Iowa Center for Macular Degeneration, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; the Department of Ophthalmology, King’s College, London, United Kingdom; The Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom; and the Department of Neuroscience and Locomotion, Divisi...

a Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, United States c Department of Ophthalmology, Blanton Eye Institute, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, United States d Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New Y...

B. Trusko1; J. Thorne2; D. Jabs1; R. Belfort3; A. Dick4; S. Gangaputra5; R. Nussenblatt6; A. Okada7; J. Rosenbaum8; for The Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature (SUN) Project 1Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, New York, New York, USA; 2The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Ophthalmology, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 3Federal University of Sao Paulo, Department of Ophthal...

background: academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. for this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. the main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of ophthalmology in iran from 2007 to 2010 methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...