Beyond the Clinic: Essential Career Skills for Ophthalmologists

Section I: "Me, myself, I": Preparation of CV: Interview Skills;
Assessment/Appraisal;
Section II: "Clinical Research: First Steps": Study
Prerequisites: Funding issues; The literature search; The ethics
application; Study Requisites: Capturing information; data
recording; questionnaires; data storage; maintenance of
confidentiality; patient consent form; patient information;
Section III: "Clinical Research: Second Steps": Descriptive
Statistics; Means, dispersion measures, correlation, graphs;
Inferential Statistics; Hypothesis tests, power; types of data;
sample size; confidence intervals; Basic Epidemiology; Health
Economics; Cost effectiveness; Section IV: "Assessing and
Assessment": Critical Appraisal; Reading the journals; Clinical
Audit;
Section V: "The Written Word": The Absolute Basics; Elementary
English grammar; common 'howlers'; English as a foreign
language; US English spelling and usage; The Meeting Abstract;
Structured abstract only, what to avoid; what to include;
Writing for Journals; Authorship; which journal? impact factors;
the editorial process; tips for dealing with editors and
editorial staff; proofs and proof reading; The Research Letter
and Case History; Purpose; what to avoid; what to include;
Academic Correspondence; Purpose; what to avoid; what to
include; The Journal Article; The introduction; the methods; the
results; the discussion; the conclusion; the references; tables;
figures; acknowledgements; The Poster; Not just the written
word; principles of graphic design; talking about your poster;
handouts;
Section VI: "The Spoken Word": Presentation Skills; Speech and
mannerism; the audience; microphones, lecterns and lights;
Lecturing skills; Timing, involving the audience, questions and
answers, handouts and notes; Use of Audiovisual Aids; The flip
chart; the overhead projector and transparencies; slide
projection; videos; laptop presentations; laser pointers;
Section VII: "Miscellania": Appendices; Useful addresses;
contacts; websites; further reading, proof reading marks