About Us

Eye-Opening-Education was co-founded by Ms. Evgenia (Jen) Anikina & Ms. Stacey Strong in order to highlight awareness of topics that were not covered throughout specialist training.

Jen & Stacey started ophthalmology training together in 2009 and are now both successful consultants in their respective sub-specialist fields, both in the NHS and private practice.

Both women noticed significant gaps in the specialist syllabus that had not prepared them for certain aspects of consultant life, such as: understanding job planning, how to get approval to use a new drug in your department, how to get into private practice, indemnity options, setting up a new service or service-level agreement (SLA), serious incident panel presentation, performance management, alternative career options, tips for maintaining work-life balance, etc.

Jen & Stacey decided to design a set of courses entitled "What you were not taught in training". The first in the series is aimed at Ophthalmologists and will take place on Monday 8th December 2025 at Watford General Hospital, 9am - 5pm.

They hope you will find these courses extremely interesting and insightful.