A BASIC: RELEVANCEThe agenda changes every year because Dr. Osher encourages attendees to fill out the conference evaluations, which he reads to determine what beginning, intermediate and advanced surgeons want to learn. “We target all three levels with video symposia on routine, challenging and extreme cases.”A morning is devoted to complication management and selecting IOLs in difficult situations. An afternoon of new technology features the ‘Showdowns,’ in which surgeons will go head-to-head demonstrating the advantages of new technologies. “At times, it is an all-out combat.” Education, in the world of Bob Osher, is not boring.The afternoons are devoted to more than 30 wet labs and didactic courses. Surgeons may choose to learn pars plana vitrectomy for complications during cataract surgery taught by vitreoretinal specialists. Another popular choice is the intracameral devices wet lab.?Yet another focuses upon iris reconstruction.There are opportunities to learn new technologies such as CyPass, Xen, phakic lenses and AK/LRI and ocular sealants. A number of new wet labs have been added, including intra-scleral haptic fixation (Yamane). Subspecialty education takes up two-half days before the meeting begins — for early birds, at no additional charge.Lisa Arbisser, MD, a long-time instructor at CS:TILII, says her four wet labs sold out in a week. “By far this [conference] is the best place to learn.”Richard Packard, MD, ESCRS Binkhorst Award recipient, assisting an attendee with one-on-one instruction in the wetlabs.
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