Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: Evangelism triumphs over common sense for ophthalmology

EDITOR—In the same issue as Williams and Lau describe the reform of undergraduate medical teaching as a triumph of evangelism over common sense,1 on page 80, the photographs showing narrowed and normal retinal arteriolar diameter are the wrong way round.2 Five days later on bmj.com no one else seems to have noticed [though a correction was published a month later3].

This is a sad reflection on the inability of non-specialist medical practitioners to distinguish between a retinal arteriole and a retinal venule any more, the result of the lack of undergraduate medical training in ophthalmology. Another triumph of evangelism.