{"id":5647,"date":"2022-03-08T11:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:09:34","slug":"first-prize-for-best-research-paper-at-scottish-ophthalmological-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/first-prize-for-best-research-paper-at-scottish-ophthalmological-club\/","title":{"rendered":"First prize for best research paper at Scottish Ophthalmological Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Obaid Kousha, SCREDS Clinical Lecturer at the School of Medicine, \u00a0won first prize for best research paper at the Scottish Ophthalmological Club.\u00a0 The paper was on the Frugal retinal laser simulation eye he has developed.\u00a0 Retinal lasering is used to treat blinding eye conditions such as diabetic eye disease.\u00a0 The procedure is a potentially hazardous, therefore simulation-based training is ideal in order to learn the skill in a safe and controlled environment.\u00a0 However, most simulation tools are too expensive for those training in low resource settings where the need is greatest.\u00a0 Dr Kousha and the Arclight team have developed a low-cost simulation eye adapted for retinal laser training and assessment.\u00a0 The \u2018eye\u2019 costs \u00a34 but it has a paper retina that the user can re-print as needed.\u00a0 It has been validated by experts as a teaching tool and presented in Scottish Ophthalmology Club Spring meeting 2022 where it won the prize for the best paper presentation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5648\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5648\" src=\"https:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2022\/03\/DSC_0003-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Obaid Kousha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Obaid Kousha, SCREDS Clinical Lecturer at the School of Medicine, \u00a0won first prize for best research paper at the Scottish Ophthalmological Club.\u00a0 The paper was on the Frugal retinal laser simulation eye he has developed.\u00a0 Retinal lasering is used to treat blinding eye conditions such as diabetic eye disease.\u00a0 The procedure is a potentially&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10,1],"tags":[98,368,823,1028,1042],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arclight","category-igh","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-arclight","tag-dr-obaid-kousha","tag-ophthalmology","tag-scottish-ophthalmological-club","tag-simulation-eye"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 11:14:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}