Anyone else struggle with eye exams?

[dani042]

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I feel like I just see blurriness and floaties when I try to do a fundoscopic exam? Anyone else? Any advice? (besides practice....of course)

 

[deleted87716]

The key things to master in terms of being able to see anything with a direct ophthalmoscope are:
1) Having a dark room
2) Having your eye close enough to the ophthalmoscope
3) Having the ophthalmoscope close enough to the patient
4) Having the ophthalmoscope properly focused
5) Having you, the ophthalmoscope, and patient properly lined up

Some people find the Welch Allyn PanOptic ophthalmoscope to be easier to use than the traditional type. The downside to learning on one of those is that you might not always have access to one.