One of the great joys of practicing ophthalmology is the lifelong opportunity to assimilate new knowledge and procedures for the betterment of our patients.

Indeed, those of us privileged to have been practicing for a decade or more are humbled by the incredible advances in visual science, ocular pharmacology, and surgery that we have witnessed during our professional careers. The advent of gene therapy, cell-based therapy, visual prostheses, artificial intelligence, and other novel treatments portends even greater progress in our quest of protecting sight and empowering lives.

With this progress comes the responsibility to maintain clinical competence and provide evidence of such to the public.