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ICO Medical Student Handbook now in five languages

The ICO Medical Student Handbook contains tables of core knowledge and key ophthalmic disorders to assist medical students.

Now in Azerbaijani, Chinese, English, French and Spanish, the Handbook features descriptions and color pictures of the different causes of red eye and the common causes of acute loss of vision. This pocket-sized booklet summarizes the key points in ophthalmology and is designed for medical students to be portable and easy-to-use.

The Handbook is available for download at the links below:

www.icoph.org/pdf/ICOMedicalStudentAzerbaijani.pdf
(Azerbaijani - 1 MB)

www.icoph.org/pdf/ICOMedicalStudentChinese.pdf
(Chinese - 812 KB)

www.icoph.org/pdf/ICOMedicalStudentEnglish.pdf
(English - 830 KB)

www.icoph.org/pdf/ICOMedicalStudentFrench.pdf
(French - 1 MB)

www.icoph.org/pdf/ICOMedicalStudentSpanish.pdf
(Spanish - 812 KB)

The Handbook was created by professors Sue Lightman and Peter McCluskey for the ICO Task Force on Undergraduate Medical Education. Please share this valuable resource with your members and any educators or medical students who may find it useful.

ICO offers educational materials online

To supplement its Principles and Guidelines of a Curriculum for Ophthalmic Education of Medical Students, the International Council of Ophthamology (ICO) offers educational resources for medical students that are referenced in the Curriculum.

The educational materials include:

  • Selected clinical images from the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Ophthalmic Images v.3, donated to the ICO to support education of medical students

  • a series of PowerPoint lectures for medical students contributed by Susan Lightman, FRCP, FRCOphth, PhD, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

There are also other useful resources for teaching medical students available on the Web at no charge.

AAO Ophthalmic Images v. 3

The images from the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Ophthalmic Images Collection CD-ROM, Version 3 are linked to the version of the Curriculum for Ophthalmic Education of Medical Students on the ICO Web site.

Medical students reading the Curriculum can click on the reference to a specific image and see and study that image.

To review all of the images from the Academy referenced in the Curriculum, categorized by disease or subspecialty, follow these links:

Click on the name of a category above to see thumbnails (small versions) of the images in that category. Then click on any thumbnail to see a larger version of that image. If you click on the larger version, you will return the same page of thumbnails.

The complete collection can also be purchased from the Academy.

Lightman PowerPoint lectures

Susan Lightman, FRCP, FRCOphth, PhD, Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, has made PowerPoint lectures for medical students available.

To review or show them, you will need Microsoft PowerPoint or another program that can open .ppt files, such as PowerPoint Viewer.

(The presentation on phacoemulsification is an MPEG movie (.mpg). If you have trouble viewing it, you can download a free QuickTime player.)

Most of the lectures are available in three formats:

  1. The original PowerPoint
  2. A condensed version of the PowerPoint, for faster downloading
  3. A PDF file

Click on the links below to download the presentations:

For use by teachers and students

Richard Parrish, MD
Richard Parrish, MD, former chair, ICO Task Force
on Medical Student Education

"The PowerPoint lectures are intended to compliment, rather than replace, information that may already exist in various teaching curricula throughout the world," according to Richard Parrish, MD, former chair of the ICO's International Task Force on Ophthalmic Education of Medical Students.

"The ophthalmic images offer critical information not covered in the Lightman lecture series," Dr. Parrish said. "They should be useful to both students and teachers, who may direct students to those areas that are particularly interesting or important."

"The ICO deeply appreciates these contributions from the Academy and Professor Lightman," Dr. Parrish said. "By making them available on the ICO Web site, we hope to provide a valuable resource for the ophthalmic education of medical students around the world."

More free teaching resources online

Three other excellent resources for teaching medical students are available on the Web at no charge:

  • the second edition of Case Studies for Medical Students by Mark Mannis, MD, and Mort Smith, MD

  • the Atlas of Ophthalmology, an online multimedia database edited by Georg Michelson, MD, from the University Augenklinik in Erlangen, Germany and Robert Machemer, MD, from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA

  • the EyePathologist, an impressive Web site focused on the anatomy and pathology of the eye developed by Gordon Klintworth, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology at Duke.

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