 Hello and welcome to the Community iHealth Journal webcast. Today I'm joined by Elmene Walfards Ellison, editor of the Community iHealth Journal, and Dr Fatima Kiari, clinical ophthalmologist and research fellow. Thank you very much for joining me. Firstly, Elmene, if I can start with you. The Community iHealth Journal is published in English and in French as well. Just tell us, who is the journal intended for? Well, it's for all IK workers really. From absolutely the primary level people dealing with everyday eye conditions, through secondary doctors ophthalmologists to teaching hospitals. We know from my readership survey that the journals used to teach others a lot. And also, it's used at primary level to just refresh people's training so that they feel confident that what they're doing is the right thing. Somebody actually wrote us that you remind me that I'm doing the right and acceptable thing. Right, and Fatima, you're based in Nigeria, correct? Yes, I am. And how do you find, do you see the journal being read by many of your colleagues or how does it influence their practice? Well, yes, it's been read a lot by my colleagues and even people I work with, the nurses, other iHealth workers. Sometimes my colleagues get lost because they borrow them and then they say, OK, I'll return it to you tomorrow. And I say, no, you can have it because I can always have another one. Very good. Or because there's an online version of it which I can get onto it. This is now. But then, before they started the online version, we could, and that was during my training days, we could subscribe and then get it for free and it does get to us. So we just tried to get as many people as possible on the database. Yes. Absolutely. It's really quite useful. If I can draw from my experience, when I was training, maybe second year residency, first year second year residency, there was this issue that had trachoma, trachiasis surgery in it. And I actually used it as my surgical tutor. Right. I read it the night before I had the TT surgery to do the bilamela tasa rotation. And I used it for my surgery and it was very successful and that's how I started sharing my experiences with others using the journal as a trainer, just as information but also for training. So you're a clinical ophthalmologist, but Elmene, what does the journal contain? Is it only for ophthalmologists? No. Does anyone who reads it get instruction from it? Absolutely. In fact, I've been looking at who reads it at the primary health care level. In that group, a quarter of the readers are nurses, doctors and emergency health workers who want to learn more about ICA and who feel the need. They see in their community there's a lot of people with eye problems and they want to refresh their knowledge and learn a bit more because very often ICA is not included in their normal training so they're really keen to learn as much as possible and that's been growing. And what we've also learned from the readership survey is that ICA workers at this level use it to teach patients about what's going on with their eyes because there's lots of images and pictures and diagrams so they can see what's going on to educate the patient's families because they might need extra care and it's also gone to teachers because school eye screening is still a big issue. There's a lot of uncorrided refractive area and the more widely people know about these very basic and helpful ICA issues, the quicker they can take action and the more easily we can prevent blindness. Fatima, you mentioned your colleagues sometimes maybe steal the journal from you. What about medical students as well? Do they gain information from that or do they use a tough subject to learn? Well, I can't really say much about that because my interaction with medical students is very minimal but with trainees, postgraduate trainees, yes, they like the journal and most of them actually subscribe to it and they get it, yeah. And in terms of receiving the journal, I mean we live in a digital world now I'm looking at my iPad right now just tell me, is there a need to have a print version? I mean because you can download iPad apps or read things on the internet as Fatima alluded to so why do we still have the print version? Well, if you're in the UK you don't need a print version and we'd be much happier if you downloaded it rather than asking for a paper copy but in Africa particularly which is really where the biggest need is for ICA information internet access is completely terrible in many countries in capital cities you'll have some decent internet access but even there it can be intermittent it can be very expensive as well and to download something, I think the journal is about 10 megabytes if you want to download it and it's really slow people have to wait a long time so we know from the evidences that it's really difficult but we were very encouraged to see that 98% of our journal readers have mobile phones and about I think 20% might have we're not 100% sure but I think 20% have phones with internet capability so we're starting to move our content in a more digital friendly format so that those who do have that access can have it so that we can serve the entire range of IK workers working in different settings So for people who do have internet access which website should they be logging on to? It's www.cehjournal.org Fantastic Thank you both very much for joining me and we look forward to another ICH and Community I Health Journal webcast Thank you very much