Intensive two-day teaching program in ophthalmology

Simulation Surgical Teaching in Ophthalmology.

“Practice makes perfect” is an age-old idiom few can disagree with. Yet in ophthalmic surgical teaching, practice has not had the emphasis it has in other motor skillebased disciplines. Even a well-stocked wet laboratory likely does not have a large quantity of eyes available for practicing, limiting robustness of skill development that could be achieved by frequent repetition. The commonly use...

How can undergraduate ophthalmology teaching be improved?

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Resident physician mentoring program in ophthalmology: the Tennessee experience.

OBJECTIVE To establish a mentoring program to provide resident physicians in ophthalmology with career guidance in practice management and to identify new and creative ways to involve future eye physicians in the legislative and political process. METHODS A multicenter prospective study was conducted of the mentorship experiences of 24 (88.9%) of 27 resident physicians in Tennessee during the...

Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Abstracts 2004

Teaching ophthalmology to the medical student: a novel approach.

1 Physician, Department of Ophthalmology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo UNIFESP São Paulo (SP), Brazil and Visiting Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Chicago (IL), EUA. 2 Physician, Department de Ophthalmology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo UNIFESP São Paulo (SP), Brazil. Funding: No specific financial ...