Teaching eye pathology
This month's microscopy session was a little different... Simon from the Royal Veterinary College brought eyes from an elephant and a rhinoceros for comparison with our usual human eyes. He's kindly provided some images which are at the end of this post. I guess it's no surprise that rhinoceros sclera is substantially thick (after all,… Continue reading Microscopy June 2018
Quiet session this month, possibly because of it being busy with the recent ARVO meeting, the ECVO meeting, and the upcoming RCOphth Congress. Still, we chatted about a fair range of eye pathology topics yesterday, from rare corneal dystrophies to ocular trauma to the value of deeper sections. Here are a few of the cases… Continue reading Microscopy May 2018
No microscopy teaching this month, because I was hosting the British Association for Ophthalmic Pathology meeting. For this post, I'm going to reflect a bit on how I ran the meeting, in case future meeting organisers find my thoughts useful. This isn't a comprehensive "How to organise an academic conference" post, just some random thoughts… Continue reading Post meeting notes
No teaching session this month - just as well, with the BAOP meeting coming up and arrangements to make! There was some interest in a retinal photo I shared on Twitter yesterday, so I'm taking the opportunity to talk a little about retinal histology here. The image I originally tweeted was of retina from an… Continue reading Retinal histology
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