Fight for Sight – John Lee, The Royal College of Ophthalmologists Award
This primer award of up to £60,000 is on offer from Fight for Sight in partnership with The Royal College of Ophthalmologists in remembrance of past president John Lee. The award is only open for RCOphth members and aims to provide funding to support the initial stages in a trainee ophthalmologist’s careers to equip those
RCOphth recruiting for CESR Assessors
The College wishes to recruit consultants to assess applicants who seek entry to the Specialist Register via the Equivalence route (formerly known as the Article 14 route). This involves reviewing applications from doctors both from the UK and abroad to determine whether their training and subsequent experience is equivalent to that of a recently successful
The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers’ Charity: call for an Ophthalmologist Trustee
The WCSM Charity is a registered Charity in England and Wales. It was formed by the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers in 1998 and operates under a Trust Deed dated 10 September 1998. The Trustees have resolved that the purposes of the charity shall be primarily to make grants to charities with national and international objectives
BOSU Surveillance Study Bursary
With the kind support from The Red Trust and the Ross Foundation, the BOSU is once again offering three research bursaries of £6000 to support ophthalmologists in training to undertake an epidemiological study of a rare eye condition through the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit or the Scottish Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit. The objective for these awards
UK Government Laser Pointers Call for Evidence
The government is issuing a Call for Evidence so that it can gather data and information on high powered laser pointers, and is interested in gathering evidence from the ophthalmic community on patients seen with retinal injury and consequent vision loss. The government is concerned that, in recent years, there have been an increased number of reported incidents