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Samuel Packer, MD; David W. Parke II, MD; Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2008;126(10):1458-1459.

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Consider the following scenarios: (1) A university Department of Ophthalmology offers a course and wet laboratory on the medical and surgical management of eyelid lesions (eg, chalazia, "simple" basal cell carcinomas). They market this course to ophthalmologists and to optometrists. Is this ethical and appropriate? (2) A politically active and referring optometrist asks an ophthalmologist to show him how to perform chalazion and "minor eyelid surgery." He says that he is not going to do the procedures until it is legal. Is this ethical and appropriate?

Ophthalmologists today have many opportunities to teach elements of their specialty to fellow ophthalmologists as well as to those outside their specialty. Teaching in general is morally admirable. Can it be morally questionable? Can it be morally wrong? What guidelines exist to assist in the determination?

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