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Comment
. 2021 Aug;35(8):2316-2318.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-01139-9. Epub 2020 Aug 18.

Comment on: Reshaping ophthalmology training after COVID-19 pandemic

Merlin Joseph Hetherington  1 , Obaid Kousha  2 , Ahmed Al-Mansour Ali  3 , Fisto Kitema  4 , Andrew Blaikie  1   3
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Comment

Comment on: Reshaping ophthalmology training after COVID-19 pandemic

Merlin Joseph Hetherington et al. Eye (Lond). 2021 Aug.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

AB is seconded to the University of St Andrews from NHS Fife. The University owns a social enterprise subsidiary company, for which AB acts as an unpaid adviser. The social enterprise business sells the Arclight ophthalmoscope to users in high-resource countries with all profits being used to fund distribution and education exercises of the device in low-income countries via the Global Health Implementation Team at the University of St Andrews. The other authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Arclight simulation eye (ASE).
a Arclight simulation eye constituent parts. b Fundoscopy appearance. c Red reflex appearances (i) leucocoria, (ii) normal and (iii) cataract.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2. Comparing Arclight simulation eyes with Adam, Rouilly digital retinopathy trainer.
a Box plots comparing the individual and b the overall “realism” characteristics of the Arclight simulation eyes (ASE) and the Adam,Rouilly digital retinopathy trainer (AR-DRT). The scores were obtained using a seven-point Likert scale.
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Comment on

  • Reshaping ophthalmology training after COVID-19 pandemic.
    Ferrara M, Romano V, Steel DH, Gupta R, Iovino C, van Dijk EHC; OphthaTraining Group; Romano MR. Ferrara M, et al. Eye (Lond). 2020 Nov;34(11):2089-2097. doi: 10.1038/s41433-020-1061-3. Epub 2020 Jul 1. Eye (Lond). 2020. PMID: 32612174 Free PMC article.

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