American journal of ophthalmology
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Teaching ophthalmoscopy to medical students (the TOTeMS study).
To determine medical student preferences for learning the ocular fundus examination and to assess their accuracy using different examination modalities. ⋯ Students preferred fundus photographs for both learning and examining the ocular fundus. Identification of ocular fundus features was more accurate on photographs compared to examination by direct ophthalmoscopy. In the future, the increasing availability of nonmydriatic ocular fundus photography may allow replacement of direct ophthalmoscopy in many clinical settings for non-ophthalmologists.