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Host for EGS Fellowship/Travel Grant Program
PART I. General Setting
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is a very large tertiary level teaching hospital
providing specialist services to 3-4 million people. The Ophthalmology department
consists of 20 consultants covering the breadth of ophthalmic specialties. The
glaucoma team is a professorial unit headed by Professor Stephen Vernon and
Professor Anthony King.
We provide a comprehensive service in the management of both, complex medical
surgical glaucoma. Busy glaucoma clinics are undertaken each day by the consultant,
glaucoma fellow, residents and optometrists. The department is well equipped with the
latest imaging devices including retinal nerve fibre layer OCT and anterior segment
OCT. Therapeutic lasers are performed which include SLT, cyclodiode and YAG lasers.
We have 4 ophthalmic theatres housing Zeiss microscopes. High-volume
Phacoemulsification is performed. Modern day Moorfields safe-surgery augmented
trabeculectomy is undertaken as well as tube filtration surgery (Baervedlt and Ahmed).
Paediatric glaucoma is also managed. The EGS fellow will be expected to participate in
the assistance and performance of these procedures.
The department has an active glaucoma research portfolio and the fellow will be
expected to participate. We have various ongoing randomized clinical studies both
locally and nationally.
The EGS fellow will be trained in the management of both medical and surgical
glaucoma. They will be an integral part of the glaucoma team and actively participate
in clinical duties, glaucoma research and surgery.
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PART II
University
Center.
Training
Residents
Certified:
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Number of
residents: 15
PART III CLINICAL ACTIVITY.
Glaucoma clinic.
Number of days
Number of
patients
Glaucoma
surgery days
Per week
Number of
glaucoma
surgeries
Per year
TYPE OF
SURGERY
5 days
Every day
10,000
Per year
Per week
All day
Monday and
Wednesday
500
Trabeculectomy
Deep Sclerectomy
Tube surgery
Mimimally Invasive
Glaucoma devices
Pediatric glaucoma surgery
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
In the future
Yes
PART IV RESEARCH.
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Clinical Research
Yes
Yes
Basic Research
Yes
Fellow will actively participate in the
Research program
Yes
No
Several
Randomised
studies
Alongside the
corneal team
PART V TECHNOLOGY.
LASER
IMAGING TECH.
TONOMETERS
ALT
SLT/other
DIGITAL
FUNDUS
CAMARA
GDx
HRT
OCT
Goldmann
Perkins
PASCAL
ORA
Rebound
Tonopen
Other
PACHYMETER
PERIMETERS
YES
Yes
Yes
Yes
NO
No
Yes
Yes
YES
Yes
Yes
NO
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Humphrey
OCTOPUS
OTHER-
Yes
No
PART VI. ADDED VALUE OF THE CENTER.
Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham provides a comprehensive tertiary level
glaucoma service. It is nationally and internationally recognized for it’s ophthalmic
research and clinical practice. The department manages complex medical and surgical
glaucoma with plenty of learning opportunities.
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