YO News
EUPO Course 2017 in conjunction with the SOE 2017 Congress
EUPO, European University Professors of Ophthalmology, is the organiser of the annual course for residents in training. The courses were established 1988, involving an annual structured sub specialty in ophthalmology. Most of ophthalmology curriculum is covered over a 4 year period to allow residents to get an overview of theoretical knowledge during their
What are the ICO Exams? Report by Ricardo Bastos Amorim, MD, FEBO
What are the ICO Exams? The ICO Exams started in 1994 and last year were performed about 5000 examinations in 130 test centers worldwide (80 countries). You have the Standard Exams (every April): Basic Sciences – 80 MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions), 2 hours duration Optics & Refraction – 40 MCQ, 1 hour duration Clinical Sciences
Educational Grant Report – Yevgeniya Ilyina – Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
YEVGENIYA ILYINA Thank you very much the SOE Educational Committee and Professor Marko Hawlina for this opportunity. I applied at Moorfields Eye Hospital for one month. They confirmed my observership programme at Strabismus, Cornea and Retina services. So I attended Strabismus and Pediatrics service for the first two weeks, Cornea and Retina services both
Report from Kristof Van Schelvergem, MD, FEBO on EBO Exam
Dear colleagues, It has been more than two years now since I took the European Board Examination in Ophthalmology (EBO) and when looking back at it, I never regretted it for a single second. The exam, as I remember it, consists of two parts: a written multiple choice format, which is pretty straightforward and easily