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SUMMER 2024 | EYEWORLD | 73 Contact Name: email G In terms of updates to training that he wishes to see in the future, Dr. Sheybani said, "At some point, we're going to have to consider drug delivery as a whole and not just in glau- coma." This could span more than just retinal intravitreal injections. He also noted a decrease in laser iridoto- mies around the country. There is a requirement in training to perform four laser iridotomies as the surgeon. If the number of these procedures continues to trend down, it might make sense to relax this requirement to only having done one but having observed two or three, Dr. Sheybani said. "Other than that, from a teaching perspec- tive, I don't think there's anything that has to be added that's not there yet," he said. "MIGS was just a big missing portion." skills we'd want residents to have coming out of training." He added that he thinks more about what skills and techniques those coming out of training should have rather than the specific procedures themselves. Dr. Boland said that while it seems unlikely that the average comprehensive ophthalmol- ogist is going to be doing trabeculectomy and tubes, the skills required for these surgeries are still important. That could be important for managing complications in other surger- ies, open globe repairs, future procedures, etc. "Leaving those traditional glaucoma surgeries out I think leaves the trainees with fewer skills they can use to become better surgeons later," he said. "You're also wasting that first part of fellowship having to start from scratch on some of these procedures. I don't know if that's a big trade-off or not, but you'd rather have more skills coming in." for its generous $35,000 donation match in support of the 2024 ASCRS ASOA Party for a Purpose! This match and donations from aendees raised a grand total of $100,400 in support of the ASCRS Foundation's programs, specifically the sight-restoring work of Operation Sight. THANK YOU to ALCON

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