Direct Ophthalmoscope Case Study
Comparing the Usefulness of the Non-Mydriatic Fundus Camera to the Direct Ophthalmoscope for Medical Education
Summary
Since fundus examination is essential for some cases to evaluate the health of the eye. Ophthalmoscope is a basic instrument for examining the fundus. However, it has many clinical and educational restrictions. Therefore, invention of non-mydriatic automatic fundus camera could benefit clinical practice as well as educational purposes. In this study I focus the light on the ability of 5 medical student to recognize fundus abnormalities and to correctly diagnose it with direct ophthalmoscope and non-mydriatic automatic fundus camera. The results obtained by the direct ophthalmoscope was none of the students visualized the macula. …show more content…
None of the students visualized the macula with the direct ophthalmoscope. But other anatomical structures wear visualized by the students in 9 of 10 cases. On the other hand all students visualized the fundus with the automatic fundus camera. Also 40% vs 100% is the proportion of students that correctly diagnosed diabetic retinopathy by ophthalmoscope and with the automatic fundus camera respectively. In addition to that a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most confident, student’s confidence in visualizing retinal anatomy wear 9.6/10 by the automatic fundus camera vs 6.4/10 by the ophthalmoscope (Figure …show more content…
However, all of these cues wear clearly notes by the students when using automatic fundus camera. That is because of images taken by automatic fundus camera can be magnified so that no single possible informative cues are neglected. Student’s confidence about their diagnosis wear more with automatic fundus camera which provide excellent patient care. Automatic fundus camera can also provide lots of beneficial uses. In educational point of view it allows the educator to extract a lot of informative cusses that make the identification of the disease much easier as well as to review the findings at any time All of the previous benefits encourages eye health care to have it in their clinic for the sake of many purposes including diagnosing and teaching. A proper teaching method is to take a picture with automatic fundus camera and then ask the students to try identifying the same diagnosis with the ophthalmoscope, however, because of the high expenses of the fundus camera, it is not used in most of the educational purposes. in this study only 40% of students had used it
Summary
Since fundus examination is essential for some cases to evaluate the health of the eye. Ophthalmoscope is a basic instrument for examining the fundus. However, it has many clinical and educational restrictions. Therefore, invention of non-mydriatic automatic fundus camera could benefit clinical practice as well as educational purposes. In this study I focus the light on the ability of 5 medical student to recognize fundus abnormalities and to correctly diagnose it with direct ophthalmoscope and non-mydriatic automatic fundus camera. The results obtained by the direct ophthalmoscope was none of the students visualized the macula. …show more content…
None of the students visualized the macula with the direct ophthalmoscope. But other anatomical structures wear visualized by the students in 9 of 10 cases. On the other hand all students visualized the fundus with the automatic fundus camera. Also 40% vs 100% is the proportion of students that correctly diagnosed diabetic retinopathy by ophthalmoscope and with the automatic fundus camera respectively. In addition to that a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the most confident, student’s confidence in visualizing retinal anatomy wear 9.6/10 by the automatic fundus camera vs 6.4/10 by the ophthalmoscope (Figure …show more content…
However, all of these cues wear clearly notes by the students when using automatic fundus camera. That is because of images taken by automatic fundus camera can be magnified so that no single possible informative cues are neglected. Student’s confidence about their diagnosis wear more with automatic fundus camera which provide excellent patient care. Automatic fundus camera can also provide lots of beneficial uses. In educational point of view it allows the educator to extract a lot of informative cusses that make the identification of the disease much easier as well as to review the findings at any time All of the previous benefits encourages eye health care to have it in their clinic for the sake of many purposes including diagnosing and teaching. A proper teaching method is to take a picture with automatic fundus camera and then ask the students to try identifying the same diagnosis with the ophthalmoscope, however, because of the high expenses of the fundus camera, it is not used in most of the educational purposes. in this study only 40% of students had used it