Firstly, we would like to thank for your time and interest, as well as for your compliments to our article entitled “Multicentric Medical Student Profile and Their Perspectives About Ophthalmology Education”.(11 Rohrbacher I, Haddad LH. Satisfação de pacientes submetidos à cirurgia refrativa de PresbiLASIK. Rev Bras Oftalmol. 2017;76(4): 190-3.)
With respect to students' perspective about ophthalmology education, 95.9% of them considered it relevant to their training as general practitioners. However, only 31% of them feel confident to treat patients with eye disorders.(22 George MR, Shah RA, Hood C, Krueger RR. Transitioning to optimized correction with the WaveLight ALLEGRETTO WAVE: case distribution, visual outcomes, and wavefront aberrations. J Refract Surg. 2010;26(10):S806-13.) Articles such as those by Quillen(33 Rouimi F, Ouanezar S, Goemaere I, Bayle AC, Borderie V, Laroche L, Bouheraoua N. Presbyopia management with Q-factor modulation without additive monovision: One-year visual and refractive results. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2019;45(8):1074-83) (mentioned by you) and Lippa(4) substantiate and validate our results, as they evidence gaps in undergraduate ophthalmology education, discuss the reasons behind this issue and offer suggestions to improve it.
We believe that Medical Academic Leagues are an important type of student organization, since they link the gap between traditional education and students' need to deepen in their topic of interest. Accordingly, these leagues allow students to take an active stance in their pursuit of knowledge and to participate in scientific projects of their interest, which can both enhance traditional academic learning and allow students to add other disciplines of choice to their program. Therefore, we believe that academic leagues can be an outstanding tool for medical education given the aforementioned circumstances.
Referências
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1Rohrbacher I, Haddad LH. Satisfação de pacientes submetidos à cirurgia refrativa de PresbiLASIK. Rev Bras Oftalmol. 2017;76(4): 190-3.
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2George MR, Shah RA, Hood C, Krueger RR. Transitioning to optimized correction with the WaveLight ALLEGRETTO WAVE: case distribution, visual outcomes, and wavefront aberrations. J Refract Surg. 2010;26(10):S806-13.
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3Rouimi F, Ouanezar S, Goemaere I, Bayle AC, Borderie V, Laroche L, Bouheraoua N. Presbyopia management with Q-factor modulation without additive monovision: One-year visual and refractive results. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2019;45(8):1074-83
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
05 Feb 2021 -
Date of issue
Nov-Dec 2020
History
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Received
2 June 2020 -
Accepted
14 Oct 2020
