Ophthalmology Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

OphthalmologyWeb

• Description: "The 'Eyesite' for Ophthalmologists"
• Quality: "OphthalmologyWeb is an informative, educational and dynamic online community space for eye care physicians from each of the subspecialties to connect, learn and enhance their knowledge base and practice."

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Medpedia - Eye Care Community

• Description: "For Ophthalmologists, Optometrists, other providers, and the general public, to discuss eye care and vision health."
• Quality: Medpedia is a medical encyclopaedia managed and edited by medical professionals.

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About.com - Vision Forum

• Description: "A place to discuss eye problems, contact lenses, eyeglass prescriptions, conditions and diseases, eye twitching, red eye, glaucoma, macular degeneration, spots and floaters, etc."
• Quality: About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

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eHealthForum - Vision and Eye Disorders Forum

• Description: "Welcome to the Vision and Eye Disorders Forum - a health community featuring member and doctor discussions ranging from a specific symptom to related conditions, treatment options, medication, side effects, diet, and emotional issues surrounding medical conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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Healthcommunities.com - Vision Channel

• Description: "Physician-developed information on eye/vision problems and opportunities to connect with others about cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment, macular degeneration, and vision problems, and vision correction."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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Student Doctor Network - Ophthalmology Forum

• Description: "The mission of SDN is to assist and encourage all students through the challenging and complicated healthcare education process."
• Quality: "With over 200,000 members and well over 8 million posts, our community can answer practically any question you may have, from college through medical practice."

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Doctors Lounge - Eye diseases (Ophthalmology)

• Description: "Doctors Lounge is one of the most popular online medical resources for physicians, students and allied clinical professionals. It provides clinical information through multimedia tutorials and other study aids. Both patients and professionals can seek answers to medical questions via the public discussion boards, also known as the medical forums."
• Quality: "Currently our content spans 20 medical specialties with over 20,000 pages of medical information. Our members have written over 10,000 medical articles and answered more than 30,000 medical questions. Our content is currently being taught in medical schools worldwide and is part of the student curriculum for medical students in two international medical schools."

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MedHelp - Eye Care

• Description: "The MedHelp site connects people with the leading medical experts and others who have similar experiences. Today, MedHelp empowers over 5.5 million people each month to take control over their health and find answers to their medical questions. MedHelp has over 14 years of accumulated information from doctors and other patients across hundreds of conditions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

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Ocula.info

• Description: "The Society for Clinical Ophthalmology."
• Quality: "Society for Clinical Ophthalmology aims to equip you with the cutting-edge ophthalmic information and the answers you need, whether you are a healthcare professional or patient / consumer."

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Eyedocs.co.uk

• Description: "Eyedocs.co.uk was founded with the intention of bringing the ophthalmology community closer together - by providing an informative, opinionated, interactive community web experience. Ophthalmology is a select specialty and the number of ophthalmologists in training small. In our experience, ophthalmology doctors can easily find themselves limited by location to just a few colleagues whom they can seek for advice, opinions and guidance."
• Quality: It has contact information, privacy policy and clear descriptions.

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Inspire - Ophthalmology Community

• Description: An online community connecting patients with eye infections and diseases and their caregivers, family and friends.
• Quality: Inspire connects patients, families, friends, caregivers and health professionals for health and wellness support. Inspire works with trusted health partners to build safe and secure health and wellness groups.

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Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous ophthalmology groups:

UK Ophthalmology

• Description and content: "Medical students, researchers, trainees, consultants, orthoptists and optometrists: all are welcome to join."

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Eye Surgeon Network

• Description and content: "An international forum on Facebook for the sharing of ideas, improvement, networking, and promotion of ophthalmology."

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Ophthalmologists

• Description and content: "This group is concerned with connecting ophthalmologists from different parts of the world together. We hope this platform will enable ophthalmologists to work together and share their experience in improving the eye health standards of our patients. If you are an ophthalmologist or still in training, a medical student thinking of ophthalmology, or a medical professional with a specific interest in ophthalmology please join us."

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Ophthalmology

• Description and content: "An open group to ophthalmologists all over the world.."

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Optometry

• Description and content: "Optometrists are primary health care providers for the diagnosis management and treatment of eye diseases and visual system refractive disorders. Optometrists examine and diagnose many disorders of the eyes and visual system, including refractive (i.e., near or far sightedness) and disease related conditions."

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Ophthalmology and Optometry

• Description and content: "This group has been created to enable members of the eyecare profession to share information, media, news, advice, and more. Members include ophthalmologists and optometrists, researchers, clinical scientists, students, and members of the ophthalmic pharmaceutical industry."

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International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO)

• Description and content: "The ICO represents and serves professional associations of ophthalmologists throughout the world. The ICO works with ophthalmologic societies, ophthalmologists and others to enhance ophthalmic education and the provision of eye care in order to preserve and protect vision for all people worldwide."

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Academy of American Ophthalmology

• Description: "Help educate the public about eye injuries and eye safety. Dedicated to presenting recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of eye disease, scientific papers, instruction courses, posters, videos and the most extensive tutorials from our Health Professionals. The Academy is your best resource for ophthalmic education, meetings, advocacy and global eye care. Membership in the Academy is open to any ophthalmologist worldwide as well as medical doctors currently enrolled in an ophthalmology..."

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World Ophthalmology Physician Society

• Description and content: "Goal of teh group is to exchange ideas, meetings dates, conference dates, etc between ophthalmologists across the world. Sales people, spam people, and non-physicians will be removed from the group."

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