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68 | EYEWORLD | DECEMBER 2023 G UCOMA by Manjool Shah, MD Glaucoma Editor training years to integrate the variety of new technology that has become the state of play for glaucoma today, with Daniel Lee, MD, Sameh Mosaed, MD, and Lucy Shen, MD. As the year comes to a close, and before we start worrying about resolutions for the next one, we can all benefit by reflecting on where we are now in order to derive some lessons to carry forward. Every year is a new adventure, and 2023 has clearly not disappointed! While it seems that every year moves faster than the year before (I guess they call that getting older!), no year goes by without providing some valuable opportunities for growth. Here's to a happy and healthy end to 2023 and a prosperous new year. May your and your patients' IOPs be low (but not too low), your spirits high, and may we all continue to be sources of betterment, hope, and joy for each other. Learning lessons to carry forward O ne of the high- lights of my clinical practice is the opportunity to run our glaucoma fellowship program. The end of the calendar year routinely aligns with a particular point on the fellows' journey—a place where they're transitioning from learners to true practitioners. When they embark on their path in July, fellows are ready to drink from the fire hose but may not be ready to become the physicians they are going to be. They have yet to develop their own surgical style, clinical approach, and so many other facets to doctoring that one can't learn in a book. However, through trial and (a lot of) er- ror, fellows around the country are now arriving at a crossroads, and ahead of them is the trail that all of us physicians find ourselves on for the rest of our lives. By studying available resources, making dis- crete and tangible changes to current strategy, meticulously observing the response to these interventions, and iteratively integrating this knowledge for the next round, fellows around the country are rounding out the first half of the year and sprinting ahead. These are best practices we all strive for in our own personal and professional lives. In this issue of EyeWorld, we share lessons learned in managing cataracts in patients with pre-existing blebs, with Erin Boese, MD, and Michael Boland, MD, PhD; in tackling the demographic wave that is upon us by learning how to optimize comanagement with our optometric colleagues, with Joey Hsia, MD, and Deborah Ristvedt, DO; and in building upon fundamentals imparted during our formal "As the year comes to a close, and before we start worrying about resolutions for the next one, we can all benefit by reflecting on where we are now in order to derive some lessons to carry forward."

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