Cataract Coach with Uday Devgan MD

I was amazed to see a post from the USF Tampa residency program that showed ALL of their PGY2 residents successfully complete the 10-10-10 challenge. This means throwing 10 sutures of 10-0 nylon in 10 minutes in the wet-lab. This is not easy and takes considerable practice. Of the residents who trained at UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute during the 20+ years that I was professor t...

This podcast was one of the most enjoyable in recent memory and I had such a great time chatting with Dr Jack Shao that we ended up going over our typical 1 hour podcast. We have previously featured some of his tough cases here on Cataract Coach. Dr Shao is passionate about cataract surgery and evolving your surgical technique, mastering tough cases, and teaching the next genera...

Our podcast guest, Dr Richard Schulze Jr, comes from a family of physicians and like many fellow ophthalmologists is a child of an ophthalmologist. He has a strong passion for the humanities, investing the time to do a master's degree at Oxford prior to beginning medical school. We talk about surgical evolution and the power of independent practice, two critical aspects of succe...

At a recent meeting, I was really amazed at the complexity of anterior segment cases that Dr David Crandall presented. He and his team of 9 colleagues run the glaucoma service and fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. That is a very large hospital and health system that does a very large volume of ophthalmic surgeries across all subspecialities and treats 55,00...