Best practices in ophthalmic education

This special edition of Annals of Eye Science comprehensively addresses many of principles and changes that have occurred over the past couple of decades. The fairly new concept of competency-based training represents a shift from the old paradigm of showing that training programs are capable of teaching to showing that trainees can actually do what is expected of them. “Competence” is not just the ability to do something, but to do it well.