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Elliott Yann Ah-kee,1 Aamir Asif Khan2 1Department of Surgery, Monklands Hospital, Monkscourt Ave, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, 2Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UKWe read with high interest the article by Shah,1 which describes strategies for curriculum changes to increase exposure to smaller specialties, including dermatology, psychiatry, and radiology. To this list of specialties, we would also like to add ophthalmology. In a survey of UK medical schools, Baylis et al2 found that undergraduate ophthalmology attachments were not compulsory and sometimes only limited to 7 days. Moreover, medical schools were gradually reducing the amount of exposure to ophthalmology within the curriculum.View the original article by Shah