Table 1.
Outstanding Instagram educational accounts and its communication particularities
| Instagram profile | Owner / Editor | Main communication method | Strengths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retina.review | Not specified | Clinical photography + text description | Wide range of cases |
| The_eye_doctor | Not specified | Clinical photography or video + text description | Original content. Texts tends to be short and divided into topics |
| Retina.rocks | Not specified | Clinical photography + text description | Wide range of cases |
| Surgeonretina | Rajesh Rao | Clinical photography + Quiz | Pictures are often from recently published articles |
| Nyeye | Nikola Ragusa | Clinical photography + Question | Wide range of cases and interaction |
| Retina.vitreo | Caio Franco | Clinical photography + text description | Hi-quality images and multimodal evaluation |
| Jordical_retina | Jorge Calzada | Clinical photography or video + text description | Original content. Literature data versus personal experience is shared in a responsible way |
| Instambulretina | Not specified | Clinical photography + text description | Original content |
| Retinatips | Filipe Lucatto and Juliana Prazeres | Short videos explaining retinal surgery techniques | Innovative method to share surgical content |
| Retinaldystrophies | Not specified | Clinical photography + text description | Original content |