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ICO/IFOS Presentations, Guidelines and Documents for Downloading

On this page:

• How to download
  
  
• New downloads and revised documents
  
  
• Slide presentations about the ICO/IFOS
  
  
• Slide presentations on prevention of blindness
  
  
• Documents on prevention of blindness and VISION 2020
  
  
• ICO guidelines, standards, curricula, and reports
  
  
• About the ICO/IFOS and its programs

How to download

On this page, you can download slide presentations and other information about the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) and its parent body, the International Federation of Ophthalmologic Societies (IFOS), as well as guidelines, standards, curricula and reports issued by the ICO.

To download, just click on the names of the files in the listings below. The size of the files is listed in parentheses.

The slides are PowerPoint (.ppt) files, and the documents mostly PDF files. (To read and print the PDFs, you can download a free reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)

Updates to these documents and new documents will be available from this page, with changes noted immediately below.

New downloads and revised documents

We have added the following downloads to those orginally available:

• icocurricpara.pdf: new draft curricula for education of allied eye care providers (368 KB)
  
  
• icocurriccme.pdf: new guidelines for continuing medical education in ophthalmology (244 KB)
  
  
• WHOresolutionEB117R4.pdf: WHO resolution EB117.R4 on "Prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment" to be considered at the 59th World Health Assembly, scheduled May 22 to 27 in Geneva (16 KB)

Also see other new slides and documents on prevention of blindness and VISION 2020.

Slides about the ICO/IFOS

• icoifos.ppt: ICO/IFOS and its primary programs (15 slides - 134 KB)
  
  
• icoifosshort.ppt: brief overview of the ICO/IFOS (8 slides - 110 KB)
  
  
• icoifoslong.ppt: overview of the ICO/IFOS with details on each program (25 slides - 199 KB)

Slides on avoidable blindness

• challenge.ppt: The Challenge: Avoidable Blindness and Visual Impairment (data from WHO, 11 slides - 625 KB)
  
  
• IABCformoh.ppt: "Why Blindess Prevention Needs Our Attention," a PowerPoint slide presentation designed for ministers of health (744 KB)

Documents on prevention of blindness and VISION 2020

• WHOresolutionEB117R4.pdf: WHO resolution that calls for increasing support for prevention of blindness and visual loss (16 KB)
  
  
• VISION2020.pdf: A short background document on why government support for prevention of blindness is critical: (768 KB)
  
  
• whofactsheet.pdf: "Magnitude and causes of visual impairment - No cause for complacency," a WHO Factsheet (572 KB)
  
  
• VISION2020Q&A.pdf: Questions and Answers on VISION 2020 (708 KB)
  
  
• povertyandblindness.pdf: Poverty and Blindness: an executive summary of a survey of the literature. (432 KB)
  
  
• ExecutiveSummary.pdf: Executive Summary of the recent VISION 2020 "State of the World's Sight" report

ICO Guidelines, Standards, Curricula, and Reports

• icocurricres.pdf: ICO Guidelines and Standards for Education of an Ophthalmologist: A Curricular Outline (365 KB)
  
  
• icocurricmed.pdf: Draft ICO Principles and Guidelines of a Curriculum for Ophthalmic Education of Medical Students (2006 - 219 KB)
  
  
• icocurricpara.pdf: new draft curricula for education of allied eye care providers (368 KB)
  
  
• icocurriccme.pdf: new guidelines for continuing medical education in ophthalmology (244 KB)
  
  
• icovisionfordriving.pdf: 2006 ICO Report on "Vision Requirements for Driving Safety" (394 KB)
  
  
• icovisualstandards.pdf: 2003 ICO resolution/report on "Visual Standards - Aspects and Ranges of Vision Loss" (205 KB)
  
  
• icoresearchagenda.pdf: ICO "Research Agenda for Global Blindness Prevention" (2003), which has been endorsed by WHO (257 KB)
  
  
• visionforthefuture.pdf: Vision for the Future: International Ophthalmology Strategic Plan to Preserve and Restore Vision (2001 - 1.2 MB)

About the ICO/IFOS and its programs

• icoprograms06.pdf: A list of ICO/IFOS programs, initiatives and services, with a brief description of each (eight pages - 203 KB)
  
  
• icoprogramlinks06.pdf: A two-page list of ICO programs and initiatives, with links to the relevant sections of the Web site (141 KB)
  
  
• ifosnewsletter05.pdf: 2005 IFOS/ICO Newsletter (designed for printing and local distribution)
  
  
• ifosbenefits.pdf: Benefits of membership in IFOS (55 KB)
  
  
• ifosapplication.pdf: Application for membership in IFOS (PDF file - 63 KB)
  
  
• ifosapplication.doc: Application for membership in IFOS (.doc file - 32 KB)

For updates to these documents and additions, check back on this page.

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Also see: ICO initiatives in ophthalmic education