European ophthalmology from a British perspective

By the Clausus Medicus or L'Acte Medicale, which restricts examination, diagnosis, and treatment to medically qualified people, European opticians are banned from carrying out many of the practices that are commonplace in the United Kingdom or United States STRUCTURE OF EUROPEAN OPHTHALMOLOGY First, let me make it clear, there are some very fine eye units in other parts of the EU, but the average ophthalmologist in the rest of Europe should not necessarily be equated with the average ophthalmologist in the United Kingdom. None of the other EU nations, with the possible exception of Ireland, has such well structured training as that in the UK, with the associated controls of both the local deanery and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists' quinquennial inspections. [...]few countries have a rigorous examination system and none as demanding as that in the UK or Ireland.