so are you thinking about becoming an eye doctor? if so you're gonna love this
video. I'm dr. Joseph Allen and I'm gonna share with you the best books in
Ophthalmology and optometry. the books that help me stay the top of my class
while in school and still help me in clinic today
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information including links to these books that I'm gonna be mentioning that
are gonna help you out a lot otherwise this kind of a special video I actually
have several viewers that have reached out to me whether you're on YouTube or
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out the complete playlist now today's video is about the best books in eye
care these are books that I either had to get in school some of them I didn't
have to get I just got them on my own that I read on my free time that pushed
me to the top of my class including books that I still use today for writing
publications and you know basically just being the best doctor I can be so book
number one at the top of the list that I would ever say is probably ophthalmology
by Yanoff and Duker this book is giant it is huge it's very heavy now there are
digital versions of this book I personally like the hard copy because I
like to take notes and highlight in the margins but one of the main reasons I
like this book the most is because it covers just about everything in I care
it covers just the basic science down to more advanced surgical techniques
there's even a whole like digital's course that it comes with that shows you
how the surgical techniques are done and actually shows you real cases a lot of
these chapters are written by some of the best minds and all of I care and it
covers just a wide range of disease things from just simple infections like
pinkeye to the surface of the eye to really advanced retinal diseases there's
actually so much in this book that I bet if you read through the entire thing
before you went to school you might even know a couple of things that your own
professors have no idea about one of the other things I like about books like
this and this is comes with most textbooks nowadays is that
inside the front cover there's actually an access code that lets you go on to
their website and you can pretty much access the entire book remotely which is
fantastic because they have a search bar so if you're doing any sort of a
publication if you're doing a research paper or if you're just like gosh I
remember this one thing from a class but I don't remember exactly what it said
type it in boom there you go you have every page that disease or word was ever
mentioned on now number two on my list is a little bit more of my personal
favorite its cornea by ma what's who's it by again Mannis and Holland. cornea
actually comes in two sets this is one of two books it's one of the reasons I
got this is because I spent a lot of my time looking at the front surface of the
eye I absolutely love cornea and anterior surface disease so if somebody
has a bad infection if someone's got a uveitis or just some sort of
complication that's going on the front surface of the eye including surgeries
like LASIK or DESEK or they're having some other disease that needs to be
treated this book covers just about all of that but more in-depth even more so
than the ophthalmology textbook goes this is actually a book that I guarantee
you any sort of cornea specialist whether they're a doctor of Optometry
whether they are a LASIK surgeon I guarantee you they probably have a copy
of this textbook but just like the ophthalmology book this one is a newer
version and again it has an access code online so that you can you know use the
search tool and find all the answers you need
number three is actually kind of special for me because I didn't have to get this
book I actually got it my first year just because it was kind of highly
recommended it honestly made me a way better clinician especially when
actually got into seeing patients and that book is the Wills Eye manual now
there's many different versions of this book I always recommend getting the most
updated version because yeah science and medicine changes and you want to be
taking care of people the most modern and best ways instead of doing some sort
of older technique that's you know out-of-date and could potentially hurt
somebody now wills I manual is kind of like the cheat sheet version of yonathan
Duke ER ophthalmology do you member those sparknotes or abridged version
it's kind of like that it's something that's small enough that you can keep in
your book bag or let's say going from clinic to clinic or you know it's just
something handy to have in case you know oh geez that is a
that I remember studying in the book or studying in school but have never
actually seen it and so if you need to you can get out of the office and
actually go quick flip open to this book and read the quick section and be like
oh yeah that's that weird medication that I need to prescribe or I need to
you know do some sort of a lab work and I just don't remember what it is
this is kind of that cookbook that'll tell you that answer now why this book
actually helped me a lot in school is because when I got it my first year I
actually just started reading it on my own even when I didn't fully understand
what some things were like medications I hadn't taken pharmacology yeah every
night before bed I would just say okay I'm laying down before bed I'm just
gonna pick one thing to study I'd flip open the book to one of the chapters and
you know some of these aren't even that long but it was enough that I could read
hey what is this disease what does it look like what are the causes of this
