This series of multiple choice questions is based on the textbook Common Eye Diseases And Their Management (1985), also from Springer-Verlag. The questions have been grouped to fit in with the chapter headings in the latter. Many of the questions are supported by expanded answers but further information should be sought in the textbook. The format of the questions has been arranged so that the number of true or false answers varies and we have taken pains to eliminate the ambiguities which tend to creep into multiple choice question papers. In compiling these questions, we have attempted to incorporate a number of key facts and it will be seen that these have occasionally been repeated for emphasis. A surprisingly large amount of information is contained in questions and answers, and simply reading through both can be a useful learning experience in itself. The questions have been aimed at the medical student level but it is hoped that they may be of some value to general practitioners outside ophthalmology and perhaps also to postgraduates. The computerised Kuder-Richardson reliability index, which measures the consistency of a student's perform ance, has shown these questions to be reliable in assessing a students' knowledge. A sample of these questions has been tested in another medical school and we understand that students' marks there equate well with the results from essay questions.

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Nicholas Galloway completed his medical training in Cambridge and Edinburgh and began his Ophthalmological training at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and subsequently at Moorfields Eye hospital in London. His MD thesis was on Electrodiagnosis and the Eye. He is the author of "Ophthalmic Electrodiagnosis" and initiated, with the help the department of Medical Physics, the Electrodiagnostic Clinic in Nottingham. He has written papers on general Ophthalmology and served as examiner for FRCS at the Royal College of Surgeons England. He is a past President of the European Association for Vision and Eye Research and past Master of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress. After retirement from active practice in 2003 he took up chairmanship of the local charitable society for the Blind. Winfried Amoaku is an Associate Professor/Reader in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Nottingham, and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at QMC, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. After graduating from the University of Ghana Medical School, he undertook his Ophthalmology training in the Northern Ireland Training Programme, Birmingham, and Yorkshire Regional Training Programme. This was complemented with a Medical Retina Fellowship training in University Hospital of Ghent (UZG). He received a PhD from the Queen's University of Belfast for his research on the 'effects of ionising radiation on the eye'. His subspecialty interest is medical retina diseases and uveitis. His research complements his clinical practice, and focuses on the occurrence, pathogenesis and treatments of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other retinal vascular diseases. He has advised NICE on previous HTAs in retinal disease, as well as DH and Horizon Scanning. He has also served on ad hoc Advisory Boards of different pharmaceutical companies on different aspects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic macular oedema, non-infectious uveitis, and retinal vein occlusion. Hehas been the University of Nottingham Teaching Lead for Ophthalmology from 1995 to date, and is currently Chair of the Dermatology Ophthalmology and ENT (DOE) Management Committee, and Chair of Clinical Phase 2 (Penultimate Year) Curriculum Management Committee. He was member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Macular Society (2005-15). He previously served the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) in different positions, including Examiner (in different examinations, and Senior Examiner for the Duke-Elder Undergraduate Prize Examination), Chair of the Medical Retina Service Provisions Subcommittee, Vice-President and Chair of the Scientific Committee, and Acting President, and contributed to several College guidelines. He currently serves as a GMC Associate, Appeals Panel. Andrew Browning is a consultant ophthalmologist in Newcastle upon Tyne. He undertook his training in Southampton, Nottingham and Moorfields Eye Hospital. While in Nottingham, he obtained a PhD for research into gene expression during ocular angiogenesis with particular relevance to age related macular degeneration. (AMD) He specialises in medical retinal disorders such as AMD, retinal vascular diseases and diabetic retinopathy and also has sub specialist interests in inherited retinal dystrophies and ocular electrophysiology. Peter Galloway continues his role as a Consultant Ophthalmologist at St James University Hospital, Leeds, with over 18 years experience as a consultant with a clinical / surgical interest in glaucoma. He obtained his medical degree at the University of Newcastle, and started his training in Ophthalmology in Norwich and Manchester, then as a registrar in South West UK, followed by a glaucoma fellowship at the Vancouver Eye Care centre, British Columbia. At Leeds, where he maintains an interest in complex glaucoma surgery and cataract surgery, he has helped to develop virtual clinic services to help monitor patients with glaucoma as efficientlyas possible.

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This is another addition to Springer-Verlag's collection of multiple choice question booklets. It aims to provide students with examples of questions they are likely to face in examinations, as well as with an important method of revision. Simply reading MCQs can offer an effective learning process, too, especially if enough trouble is taken to analyse the questions in each case. The level of the questions is wide-ranging, so that not only the medical student sitting examinations, but also the postgraduate seeking a useful revision source should have access to the book. Much of the material relevant to answering the questions has been previously published in Dr. Galloway's textbook ICommon Eye Diseases and their Management/I (Springer-Verlag, 1985).

Inhalt

1. Introducing the Eye.- 2. Primary Care Eye Problems.- 3. Problems of the Eye Surgeon.- 4. Problems of the Medical Ophthalmologist.- 5. Blindness.