Candidate 15     Passed                                                      Centre: Edinburgh
                                                                                                    Date: Part 2, 2001

OSE

1. BRVO with macular edema

  • Will laser help
  • Complication of laser
  • Diagnosis
2. Transposition
  • RE +12.00/+2.00@180 LE +0.50/-1.00@180
  • Spherical equivalent
  • Cause of this post surgically
  • Problems of this patient
  • Treatment options 
3. Gonio – single mirror
  • Name the instrument
  • Draw the ray diagram
  • Name the uses


4. IOL power calculation – 

  • To choose the IOL for ammetropia of –1.00 ; A- 119
  • AL 29,k 38.25,39.25
  • Refraction given- How much of corneal astigmatism is present
  • Print out of IOL calculation given
5. Humphreys 
  • Reliability markers
  • Altitudinal defect
  • In this field which is most reliable 
6. MRI
  • Identify investigation
  • Structures marked
      • o Maxillary sinus
        o Ethmoid sinus
        o Artefact due to tooth filling with a metal amalgam
7. Videokeratoscopy
  • Identify the investigation
  • Which cornea has irregular astigmatism
  • Which of the corneas will have better vision with CL in comparison to spectacles
  • Which cornea has keratoconus
8. Hess chart
  • LE SO palsy with RE IR OA
  • Name the investigation
  • Which law is responsible for the appearance in this chart
  • What is your diagnosis
  • Write down the sequale for this palsy


VIVA

1. Refractive index – definition,
2. Refractive indices of structure in the eye, silicon oil
3. Diffraction - pin hole
4. Snell’s Law 
5. Total internal reflection
6. IOL -three piece, refractive power in air and eye
7. 2.2 pan retinal I/O lens – magnification and back vertex power
8. Lasers

  • Principles
  • Wavelengths
9. Excimer LASIK
10. Aphakia 
  • Management options
  • Problems with glasses
  • Prismatic effects
11. Chromatic aberrations
    • Methods to overcome them
12. Ray diagrams
    • Reflection of glass
    • Refraction through plane glass
    • Convex lenses
13. Iatrogenic causes of myopia

Refraction

1. 15 min for vision, retinoscopy and subjective
2. Asked to do JCC in front of examiners
3. Duochrome in front of examiners
4. Muscle balance for near and distance
5. RE –5.00/0.50@25 LE-5.00@0.25@170
6. BVD - importance and for whom
7. Near vision –Age 60 – be add +2.25 N5 at 40cms
8. Importance of varifocals
9. Focimetry for her glasses – ran out of time

OSCE

1. Left eye with proptosis and dilated episcleral vessels. Was asked to do HERTELS
2. Pupils LE RAPD
3. S/L – corneal guttae and pigments on the endothelium
4. Direct ophthalmoscopy – RE optic atrophy
5. I/O peripheral pigmentation 
6. Cover test – left exotropia with left latent nystagmus
7. Left SO palsy – Parks three step test 
8. Visual fields - peripheral vision with white pin.
 
 
 

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