disease what are some of the differentials or other diseases that
look similar to it and then go with kind of think to myself okay if I saw this in
the clinic what tests would I order kind of systemic things do I have to think
about what kind of treatment is needed so it really was a good way through
school again even before I started seeing patients to start categorizing
where disease was and how to treat it and again I think it's easily digestible
and again if you're going to school you know ophthalmology the yonathan Duker
text has all of the information and more this is kind of the abridged version at
the very least I would say everybody get this book if you're going into I care
now book number four is actually neuro-ophthalmology and this one's by
Klein and firuzan no this book again I got actually got this one in school this
one was again highly recommended when I took my neuro course is similar to wills
eye in that it has bullet points and it's kind of like the cheat abridged
version for neuro any sort of neuro case that comes into the clinic if someone's
got a nerve palsy if you're suspecting someone's got a stroke or if someone has
a tumor or something going on neurological this is kind of that book
that's gonna walk you through what are the differentials what are the most
important things you need to worry about what kind of tests you need to order you
need to order an MRI do you need to order a CT reasons why I liked this book
again because it was light it was kind of similar to wills eye that it was kind
of like a cookbook style the neural cases are some of the more tougher cases
in eye care and it's good to have something that'll kind of hold your
and through it coming in number five is the clinical management of binocular
vision now this book is this is actually the third edition by Schermin and wick
but this book is really if you're somebody who loves pediatrics if you
think envision therapy if you're thinking that you know maybe traumatic
brain injury rehabilitation something along those lines this book will teach
you everything got this book because I was in school and I was taking the
vision therapy course and that course was actually more difficult than you
would imagine came in handy not just in general clinic
and in school but then actually in my residency as well because I had a lot of
patients at the VA who either having problems with double vision or you know
part of my residency was actually in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation so
it really helped me out there but this book again covers a lot of different
things especially about just eye muscle movement disorders as well as kind of
like different processing in our brain of how we see images and how our brain
kind of overlaps those images so that you can actually see but it's all done
from kind of a clinical perspective so it's not just textbook didactic
information it's actually stuff that you can use and even has case examples so
that you can work through things and really teach yourself how this all works
now I'm just going to include a few bonus items because these are books that
I had in school and helped me a lot there but it's something I really don't
open up anymore now that I've graduated the first one here is the clinical
Anatomy by Lee Ann Remington it actually teaches you the basic fundamentals the
foundation that you need for understanding how the eyes work the
anatomy what part of the eye does why but it actually has clinical insights
like hey if this person is having a certain part of their eyes damaged and
it'll say oh yeah because of that damage you will see this in the clinic this
actually affects how what you will see when you actually have a real patient in
front of you and a lot of these sort of questions are things that are mirrored
on board exams so yeah good book not the book that you can consider it's visual
perception a clinical orientation now again in this book I got used more for
our vision science courses it actually has a lot of cool information just kind
of understanding about light and how light interacts with our eyes and how
different parts of our brain process vision you know it explains more of like
Nicolle illusions and just kind of weird phenomenons that we see with eyes and
vision it goes really in-depth into color vision and color vision
deficiencies so again this is a very good book and written by just a famous
author Stephen H Schwartz so yeah good book and the last book on my list is
actually boorish --is clinical refraction now this is actually a book
that again I did have to get in school and it is at the bottom of the list here
because it is very difficult to read I find the writing is very dry it's kind
of tough to follow sometimes if you are someone who knows you're gonna go more
into you know being a doctor of Optometry if you're someone who maybe is
just maybe your technician in an ophthalmology clinic and you do a lot of
the refractions if you want to be a master of really doing refraction that's
the part room clinic when they're asking better one better - this book tells you
not just how to do that but all the more advanced tips and tricks that'll really
break things down this book will teach you ridiculous amounts of information
but again it's a little dry a little bit tough to get through you can see how
much it's gotten use because of you know I have all this duct tape and those
pages falling out but again overall another book you can consider the wild
question of the day did you find this review of different books helpful at all
and you have any other questions regarding Ophthalmology and optometry go
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