Moran CORE: Learning Without Borders

In the developing world, millions of people suffer from visual impairments because there simply aren’t enough eye doctors to care for them. While Moran’s Global Outreach Division works to train ophthalmologists around the globe, student access to high-quality textbooks and lectures is almost nonexistent in places like Tanzania or Haiti.

Even in industrialized nations like the U.S., medical students receive minimal ophthalmic education— as little as a few hours. This can leave primary care doctors with minimal knowledge of the eyes.

Moran’s Clinical Ophthalmology Resource for Education (CORE) website, www.morancore.utah.edu, aims to close both of these educational gaps. The unique website provides open-access, peer-reviewed ophthalmic education for medical providers and students around the world. Since CORE’s inception in 2015, its impact has grown in leaps and bounds.

GROWING CONTENT

CORE has 876 videos and its growing content includes training in basic eye care, instructional surgical videos, and faculty lectures given to residents.

I use it to learn surgical procedures because the videos are so clear and the procedures so well-explained that, with some guidance, it is easy to follow the steps.

—Saiko Mangumbe, MD, Zimbabwe

VAST RESOURCES

Physicians collect videos and medical photography from 7,000-plus yearly surgeries and more than 145,000 yearly patient visits at Moran.

MoranCORE.Utah.edu is produced in partnership with the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library at the University of Utah.

DID YOU KNOW?

The eyes are the window to overall health, so a physician who does a routine eye exam can detect clues in the eyes that often warn of issues elsewhere in the body—including diabetes, hypertension, and inflammatory conditions.

WATCH TIMES

CORE became searchable through YouTube in 2018. Since then, watch times have grown exponentially. Viewers may access the site directly, or go through YouTube.

Q1 2018: 70,000 MINUTES

Q4 2018: 3,000,000 MINUTES

2019: 10,324,554 MINUTES

The fact that basic eye exam videos are the most viewed speaks to the reality that doing a good eye exam is still a work in progress in many places around the world.

—Griffin Jardine, MD, Moran CORE editor-in-chief

PAGE VIEWS

2015: 6,511

2018: 67,295

2019: 209,578 as of November 11

VIEWERS BY LOCATION

2015: 65 COUNTRIES

2019: 194 COUNTRIES

THE TOP 10 COUNTRIES BY NUMBER OF USERS VIA CORE WEBSITE:

1. INDIA

2. EGYPT

3. SOUTH KOREA

4. THAILAND

5. BRAZIL

6. SOUTH AFRICA

7. GERMANY

8. NIGERIA

9. IRAN

10. ITALY

THE TOP 10 COUNTRIES BY NUMBER OF VIEWERS VIA CORE YOUTUBE:

1. UNITED STATES

2. UNITED KINGDOM

3. CANADA

4. GERMANY

5. INDIA

6. AUSTRALIA

7. FRANCE

8. BRAZIL

9. ITALY

10. NETHERLANDS

TOP 5 CORE VIDEOS

The Orbital Exam

1. THE ORBITAL EXAM

2. THE NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY EXAM: NEURO

3. THE NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY EXAM: PUPILS, COLOR, EYE MOVEMENTS, PRISM

4. THE OPHTHALMIC EXAM: RETINA AND POSTERIOR SEGMENT

5. USING SUBJECT REFRACTION TO CALCULATE GLASSES PRESCRIPTION AND FIT A CONTACT LENS