PURPOSE To highlight the four International Curricula of Ophthalmic Education developed by the Task Forces of the International Council of Ophthalmology, published in Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde in November 2006. DESIGN A global perspective of developing educational curricula as tools to improve eye care. METHODS Review of the experience and conclusions of the four internatio...

studying the prominent iranian-islamic scientific texts of middle ages in the field of ophthalmology may play a role in recognizing the science of traditional ophthalmology and its crucial diagnostic and therapeutic points. the most important and reliable resources in the context of ophthalmology belong to iranian scientists. this study collects these references and provides their relative equi...

Historical perspective It is only 50 years since ultrasound was first introduced to medical diagnosis; an astonishingly short period bearing in mind the impact this technique has exerted on all aspect of medical practices, including ophthalmology. In our field, the early pioneers of ophthalmic ultrasound include Mundt and Hughes, Oksala and Lehtinen, and Gernet. Those workers are credited with ...

Recent advances in fields such as tissue engineering, advanced biomaterials and injectable polymers promise to alter the face of anterior segment surgery radically in coming years, according to an international panel of vision scientists. A clinical research symposium devoted to the theme of “New biomaterials and drug delivery in anterior segment surgery” enabled delegates attending the XXIII C...

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...

Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Kongwa Trachoma Project, Kongwa, Tanzania Division of Intramural Research, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institu...

Until about five years ago, the ophthalmologists of Nepal had to struggle very hard to get their research findings published for dissemination among the members of the scientific community of the world. National data relating to the practice of ophthalmology and development of eye care were either not published or were limited to presentations in conferences or to publications in a local souven...

Among the numerous contributions by the Pan-American Association of Ophthalmology (PAAO) to the improvement of ophthalmology in Latin America, it has played an invaluable role in the development of the retina and vitreous subspecialty in the region. The quality of the research published in Latin America demonstrates the development of the retina subspecialty at this region and also the worldwid...

POSTAGE stamps of ophthalmological interest include portrait figures of two practising ophthalmologists, Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (1812-87) and Franz Cornelius Donders (1818-89). Four further portrait figures of scientists who have directly or indirectly contributed greatly to ophthalmology are shown in the stamps commemorating Johannes Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869), Hermann von Helmholtz (...