Paul Sieving, MD, PhD, director of the U.S. National Eye Institute, called the Leader Letter a "significant advance in communicating international needs, opportunities and achievements to a broad audience." This issue reports on the revised ICO Curriculum Guidelines for residency training, our visit to residency programs in Nigeria and other resources that we hope will be valuable to you. Please send me your comments and criticisms of the Leader Letter by replying to this e-mail or sending a note to leader@icoph.org. Thank you very much in advance. – Fritz Naumann, MD, ICO President 2. Revised Curriculum Guidelines for Ophthalmology Residency Training
Prepared by Morton F. Goldberg, MD, and Andrew G. Lee, MD, the "Guidelines and Standards for Education of an Ophthalmologist: A Curricular Outline," lists both cognitive skills and technical skills at the "basic," "standard" and "advanced" levels for each of 14 ophthalmic conditions. I would encourage you to consider if these Guidelines can be adapted to define a curriculum for residency training for your country. You can review the Curriculum Guidelines or download them as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file at www.icoph.org/ed/resgui.html. We are deeply indebted to Drs. Goldberg, Lee and the Task Force for their dedication to this huge undertaking, and the ICO thanks all those who contributed or commented on earlier drafts. – Mark Tso, MD, ICO Vice President and Education Coordinator 3. Council Members Tour Residency Programs in Nigeria
However, there is also significant potential to enhance training through cooperative efforts of the residency programs, Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria, Federal Minister of Health and educational support from outside the country. Those are two conclusions reached by ICO Council members who visited residency programs and met with ophthalmologic leaders and the Minister of Health in Nigeria in late March/early April. Council Member Adenike Abiose, MD, organized the tour and meetings for ICO Officers Fritz Naumann, MD, Balder Gloor, MD, and myself and Council Members Daniel Etya'alé, MD, Hannah Faal, MD, and Akef El Maghraby, MD. We are now working with our Nigerian colleagues to define recommendations and responsibility for short-, medium- and long-term action to be taken. We sincerely appreciate the hospitality and openness of all of those involved and hope that this will be an important first step toward enhancing ophthalmic education and care in Nigeria, West Africa and all of Sub Saharan Africa. – Bruce Spivey, MD, ICO Secretary General 4. Course for Residency Program Directors in Mexico
The goals of the course are to help programs directors to:
For more information, contact Dr. Graue at: egrauew@yahoo.com. - Bradley R. Straatsma, MD, JD, ICO Council Member 5. New Vision 2020 Web Site and Leadership I encourage you to visit the new Web site of Vision 2020: The Right to Sight at www.v2020.org. The redesigned Vision 2020 site offers news of the global initiative to eliminate unnecessary blindness, access to the Vision 2020 tool kit (www.v2020.org/toolkit/start.htm) and suggestions for other ways to support the program. You can also download the latest Vision 2020 newsletter, which reports on challenges facing new CEO Nag Rao, MD, and plans for World Sight Day, October 14, 2004. (www.v2020.org/media_releases/pdfs_latest/newsletters/March_newsletter04.pdf) - Fritz Naumann, MD, ICO President and Advocacy Coordinator 6. Record Number of Ophthalmologists Sit for ICO Basic and Clinical Assessments
This compares to 1097 ophthalmologists who sat for the Assessments in 2003, and is the highest number ever. The Assessments give ophthalmologists throughout the world an opportunity to evaluate and demonstrate their knowledge in the basic and clinical sciences. The 2005 Assessments will be offered on April 7, and the application deadline will be January 31, 2005. For more information, see www.icoph.org/assess. - Peter Watson, FRCS, FRCOphth, Assessments Coordinator, assess@icoph.org 7. More News For more news of the ICO and international ophthalmology and resources for ophthalmologic leaders, see the ICO's Eye Site at www.icoph.org/. 8. Request for Other News and Resources Do you have other news of international ophthalmology or know resources (particularly on the Web) that would be valuable to society leaders? Please let us know at leader@icoph.org. 9. Forward the ICO Leader Letter to your Colleagues: If there are other ophthalmologic leaders you think might be interested in seeing this ICO Leader Letter, please forward this issue to them by clicking on the following link or copying the link and pasting it into a Web browser: 10. Coming in the June ICO Leader Letter: Draft Curriculum Guidelines for Medical Student Education 11. Comments, Change of Address, Privacy Policy, Subscribe and Unsubscribe Send comments and suggestions for the Leader Letter to mailto:leader@icoph.org. You are subscribed as recipient@youraddress.com. Change your address by sending e-mail to: mailto:leader@icoph.org. We do not share e-mail addresses with anyone else. Check our privacy policy at: http://www.icoph.org/ic/privacy.html. To subscribe to the Leader Letter, visit http:/www.icoph.org/news/subscribe.html. To unsubscribe, reply to this e-mail and type “unsubscribe” (without the quotes) as the subject, click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this page, or send an e-mail to mailto:leader@icoph.org. Copyright © 2004 International Council of Ophthalmology. All rights reserved. 
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