BACKGROUND The use of social media in ophthalmology remains largely unknown. Our aim was to evaluate the extent and involvement of ophthalmology journals, professional associations, trade publications, and patient advocacy and fundraising groups on social networking sites. METHODS An archived list of 107 ophthalmology journals from SCImago, trade publications, professional ophthalmology assoc...

The numbers of consistently first rate journals that survive for a century are few. The numbers of century survivors who have a true international perspective, editorial board and contributing authors are fewer still when they reach 100 years of publication. Such is the British Journal of Ophthalmology. This journal is long recognised for its editorial integrity, its international leadership an...

the international council of ophthalmology (www.icoph.org) is a swiss registered non-governmental-organization (ngo). we aim to build a world alliance for sight to enhance ophthalmic education and improve patients’ access to high quality eye care to preserve and restore vision for the people of the world. the rules governing ngos are such that the international council of ophthalmology (ico) ha...

This page is designed to test your understanding of the concepts covered in this issue and to give you an opportunity to reflect on what you have learnt. The multiple true/false questions were produced in collaboration with the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and the Diagnose This quiz is provided courtesy of the Ophthalmic News and Education (ONE®) Network of the American Academy ...

This page is designed to test your understanding of the concepts covered in this issue and to give you an opportunity to reflect on what you have learnt. The multiple true/false questions were produced in collaboration with the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and the Diagnose This quiz is provided courtesy of the Ophthalmic News and Education (ONE®) Network of the American Academy ...

majority of practical terms in ophthalmology were compiled firstly in muslims` medical dictionary. anatomical and pathological terms such as retina and cataract were improved in this lexicon. mohammad ghazi, in journal of azziae, has considered ophthalmology as an innovation which was firstly introduced by muslim arabs. their attempts promoted this science and retained it the best for a long ti...

Objective: To evaluate SCImago’s top ranked ophthalmology journals, comparing them with the medical and surgical journals. Methods: Data over 20 years was extracted for top-ranked ophthalmology, 5 medical, journals based on SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR). Trends in SJR, self-citations, external citations per document, uncited documents, international collaboration, total were identified. ANCOVA ...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional survey assessed the adequacy of ophthalmology teaching in undergraduate medical education and evaluated the comfort level of family medicine residents in diagnosing and managing common ophthalmic conditions. METHODS Postgraduate year 1 and 2 family medicine residents at the University of Western Ontario were recruited for this study. The main outcome measures w...