UK medical schools are failing to comply with the program recommended for ophthalmology, enunciated by the International Council of ophthalmologists (ICO), suggests a survey published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
Among the concerns that the specialty was ousted in university education, the Council urged faculties of medicine to make a topic base and product advice to help them do so.
But a questionnaire sent to 32 schools of medicine, UK, which prompted the 18 complete declarations, shows that, while all include ophthalmology in the curriculum, the amount of time devoted to the object varies from 2 to 12 days. Only four schools teaching all subjects 13 recommended formal education.
No school teaches all recommended clinical skills, 10 only school teaches nine of them, the answers show.
Although the majority of respondents (83%) evaluated formally the clinical skills of students at the end of the ophthalmic course, only seven (39%) required a pass in ophthalmology students pass or fill throughout the year.
The results are similar to survey Australasian, say the authors, although he had more agreement between schools of medicine Australasian Ophthalmology course content.
Their conclusions invite the authors to ask whether there was any point to develop "ideal" programs if they are so widely ignored, and wondering if the faculties of medicine could not be wasting effort by developing their own programs without any reference to those already produced.
They also question whether medical students are taught the skills they need to deal with everyday eye problems are likely to encounter.
"This survey shows that doctors in training are varied ophthalmic trained, most that does not meet the recommended and some ICO standards may receive inadequate training for their future careers," they conclude.
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