BACKGROUND This cross-sectional survey assessed the adequacy of ophthalmology teaching in undergraduate medical education and evaluated the comfort level of family medicine residents in diagnosing and managing common ophthalmic conditions. METHODS Postgraduate year 1 and 2 family medicine residents at the University of Western Ontario were recruited for this study. The main outcome measures w...

We screened 46 ophthalmology journals to identify the most frequently cited articles using the Science Citation Index Expanded (1975 to 2006). The 100 most-cited articles were published in 13 journals, most in the Archives of Ophthalmology (n = 30), followed by Ophthalmology (n = 27) and the American Journal of Ophthalmology (n = 11), and originated from 10 countries, led by the United States (...

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Submit your manuscript here: http://www.dovepress.com/clinical-ophthalmology-journal Clinical Ophthalmology is an international, peer-reviewed journal covering all subspecialties within ophthalmology. Key topics include: Optometry; Visual science; Pharmacology and drug therapy in eye diseases; Basic Sciences; Primary and Secondary eye care; Patient Safety and Quality of Care Improvements. This ...

AIM To evaluate the quality of reporting of all diagnostic studies published in five major ophthalmic journals in the year 2002 using the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) initiative parameters. METHODS Manual searching was used to identify diagnostic studies published in 2002 in five leading ophthalmic journals, the American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO), Archives of Op...

AIM To assess the sample sizes used in studies on diagnostic accuracy in ophthalmology. Design and sources: A survey literature published in 2005. METHODS The frequency of reporting calculations of sample sizes and the samples' sizes were extracted from the published literature. A manual search of five leading clinical journals in ophthalmology with the highest impact (Investigative Ophthalmo...

Department of Ophthalmology, National University Hospital, Singapore Glaucoma Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore Glaucoma Research Unit, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Montreal Glaucoma Institute, Montreal, Canada National Institute for Health Research, Biomedical Research Centre for Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, ...

1 Department of Neuroscience, University Federico II, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai First People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China 3Department of Ophthalmology, United Christian Hospital and Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Hong Kong 4Department of Ophthalmology, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Objectives To investigate the current undergraduate ophthalmology curricula provided by the UK medical schools, evaluate how they compare with the guidelines of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) and International Council for Ophthalmology (ICO), and determine the views of the UK ophthalmology teaching leads on the future direction of the curriculum. Methods A cross-sectional que...

Most of us who have been pediatric ophthalmologists for many years cannot help but notice the significant trends that have occurred in the number of residents choosing this field to practice. In 1994, 42 of 43 fellowship positions were filled. In 1997, only two fellowship positions were not filled. However, by 1999, the match rate slipped to the current level with 11 of 38 fellowships remaining...