María Berrocal, MD, spoke about the Vit-Buckle Society (VBS), which has become a regular feature at the European Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting
For the second year in a row, the Vit-Buckle Society (VBS) had a notable presence at the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) annual meeting. María Berrocal, MD, took time to speak with us about VBS ahead of her Kreissig Award Lecture.
In this video, Dr Berrocal speaks about the VBS symposium featured at this year's EURETINA congress, the society's unexpected origins and what young clinicians can expect to encounter when they attend VBS events or get involved online.
Aleksandra Rachitskaya, MD, FASRS, from Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, and Danilo Iannetta, MD, PhD, from Rome Sapienza University, also stopped by the Eye Care Network booth to speak about VBS. Listen to their full conversation from the 2025 EURETINA congress.
María Berrocal, MD: Well, VBS is a really great organisation. It was started, actually, during dinner clubs, to have young people be able to present surgical videos of surgical techniques and to bring new, novel, you know, young people doing different things.
Here at EURETINA, we have a [VBS] symposium which is a video symposium of different complex and unusual cases. So I think it's going to be really, really interesting. I love Vit-Buckle. It is a very vibrant young society, and it has a great presence at all the major meetings.
What makes Vit-Buckle unique is that it is a very encompassing society, where young people are given a platform to present whatever they're doing in a very open way. So you can be out of fellowship for 1 or 2 years, and you can have a presence at Vit-Buckle.
It is also a platform in which new ideas are exchanged, and it is a great educational tool—not only the main meeting, but there's all these webinars that go on all the time. There is a video library that teaches you how to do the basics of vitrectomy, as well as very complicated procedures. So it is a platform to bring yourself out there into the world, as well as to learn.
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