6 articles
The 14th and 15th Down Under Microsurgical Skills courses were completed in the Sight for Life Foundation Laboratory at Sydney Hospital in January. More than 30 Australian and seven Kiwi first-year vo
After Robbie Williams’ November 2023 concert at the Mission Estate Winery, there were many comments about how good it was to have people back on the east coast after Cyclone Gabrielle. The same applied to Mātai Medical Research Institute’s ‘Image Of The Future’ symposium, which attracted speakers to
My optometrist wife, Amanda, and I were supposed to have spent July helping out at Lions Outback Vision in Broome. I would give the hardworking ophthalmologists a break and supervise the registrar, wh
In late January and early February this year, the University of Sydney ran two microsurgical courses, for the first time requiring first-year RANZCO trainees to attend. Both courses were packed with the usual corneal suturing of pigs’ eyes, EyeSi simulator time, eyelid operations on human cadavers,
The widely-regarded ophthalmic registrar teaching course in Australasia, the Dunedin Ophthalmology Clinical Course (DOCC), was once again held in Dunedin over the first two weeks of November.
In conjunction with the University of Auckland’s Ocular Surface team, led by Associate Professor Jennifer Craig, and their international collaborators, dry eye is being investigated as part of the