Browse articles on EyeWorld.org. EyeWorld is the award-winning member publication of ASCRS. The magazine provides news and updates from the Society as well as clinical features in the areas of cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, and practice management. It publishes quarterly with editorial direction from its medical editorial board and staff.
Finding and hiring great employees has always required the ability to balance the “mostly science” of recruitment and the “mostly art” of selecting a finalist. Adding in a pandemic has shaken up the process further.
Looking at the yearlong impact on eyecare in 2020 allows practices to revisit and rearrange priorities to maintain healthy, stable, and durable ophthalmic businesses capable of generating pre-pandemic revenue levels, which many have yet to reach.
Practice communications with patients were already moving toward digital when possible, but the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced reduced in-office time and sought to eliminate physical touchpoints, pushed slow adopters forward.
Predatory open access publishing is a model where “editors” reach out to researchers who have published work available online and offer them the opportunity to submit an article for their journal that often has little to do with the writer’s field or is vague enough to almost make sense. The catch is the publication fee.
2020 was supposed to be the year ophthalmologists highlighted all of the advances in cataract and refractive surgery and the patients who benefited from advanced technology. Then, in March 2020, the world was turned upside down. Chief Medical Editor Eric Donnenfeld, MD, reflects on this and looks forward.
The ASCRS Foundation announced Geoff Tabin, MD, and Sanduk Ruit, MD, as the 2021 Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award winners. Endowed by a generous gift from David and Victoria Chang, the ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award recognizes outstanding humanitarian work with a focus on cataract blindness and disability.
Achieving competency in cataract surgery is an essential component of ophthalmology residency training. This ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club took a look at a paper by Liebman et al. that evaluates quantification of the resident cataract surgery learning curve and identification of the case threshold at which residents experience marginal educational benefit.
OCT is a quick and non-invasive imaging modality with a high sensitivity in diagnosing macular conditions. The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed a paper by Leung et al. that analyzed a cases series to evaluate the utility of macular OCT in cataract surgery preop assessments.
The ASCRS/EyeWorld Journal Club reviewed this large, retrospective, non-comparative case series by Leccisotti and Fields that evaluated the incidence, clinical course, and prognosis of DLK in patients undergoing low-energy femtosecond LASIK in combination with sterile techniques to limit interface contamination.
The ASCRS Master Class in Refractive Surgery, 20/Happy in 2020, will be available for purchase as a nine-module digital set eligible for 18 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Recordings will also remain available through the year for attendees who registered for the live program.