Health professions students' approaches towards practice-driven ethical dilemmas; a case-based qualitative study.

Background: In healthcare practice, ethical challenges are inevitable and their optimal handling may potentialy improve patient care. Ethical development in medical education is critical for the transition from a medical and health sciences student to an ethical healthcare practitioner. Understanding the health professions students' approaches towards practice-driven ethical dilemmas could harness i the effective ethical development in their medical education.

Eye injuries caused by date palm thorns and leaves.

Purpose: To describe the clinical presentation, management, and outcome of hospitalized patients having date palm tree eye injuries.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of consecutive patients who were admitted to Al-Ain hospital following date palm tree eye injuries between 2012 and 2017. Patients' demography, symptoms and signs at presentation, surgical intervention, visual acuity (VA) before and after treatment, hospital stay, and causes for VA limitation were studied.

Personal protective eyewear usage among industrial workers in small-scale enterprises.

Background: Work-related eye injury causes significant vision loss. Most of these injuries are preventable with appropriate eye safety practices. We aimed to study industrial workers' perceptions of Personal Protective Eyewear (PPE) and its usage in a high income developing country.

Surgical management of pediatric eye injuries.

Background: Eye injury is a leading cause of unilateral childhood blindness. The purpose of this research was to study the management and visual outcome of pediatric eye injuries necessitating hospitalization and surgical repair.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study of children having eye injury that needed surgical repair over the period of 2012 and 2017.

Relationships and boundaries: Learning needs and preferences in clerkship medical environments.

Purpose: Relationship boundaries recognition is an essential element of medical practice. The aim of the study was to assess final year medical students' perceived need for education regarding professional boundaries.

Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study.

Eye Injuries and Related Risk Factors among Workers in Small-scale Industrial Enterprises.

Purpose: We aimed to study eye injuries and their risk factors among workers at small-scale industrial enterprises.

Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Five hundred workers at small-scale industrial enterprises in Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates were included.

Management of infective corneal ulcers in a high-income developing country.

Microbial keratitis is a major risk for corneal blindness worldwide. We aimed to study the clinical presentation and outcome of hospitalized patients having infective corneal ulcers.All patients who were diagnosed as microbial keratitis and were admitted to Al-Ain Hospital during the period July 2011-Dec 2016 were retrospectively studied.

Epidemiology of eye injuries in a high-income developing country: An observational study.

Vision loss following eye trauma is a serious health problem worldwide. The aim of the study was to report the epidemiology of eye injury that requires hospitalization and surgery at a secondary referral center in a high-income developing country so as to give recommendations regarding its prevention.All patients who had an eye injury that required surgical intervention between 2012 and 2017 at Al-Ain Hospital were retrospectively studied.

Globe rupture caused by a camel bite.

Camel bites are uncommon. They are more common during the rutting season where male camels become more aggressive. Herein, we report a unique case of a 25-year-old man who was repeatedly bitten to his face and neck by an aggressive camel that resulted in left eye evisceration, parotid duct, and facial nerve injury.

Informed consent learning: Needs and preferences in medical clerkship environments.

Purpose: Limited information exists regarding students' routine educational needs in support of ethics and professionalism practices faced in real clinical practice. As such the authors aimed to explore medical students learning needs and preferences for informed consent and relevant ethical issues in the clerkship environments.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study using a self-administered, printed survey distributed to final year clinical clerks.

Outcome Analysis of Visual Acuity and Side Effect after Ruthenium-106 Plaque Brachytherapy for Medium-sized Choroidal Melanoma.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report on treatment outcomes for medium-sized choroidal melanoma treated with Ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) plaque brachytherapy.

Methods: A retrospective case series of 28 patients received Ru-106 brachytherapy treatment for choroidal melanoma. The prescribed tumor dose was 85 Gy to a depth of 5 mm.

Ethics teaching in a medical education environment: preferences for diversity of learning and assessment methods.

Background: Ethics and professionalism are an integral part of medical school curricula; however, medical students' views on these topics have not been assessed in many countries.

Objective:  The study aimed to examine medical students' perceptions toward ethics and professionalism teaching, and its learning and assessment methods.

Design: A self-administered questionnaire eliciting views on professionalism and ethics education was distributed to a total of 128 final-year medical students.

