Advisor's Blog

Over this next month, we will be exploring how surgeons learn surgical procedures and how suitable medical mission settings are for this sort of learning. Many aspects of how surgeons learn in general is being addressed in an upcoming issue of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today. In addition, we Read more:

When you volunteer, what are the main purposes behind your volunteering? How altruistic are we really? Most of us have multiple layers of interest when we travel and volunteer. Are these agendas or just interests? My partner who has served for 7 years internationally forwarded me a well written Read more:

Dr David Chang shares this article that was published recently in the CRST Europe edition.
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Ranzco has published a review worth reading regarding the role of manual small incision cataract surgery in developed nations. van Zyl L, Kahawita S, Goggin M. Manual small incision extracapsular cataract surgery in Australia. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2014; 42: 729–33. This editorial points Read more:

Dr. David Chang discusses his first attempts at manual small incision cataract surgery in Ethiopia in 2013 with Global Sight director, Dr. Stan Pletcher at the AAO 2013. Read more:

Dr. Hugh Taylor shared these wise tips for being involved in international mission work at our booth at the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

One of the most impressive slides shown during the webinar tonight (Nov. 19th) was this slide at the beginning of Dr. Haripriya's Read more:

The Global Sight Alliance is focused on the many millions of people in developing countries who lack access to eye care. Most prominent is the effort to provide cataract surgery, as cataract is the leading cause of blindness in virtually all these countries. For delivery of high volume, high Read more: