The proper provision for teaching ophthalmology in the medical schools / by Edward Jackson.

  • Jackson, Edward, 1856-1942.
Date:
[1912]
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    schools may not be ready to meet the requirement. To make up such a deficiency will usually not take many weeks, and it furnishes an excellent exercise for one who is entering on the practical study of physiologic optics. Nothing has been said about the part of the course devoted to the refraction of the eye. In clinical work, in reading, in demonstrations and in quizzing, this should receive the full share of attention. It is so dif- ferent from most of the undergraduate medical course that the preparation for ophthalmic practice may well include special emphasis on it, without conceding that it constitutes the whole, or almost the whole, of the prac- tice of ophthalmology. Briefly to recapitulate: Ophthalmology is a field broad enough to claim all the time and energy that can be given to it by any trained mind. Proper preparation for ophthalmic practice requires as long, systematic and thorough training as preparation for any other profes- sion. Such professional training should be systematic and carried on by responsible institutions, working up to a recognized standard. The supervising and standardizing of the course on ophthalmology will result in the more complete and rounded training of competent ophthalmologists and in the elimination of the incompetents who seek a short cut to professional standing and financial success. It will greatly improve and extend the ophthalmic service of the community. The systematic supervised course that it is now prac- ticable to establish should be based on completion of the ordinary medical curriculum and acquaintance with the 'necessary mathematics and physical optics, and should include 'one year of clinical work in ophthalmology, a careful systematic course of reading, with systematic instruction in special diagnostic methods, ocular path- ology and therapeutics, and the measurement and cor- rection of errors of ocular refraction. Metropolitan Building.