Welcome to the premiere source for ophthalmology videos!

This website is chock-full of eye videos taken at the slit-lamp. Here you’ll find movies covering a wide variety of ocular pathology, ranging from the cornea all the way back to the retina.

This non-profit website is intended to help eye care providers improve their clinical skills. Use these videos to familiarize yourself with basic eye findings, see uncommon conditions, and potentially improve your PowerPoint presentations (and thus educate others). None of these videos should be construed as medical advice. If you have eye difficulties, please consult an eye doctor that you trust.

Cranial Nerve Palsies Runtime: 29 minutes Review of cranial nerves palsies that cause double vision. Exploding Eye Lecture Runtime: 28 minutes Experimental eye trauma video with guns, fire, and explosions. Comparative Anatomy Runtime: 22 minutes Review of animal eyes and what they teach us about our vision. Slit Lamp Eye Exam Runtime: 24 minutes Humorous, video-intense review of the ocular microscope and anterior eye exam. Pediatric Eye Exam Runtime: 10 minutes A funny, yet informative review of ocular examination techniques for children. Tropias and Phorias Runtime: 18 minutes A basic approach to ocular motility problems, with animations discussing cover-testing. Retinoscopy Workshop Runtime: 24 minutes The ultimate video-guide to learning loose-lens retinoscopy. Cataract Surgery Instruction Runtime: 8 minutes An animated and live walkthrough of a typical clear-cornea cataract surgery. Perfect for students! Cataract Lecture Runtime: 15 minutes An introduction lecture on cataracts, the history of surgery, and modern implants. Introduction to Optics Runtime: 24 minutes A lecture on optics basics, with emphasis on understanding glasses prescriptions and astigmatism. Ocular Trauma Lecture Runtime: 28 minutes This ophthobook lecture covers more eye injuries and gives tips on diagnosis and treatment. Eye Trauma Lecture Runtime: 24 minutes A humorous discussion of common eye and lid trauma seen in the ER. Optics Concepts Runtime: 26 minutes A review of basic optics concepts, from pinhole evolution through Snell’s Law. Twenty Eye Tricks Runtime: 18 minutes A lecture on advanced exam techniques for picking up malingerers, visual potential, and myasthenia gravis. Pediatric Ophthalmology Lecture Runtime: 23 minutes This basic lecture teaches retinoscopy, tropia-phoria testing, amblyopia, and causes for leukocoria. Iris Prolapse Runtime: 48 seconds Iris prolapsing through a scleral tunnel and wicking aqueous. NeuroOphthalmology (Part 1 of 2) Runtime: 24 minutes The first lecture in our neuro-ophthalmology introduction series. Focus on eye muscles and palsies. Pyogenic Granuloma Runtime: 26 seconds A pyogenic granuloma forms at the base of a chalazion. Using a lensometer Runtime: 1:39 minutes Learn to use the lensometer in less than two minutes. Meibomian Blepharitis Runtime: 51 seconds Expression of oil from an eye with meibomian gland dysfunction. Asteroid Hyalosis Runtime: 48 seconds Excellent video showing asteroid hyalosis deposits floating around in the vitreous. Band Keratopathy and EDTA Runtime: 1:17 minutes An eye with calcium deposition gets chelated and scraped, “before” and “after” video. Amiodarone Verticillata Runtime: 28 seconds Whorl keratopathy seen bilaterally in a woman on oral amiodarone. Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome Runtime: 27 seconds An impressive example of pseudoexfoliation syndrome found before cataract surgery. Laser Peripheral Iridotomy Runtime: 1:15 minutes A LPI for occludable angles captured on video, complete with fluid wave. Eyelid cyst Runtime: 30 seconds A keratin-filled epithelial inclusion cyst on the lower eyelid. Normal eye ultrasound Runtime: 42 seconds B-scan ultrasound of a normal eye showing only a vitreous detachment. Lens subluxation Runtime: 45 seconds Dislocated lens with vitreous presentation after a blunt trauma. Spontaneous Veinous Pulsations Runtime: 38 seconds Venous pulsations seen at the optic nerve in a case of ocular ischemia. Rhegmatogenous detachment Runtime: 1:01 minutes Bullous detachment from a retinal hole. Viewed with a contact lens and an excellent ultrasound. Cells in the anterior chamber Runtime: 1:08 minutes Teaching video clearly showing what “cell and flare” looks like under the microscope. Phylectenule on cornea Runtime: 20 seconds Phylectenular keratitis at the limbus from coexisting blepharitis. Perfluron in the AC Runtime: 38 seconds A bubble of perfluron trapped in the bottom of the anterior chamber. Epithelial Ingrowth after LASIK Runtime: 39 seconds Small islands of epithelial cells that have grown under the edge of a lasik flap. Hypopyon from tube exposure Runtime: 36 seconds Layered hypopyon in the AC from an exposed tube shunt endophthalmitis. Hyphema glaucoma paracentesis Runtime: 1:50 minutes Paracentesis of a large hyphema causing glaucomatous IOP. HSV dendrites Runtime: 15 seconds Perfectly formed, bilateral dendritic ulcers caused by herpetic infection of the cornea. Corneal Guttae Runtime: 36 seconds Corneal guttata as viewed from the slit-lamp, in a case of mild Fuch’s dystrophy. Corneal FB removal Runtime: 1:03 minutes Removal of corneal metal foreign body with rust-ring polishing. EKC viral conjunctivitis Runtime: 22 seconds Sub-epithelial infiltrates caused by epidemic keratoconjuncitivis (adenovirus). Corneal Laceration with Seidel Runtime: 52 seconds Slitlamp view of a small corneal laceration with an active seidel caught on video. Morgagnian Cataract Runtime: 28 seconds This hypermature lens shows a liquified cortex and hard nucleus sitting in the bottom of the bag.

