Ophthalmic Education:

Other Educational Programs

On this page:

• Educational programs for ophthalmologists
  
  
• Atlas of Ophthalmology on the Web
  
  
• ICO International Clinical Guidelines updated

Educational programs for ophthalmologists

The Internal Council of Ophthalmology will feature on this page other educational programs for ophthalmologists (in addition to meetings and courses) offered by members of the International Federation of Ophthalmological Societies (IFOS) and others.

Please let us know of programs, particularly those that can be accessed online, that we may want to highlight.

Atlas of Ophthalmology on the Web

The ICO has endorsed the Atlas of Ophthalmology - Multimedia Online Database Ophthalmology (MODO), an online multimedia database edited by Robert Machemer, MD (Durham, USA) and Georg Michelson, MD (Erlangen, Germany).

A helpful learning tool for ophthalmologists and students worldwide, the Atlas makes photographs related to more than 1000 ophthalmic diagnoses available through the Internet free of charge.

ICO International Clinical Guidelines updated

Three of the International Clinical Guidelines approved by the International Council of Ophthalmology in Buenos Aires in July, 2001 have been updated:

• Cataract (Initial evaluation)
  
  
• Age-related Macular Degeneration (Initial and follow-up evaluation)
  
  
• Age-related Macular Degeneration (Management recommendations).

The guidelines were defined as part of implementation of international ophthalmology's Vision for the Future, partly in response to comments from leaders of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness that such guidelines would be extremely useful in implementation of the VISION 2020: The Right to Sight initiative.

Comments are welcome.

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Also see:

• Congresses and Meetings
  
  
• ICO Ophthalmic Education Programs