Survey Study on Fundus Diagram: The Untended Dexterity

Aims: The objective of this survey was to evaluate how routinely and efficiently the skill of fundus drawing is practiced among retinal specialists.

Fundus drawing is an invariably accepted evidence worldwide for documenting various retinal disorders.

Methods: A self-administered online questionnaire was circulated among various ophthalmologists. Potential participants were vitreo retinal surgeons and those ophthalmologists who work in a vitreo retinal department within Asia, United Kingdom and USA. The respondents were asked to mark either “YES” or “NO” for the given questions through google survey form.

Results: Responses were obtained from 68 ophthalmologists in total out of which 57(83.82%) were retinal surgeons and 11(16.18%) were not. 32 (46.38%) admitted drawing fundus diagrams in their routine practice whereas, significantly 37 (53.62%) were not practicing it routinely. 45(66.18%) confessed that they draw single colored fundus drawings of retinal patients and 23(33.82%) did not.

Conclusion: Regrettably, a large number of ophthalmologists according to our survey seem to be unenlightened with the imperative requirement of a fundus diagram in order to document various retinal pathologies in vitreo retinal patients, despite the fact that this skill has been considered mandatory in routine clinical practice of ophthalmologists.