February 2022 Newsletter 

Dear Friends & Colleagues, 

Happy New Year to all of you!
I am delighted to present the latest SOE Newsletter, with interesting articles written by Young Ophthalmologists.  Our February edition has the following;

• YO Webinars Friday 25 March 2022 from 16.00 CET 
• YO General Assembly and Election 30 March 2022  19.00 CET
• YO Clinic Case “Mysterious vision loss in a teenager” about The Diagnostic Hypothesis and treatment methods of the rare disease - Idiopathic Retinal Vasculitis, Aneurysms and Neuroretinitis Syndrome (IRVAN) by  Matteo Forlini MD, Italy.
• YO Interview – by Ayesha Karimi, UK – looking at slit lamp-working skills.
• YO Training in Turkey – where you can find what challenges our colleagues have to overcome before they become practitioner ophthalmologists, what exams are YOs expected to pass before they gain the ophthalmology degree, what is their typical working routine like - an article by Huseyin Baran Ozdemir, MD, FEBO, FICO.
• AAO 2021 Report - by Sila Bal, MD, MPH - Fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Harvard Ophthalmology in Boston, Massachusetts.
• ROP screening tips for Yos – by Leyda Kazimova, Azerbaijan.

We are pleased to share the continuing programme for the SOE Educational Webinars. The webinars are free for participants and cover a wide range of topics with international speakers and experts. Upcoming Webinars will cover  Oncology and Pathology, Electrophysiology plus the Young Ophthalmologists Sessions, Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Glaucoma and Cornea. For full details and to see information on all the other webinars, including registration, please click here for the full webinar programme. To view videos of past webinars, go to https://soevision.org/soe-webinar-library/

I would also like to thank my Newsletter team for their support and encouragement, during these 2 years, wish you a lot of success and happiness. My special thanks to Dr. Ayesha Karimi, UK;  Dr. Atanas Bogoev, Germany.

A 14 year old patient presented with sudden vision loss in the right eye. There was a central negative scotoma in his right eye for 10 days.

‘Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom’, by Sir William Osler. As valuable today, as decades previously. It is reported that in real practice history taking can help a physician diagnose up to 56% of patient problems and this figure rises to 73% with a physical examination.

After a challenging 6 years of medical education in Turkey, graduate doctors need to take the exam known as ‘Specialization Examination in Medicine’ to choose a specialty. This exam is held every 6 months and more than 15,000 doctors take each exam.

Sila is passionate about global community health and will be completing her fellowship in cornea and refractive surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear next year.

As an ophthalmology resident training during a global pandemic, national and international meetings took on a new form. In-person meetings were restricted, so we joined thousands of other eye-care professionals around the world on virtual platforms. While we were grateful for the opportunity to continue conferences in this modified way, we missed the power of in-person meetings.

Retinopathy of premature infants (ROP) is a vasoproliferative disease of the retina of the eyes of premature infants, which occupies a leading position among the causes of childhood blindness and low vision and remains in the focus of attention of ophthalmologists all over the world for several decades.

If you would like to contribute to the SOE YO newsletter, please email secretariat@soevision.org