I am Silvia Méndez Martínez and I work as an associated professor at the University of Zaragoza and I am also part of the Medical Retina department of the Miguel Servet University Hospital in Spain. I heard about the ESASO courses from some colleagues and I got further information at the website. I attended the Medical Retina Module in Lugano in April 2018 and I was impressed by the high-quality lessons we received, with internationally renowned teachers and well organized schedules.
Furthermore, I had a golden opportunity attending the ESASO Observership Program at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Israel) with Prof. Anat Loewenstein as a tutor and all her huge and experienced retina team for a month. The experience was extremely rewarding, since I couldo improve my profesional background and knowledge in the field of medical and surgical retina, uveitis, retinal dystrophies and other retinal degenerative diseases and ophthalmic imaging, both with outstanding daily clinical sessions and in the eye clinic. Furthermore, I could closely observe all the clinical and technological research that takes place in this center.
However, without doubt, what I most appreciated and enjoyed was the exchange of ideas, daily practice protocols and discussion of clinical cases, and specially, the relationship with the colleagues who spend their time, effort and knowledge on me so that I could optimize my time in the department.