practicing ophthalmoscopy w/o patients

[dk23]

anyone know of a good way to practice ophthalmoscopy (direct and indirect) without having to use real patients? someone once mentioned a model eye for practicing. where can you get one?

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[Andrew_Doan]

anyone know of a good way to practice ophthalmoscopy (direct and indirect) without having to use real patients? someone once mentioned a model eye for practicing. where can you get one?

I don't know where to get one.

Look at this:

http://www.eyeantiques.com/OtherOphthalmicDevices/Skiascopy Model Eye.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8963866&dopt=Abstract

Ophthalmic Surg Lasers. 1995 Sep-Oct;26(5):489-91. Related Articles, Links


A home-made model eye for teaching retinoscopy.

Wessels GF, Oeinck C, Guzek JP, Wessels IF.

Department of Ophthalmology, Inland Eye Institute, Loma Linda, CA, USA.

 

[mdkurt]

take a roll of medical tape (millipore, paper tape, whatever) and tape paper over the sides of the cardboard center. Punch a pupil in one side with a pen, and you have a practice eye. you can draw an optic nerve and vessels on the inside.

 

[r_salis]

Here's another schematic eye -- http://www.starop.com/indirect_ophthalmoscopes/heine/accessories.htm .