Learning styles and the prospective ophthalmologist.

Purpose: Understanding the learning styles of individual trainees may enable trainers to tailor an educational program and optimise learning. Surgical trainees have previously been shown to demonstrate a tendency towards particular learning styles. We seek to clarify the relationship between learning style and learned surgical performance using a simulator, prior to surgical training.

Safety of nondominant-hand ophthalmic surgery.

Purpose: To establish the safety of nondominant-hand simulated intraocular surgery.

Setting: Horizon Suite Simulation Centre, South Devon Foundation NHS Trust, Devon, United Kingdom.

Design: Cohort study.

Can virtual reality simulation help to determine the importance of stereopsis in intraocular surgery?

Aim: To establish the effect of acute loss of stereopsis on simulated intraocular surgical performance.

Methods: This study was performed using the EYESi ophthalmic surgical simulator. Thirty junior doctors with no previous ophthalmic surgical experience were enrolled and distance visual acuity (Snellen), near visual acuity and stereoacuity (Frisby) were recorded.

Effect of distraction on simulated anterior segment surgical performance.

Purpose: To determine the effect of distraction on anterior segment surgical performance using a virtual reality simulator in expert and novice surgeons.

Setting: Horizon Suite Simulation Centre, South Devon Foundation NHS Trust, Devon, England.

Design: Cohort study.

A novel technique of rescuing capsulorhexis radial tear-out using a cystotome.

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Purpose: To demonstrate a capsulorhexis radial tear out rescue technique using a cystotome on a virtual reality cataract surgery simulator and in a human eye. PART 2:

Method: Steps: When a capsulorhexis begins to veer radially towards the periphery beyond the pupillary margin the following steps should be applied without delay. 2.

Ophthalmic manifestations of giant cell arteritis.

This article reviews the ophthalmic manifestations of giant cell arteritis. An overview of giant cell arteritis as a disease spectrum is presented with special emphasis on the ophthalmic involvement.

Assessment of fatigue in intraocular surgery: analysis using a virtual reality simulator.

Aim: To determine the effect of fatigue on intraocular surgical performance using a virtual reality simulator.

Methods: Seven experienced ophthalmic surgeons were recruited. The first set of data collection was immediately before a live theatre session.

A novel capsulorhexis technique using shearing forces with cystotome.

Purpose: To demonstrate a capsulorhexis technique using predominantly shearing forces with a cystotome on a virtual reality simulator and on a human eye.

Method: Our technique involves creating the initial anterior capsular tear with a cystotome to raise a flap. The flap left unfolded on the lens surface.

Interinstrument variability in Hertel-type exophthalmometers.

Purpose: To investigate variability in measurements of axial globe position taken with different exophthalmometers of the same style and manufacturer by the same observer.

Methods: In this small clinical study, 10 Hertel-type mirror exophthalmometers were used to measure the degree of exophthalmos of a plastic head. The deepest points on the lateral orbital margins were marked to ensure accurate placement of the instrument.