PURPOSE To test the validity and reliability of a new tool for assessing residents' competence in ophthalmic surgery. Changing paradigms of ophthalmic education in the United States have influenced worldwide ophthalmic education and necessitated new methods of assessing resident competence. Accordingly, a new tool for assessing residents' competence in ophthalmic surgery (phacoemulsification) t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To determine which skills are most important to clinicians and how they correlate with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies. PATIENTS AND METHODS A descriptive analysis to test four hypotheses: specific skill sets are likely to be important/mandatory for residents to obtain during training; comprehensive and subspecialist ophthalmo...

The French Ophthalmology Society (SFO) elected as its annual reporter E. Hartmann on "Radiography in ophthalmology. A clinical atlas" (1936), then H. Fischgold et coll. (1966) for "Neuroradiological exploration in ophthalmology" and, for 1996, the author of this article, for "Imaging in ophthalmology," the 3rd phase in this 30 year cycle, due to chance and the need for the development of X-rays...

1 Departament of Ophthalmology, Hospital of the Armed Forces Lisbon, Azinhaga dos Ulmeiros, Paço do Lumiar, Lisbon, Portugal 2 Department of Retina and Vitreo, Institute of Ophthalmology Dr. Gama Pinto, Lisbon, Portugal; IRL – Institute of Retina of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. 3 Departament of Ophthalmology, Hospital of the Armed Forces, Lisbon, Portugal; Department of Ophthalmology, Hospital of ...

Gordana Sunaric-Mégevand1*, Wagih Aclimandos2, Catherine Creuzot-Garcher3, Carlo-Enrico Traverso4, Anja Tuulonen5, Roger Hitchings6, Danny G.P. Mathysen7,8,9 Clinical Research Center Rothschild Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; King’s College Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom; University of Burgundy, Department of Ophthalmology, Dijon, France; Clinical Oculistica, Dep...