An Enhancement-focused framework for developing high quality single best answer multiple choice questions.

Background: The primary goal of any assessment of students is to provide valid and reliable evaluations of students' knowledge and skills as well as provision of accurate feedback to students about their performance. Contrary to best practice guidelines for development of multiple choice questions (MCQs), however, items used within medical schools are often flawed. This disappoints students and discourages examiners from using in-house MCQ databases.

Intraoperative sonographically assisted radioactive iodine 125 plaque brachytherapy for choroidal melanoma: visual acuity outcome.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to present a retrospective series of cases from a single Canadian academic center assessing visual acuity outcomes after intraoperative sonographically assisted iodine 125 ((125)I) plaque brachytherapy treatment.

Methods: The cases of 28 patients (16 male and 12 female; mean age ± SD diagnosis, 62.3 ± 15 years) with choroidal melanoma treated with (125)I plaque brachytherapy using intraoperative sonography between 1997 and 2002 were reviewed.

Long-term visual and refractive outcomes following surface ablation techniques in a large population for myopia correction.

Purpose: To evaluate the visual and refractive outcome for four wavefront-guided surface ablation (WGSA) techniques (LASEK, LASEK flap-off [LASEK FO], Epi-LASIK, and Epi-LASIK flap-off [Epi-LASIK FO]) in a large myopic population.

Methods: This retrospective review included 1000 myopic eyes (spherical equivalent [SE] -1.0 to -8.

Advanced corneal surface ablation efficacy in myopia: changes in higher order aberrations.

Objective: To evaluate the change of ocular and corneal higher order aberrations (HOAs) after wavefront-guided advanced surface ablation (WF-ASA) for myopia using 4 different epithelial management techniques (AA-PRK, LASEK, Epi-PRK, and Epi-LASIK).

Design: Retrospective single centre excimer database analysis.

Participants: Two hundred and forty eyes equally divided between the 4 WF-ASA techniques, matched for mean and range of required spherical correction.

Comparison of antibiotic-only and antibiotic-steroid combination treatment in corneal ulcer patients: double-blinded randomized clinical trial.

Objective: To determine the benefit of early addition of corticosteroids to antibiotics in the treatment of corneal ulcers.

Design: Randomized clinical trial.

Participants: Thirty eyes of 30 patients, over the age of 12 years, with bacterial corneal ulcer confirmed by culture.

Correlation between refractive error, corneal power, and thickness in a large population with a wide range of ametropia.

Purpose: To determine the correlations between mean keratometry (KM), central corneal thicknesses (CCT), and cycloplegic spherical equivalent (SE) in patients with a wide range of ametropia.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of the excimer laser surgery database at the University of Ottawa Eye Institute between 1993 and 2008 was performed. This study included 3395 eyes from 1858 subjects.

Treatment of Knapp Class V superior oblique palsy with contralateral inferior rectus muscle recession.

Objective: To describe the clinical features of patients with Knapp Class V superior oblique palsy (hypertropia greatest across the lower fields of gaze) and to present the results of a contralateral, adjustable, inferior rectus muscle recession procedure performed on these patients.

Design: Clinical, cohort study.

Participants: We retrospectively reviewed a series of 4 cases of superior oblique palsy (Knapp Class V).

Iodine-125 radiotherapy for choroidal melanoma.

The objective was to evaluate the effect of the gender, size, and tumor location at the time of the diagnosis on the regression response of choroidal melanoma following plaque radiotherapy treatment. The paper is a longitudinal prospective study of 28 patients diagnosed with choroidal melanoma at McGill University Health Centre from 1997 to 2002. All patients were treated with episcleral iodine-125 (I(125)) plaque radiotherapy.

Intra-operative echographic localization for radioactive ophthalmic plaques in choroidal melanoma.

The objectives were to evaluate the beneficial effect of intra-operative echographic plaque site localization and to assess the rate of complications of postplaque insertion. This paper is a descriptive study of 48 patients with choroidal melanoma who underwent iodine-125 (I(125)) or ruthenium-106 (Ru(106)) plaque radiotherapy with intra-operative echographic confirmation of plaque placement with the aid of a nonradioactive plaque (dummy) at McGill University Health Centre from 1997 to 2003. Patients' mean age was 63.