Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology: Enhancing Your Knowledge in Eye Care

Established in 1946, the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology is a prestigious review course hosted by Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School. This renowned program has provided training to numerous young ophthalmologists from around the world and supplemented training for many teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada.

Virtual Online Course in 2023

In 2023, the Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology will be held as a virtual online course, offering a comprehensive four-week program covering the basic and clinical sciences in ophthalmology. The course is open to residents, practicing ophthalmologists, and optometrists.

Comprehensive Curriculum

The virtual course features an extensive range of topics, including:

• Age-related macular degeneration
• Macular hole and cystoid macular edema
• Anatomy and motor physiology
• Amblyopia
• Cataract introduction and management
• Anterior segment and trauma reconstruction
• Binocular vision and sensorial adaptation to strabismus
• Corneal anatomy and physiology
• GDD lecture
• Glaucoma filtration surgery and laser lecture
• Dry eye syndrome and corneal dystrophies
• Embryology of the eye
• Esodeviation, exodeviation, and restrictive strabismus
• Infectious keratitis and conjunctivitis
• Inflammation, trauma, and congenital anomalies
• Pathology of the lens
• Intro to neuro-ophthalmology program and principles
• Keratoplasty
• Medical therapy
• Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery and cataract+glaucoma
• Nasolacrimal disorders and neonatal conjunctivitis
• Normal tension glaucoma
• Optic neuritis and ocular ischemia
• Optics
• Orbit and adnexal anatomy
• Plastics intro
• Orbital imaging and orbital disease
• Overview of efferent visual function and central eye movement disorders
• Paretic strabismus and special forms of strabismus
• Part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of macular diseases, diabetic retinopathy, infectious retinitis, and posterior panuveitis
• Part 1 and 2 of papilledema and IIH, infectious and infiltrative optic neuropathies, hereditary and toxic-nutritional optic neuropathies
• Part 1 and 2 of ptosis, lacrimal, entropion, ectropion, and surgical techniques
• Part 1 and 2 of secondary angle-closure glaucoma, pigmentary glaucoma, exfoliation, and traumatic glaucoma
• Part 1 and 2 of trauma and endophthalmitis, BRAO, CRAO, and BRVO, CRVO
• Neuro-ophthalmology part 2
• Pediatric cataracts
• Pediatric eye exam and strabismus
• Pediatric glaucoma and aphakic glaucoma
• Pediatric retina
• Preparing for OR, phaco step-by-step, capsulorrhexis, nuclear disassembly, fluidics, premium IOLs, FLACS part 1 and 2
• Primary open-angle and primary angle-closure glaucoma
• Principles of genetics
• Randomized clinical trials, epidemiology, and genetics
• Refractive surgery
• Retinitis pigmentosa and inherited retinal disorders
• Strabismus surgery
• Suprasellar and suprastellar
• Tumors
• Uveitic glaucoma, lens-induced glaucoma, and visual assessment in children
• Visual fields parts 1 and 2, nonorganic vision loss, and pupils

Live lectures will be delivered via Zoom, and faculty members will share a wealth of recordings for students to access at their convenience in the online gallery.