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Cyber-Sight is a means for connecting people via the internet in their efforts to provide quality eye care leading ultimately to the elimination of avoidable blindness. For 25 years ORBIS has been assisting ophthalmologists and other eye health care providers around the world, initially with the world’s only flying eye hospital (FEH) and now with the addition of hospital based programs, and 5 permanent “in country programs”. The stimulus for Cyber-Sight was the perceived need to add continuity to a long series of successful but time limited projects. With Cyber-Sight, ORBIS can now achieve extended presence meaning that contact with those served is not limited by how long the FEH is in place or how long a hospital program lasts. The program is available to all qualified ophthalmologists in the developing countries and needs the support of any qualified ophthalmologist who wishes to donate his/her time and expertise.
Cyber-Sight is an interactive website that has three distinctive program components:
E-Resources is an electronic “library” of educational material available free and geared to any ophthalmologist or eye healthcare provider worldwide.
E-Consultation links partners with expert mentors for the purpose of patient consultation with emphasis on teaching partners in the most effective methods of diagnosis and management.
E-Learning allows enrolled doctors to have access to electronic texts including selected material that is password protected to include those in developing countries by agreement with the publisher and for students to take tests covering basic ophthalmic material while earning continuing medical education credit.
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