Teaching standardization 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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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 ...

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Digital Rectal Examination Standardization for Inexperienced Hands: Teaching Medical Students

Objectives. To standardize digital rectal examination (DRE) and set how it correlates with the comprehensive evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Methods. After scaled standardization of DRE based on fingertips graphical schema: 10 cubic centimeters-cc for each fingertip prostate surface area on DRE, four randomly selected senior medical students examined 48 male patients presenti...