Macular Degeneration Runtime: 4:14 minutes Very basic talk about macular degeneration. Animatronic Eye Runtime: 46 seconds An art exhibit showing an animatronic eye that follows you and blinks. How a lens is made Runtime: 9:20 minutes Video showing how an optical lens is made, in this case for a camera. Glaucoma Suspect Song Runtime: 4:40 minutes Someone took a Justin Timberlake music video and redid the lyrics, glaucoma-suspect style. Contact Lens Mishap Runtime: 30 seconds Humorous commercial showing the dangers inherent to not wearing contacts! Conjunctival Jewelry Runtime: 1:40 minutes Surgical video showing the placement of gold jewelry under the conjunctiva. Haunted Corneal Transplant Runtime: 2:02 minutes A trailer of Jessica Alba’s new movie, “The Eye” where a bilateral corneal PK goes terribly, terribly wrong. All about Iridology Runtime: 6:31 minutes The holistic art of using iris appearance to diagnose systemic health. Fabricating a prosthetic eye Runtime: 6:47 minutes An ocularist shows his artistic techniques and some of the molding process involved with prosthetics. How contact lens are made Runtime: 4:44 minutes A video showing how contact lenses are made on the lathe, polished, and checked with topography. Ocular histology crash course Runtime: 8:16 minutes Short histology review of the basic eye structures under a pathology microscope. Orthokeratology Runtime: 2:23 minutes The use of night-time contact lenses to temporarily correct mild myopia. RP Gene therapy Runtime: 3:35 minutes Brief TV interview about the new use of gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa. Aging Eye Problems Runtime: 48 minutes Basic introduction to cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy. Eye Histology Lecture Runtime: 53 minutes Lecture showing the histology of the eye. Basic Eye Exam Runtime: 7:15 minutes Video for medical students and non-ophthalmologists on performing the basic eye examination. Trabeculotomy Technique Runtime: 3:55 minutes Surgical video showing an external trabeculotomy for congenital glaucoma. Evolution of the Eye Runtime: 6:15 minutes A fascinating discussion of eye evolution: from the patch, cup, pinhole, to the lens system. Radio off Chalazion Runtime: 4:15 minutes Remove chalazion using radiofrequency. Laser Blepharoplasty Runtime: 6:15 minutes Blepharoplasty performed with a CO2 laser.