Eye Yield: Ophthalmology Basics for Board and FRCS Part 1 Exams

In a specialty like ophthalmology, where ophthalmology rotations and residency
duration are relatively short, students and residents cannot afford to spend much
time studying details on basic ophthalmology topics. Moreover, ophthalmology is a
field poorly covered during medical school in most countries, so graduate medical
doctors usually face difficulties understanding its concepts afterward. These facts
among others led to the conception of the book Eye Yield, which aims to provide
high yield information for the basic ophthalmology exams.
This book includes 22 chapters discussing specific structures, including the retinaand macula to each cranial nerve, where relevant anatomy, physiology, pathology,
and other basics related topics are discussed. After that, and as ophthalmology
exams usually include questions about general and ophthalmic pharmacology,
pathology, immunology, microbiology, embryology, and genetics, relevant chapters
are provided separately for these topics. Despite the non-exhaustive coverage of
non-ophthalmology basics, the included material mostly will introduce the high
yield information in such topics.
Ophthalmology exams usually ask a question about a topic, provide 4–5 statements,
and ask you to choose the most accurate statement. To answer the question,
you either need to know the accurate statement, or need to know the other nonaccurate
statement. Statements might be inaccurate due to changing a number or a
sign. For example, the average tear production rate is 1.2 μl/min, while the statement
that might be provided is 1.2 ml/min. Pay attention to these trivial details during
your study, where we will try to emphasize on these details through “Eye Yield
Note” boxes.