RANZCO Eye Museum

RANZCO Museum

Histories And Services

Histories And Services

  • The History of the College Journal

    The College Journal, Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (CEO) are celebrating their 50th year in 2022. The College Journal's early beginnings have been written down by Margaret Dunn. Read it here.

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  • A History of RANZCO

    The history of RANZCO from its inception by Margaret Dunn. Milestones, personalities and structure. RANZCO celebrated 50 years in 2019. Read the book here.

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  • Barbara McKay’s Memories Of Ophthalmic Nursing

    Barbara McKay recounts her experience of being an ophthalmic nurse in the 1950s. I commenced my Nursing Training in 1953 at Repatriation General Hospital Concord, at that time caring for serving members, veterans of both...

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  • Al Mckay’s Cataract Surgery Recollections

    Al Mckay recalls his experiences with early cataract surgery. My first surgical encounter with ophthalmology was in 1959; I was a medical officer at a tiny hospital in southern Tasmania, actually I had been born...

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  • Mark Gardner

    Mark Gardner - A Lifetime Of Service To The Old "Eye & Ear" Mark Gardner graduated MB, BS, at Melbourne University in 1909, and after two years as Resident at the Childrens and Melbourne Hospitals...

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  • JEK Galbraith -History Of Retinal Surgery

    The Retina Unit was set up by the late Professor Gerard Crock in 1963. When I joined him a year later as his First Assistant, my first job was to review the results of retina...

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