BACKGROUND With the advent of general practitioner fundholding, there has been growth in outreach clinics covering many specialties. The benefits and costs of this model of service provision are unclear. AIM A pilot study aimed to evaluate an outreach model of ophthalmic care in terms of its impact on general practitioners, their use of secondary ophthalmology services, patients' views, and c...

Operative practice using surgical simulators has become a part of training in many surgical specialties, including ophthalmology. We introduce a virtual reality retina surgery simulator capable of integrating optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans from real patients for practicing vitreoretinal surgery using different pathologic scenarios.

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Great things come in small packages. So often in life, truly great achievers go about their work never knowing their contribution is HUGE! Milagros is one of these people. Milagros has been instrumental in developing ophthalmic training programs both nationally and internationally all of her adult life. Millie as she is nicknamed graduated from Bayamon District Hospital School of Nursing in Bay...

T he ECWA Eye Hospital in Kano, Nigeria, is a mission hospital started by Dr Hursch, an American ophthalmologist, in the early 1940s. Although there are no surviving records from the time of Dr Hursch, I would venture to say that his practice of ophthalmology in Nigeria was not much different from his practice in America. Since the cutting edge tools of his day were loupes, and a small set of i...

In this issue of IOVS, Ambati and Cahoon 1 provide thoughtful suggestions for increasing the number and success of medical doctors (MDs) who run active research programs. My own observations over the past 2 decades concur with those of Ambati and Cahoon: our current Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) has failed to provide sufficient numbers of physician/scientists to assure that importan...

BACKGROUND Training of pediatric residents is a dynamic process which should be changed as the nature andepidemiology of pediatric diseases change. In this study, we compared the training program of the pediatric residentswith the disorders of the pediatric patients who had referred to pediatric offices. METHODS The study was conducted in pediatric offices in Shiraz, South of Iran. The main c...