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Andy Franklin describes a novel yet effective way of teaching an increasingly important skill

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The big problem is patients. They have a nasty habit of being human, so they fidget, they blink, their eyes water and they flinch and, generally, are not terribly keen on having bright lights pointed at them, especially by students.

With regard to the students, they are the other potential problem. They fiddle about and refocus and change the illumination and refocus and lose the fundus and refocus, while the patient is fidgeting and blinking. It's not an ideal situation.

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