Blending patient care and academia: the consultant ophthalmologist

The impact of consultant-delivered multidisciplinary inpatient medical care on patient outcomes.

Consultant-delivered care has been shown to improve outcomes for acute medical patients. However, the ideal composition of a medical team to support consultant-delivered care is not clear and little is known about the effect of continuing consultant-delivered care until the patient is discharged. Between December 2011 and April 2012, 260 general medical patients requiring inpatient care were ma...

NCHD emigration crisis and the need for consultant-delivered care.

The sclera, the prion, and the ophthalmologist.

Prions have emerged in the past 5 years as serious transmissible infective agents. Ocular tissue transplantation has come under scrutiny after potential infected tissue was transplanted into healthy patients. In this review we examine the evidence for the risk of transmission of prions after scleral transplantation and explore alternative materials that may be used in ocular surgery.

ACADEMIA AND CLINIC Cross-Cultural Primary Care: A Patient-Based Approach

In today’s multicultural society, assuring quality health care for all persons requires that physicians understand how each patient’s sociocultural background affects his or her health beliefs and behaviors. Cross-cultural curricula have been developed to address these issues but are not widely used in medical education. Many curricula take a categorical and potentially stereotypic approach to ...

The ophthalmologist of the future.

Who are the ophthalmologists of the future? How will the new generation practice? How will they interact with their professional organizations? What part will technology play in their lives and professions? A new paradigm is in place that will dramatically affect ophthalmologists' answers to these questions going forward. Given the uncertainty of our future professional lives, it is vital that ...