In their guidelines, the ICO does not consider being able to test the IOP of a patients’ eye as an essential skill.15 However, it is suggested that the student should know how IOP measurement is done and be given the opportunity to develop this skill, for example during an elective or student selected component in ophthalmology. It seems that uniformity of opinion on the content of the undergraduate ophthalmology curriculum is unlikely to be achieved. The ICO guideline15 provides a compromise on this issue and as such have been widely accepted.27-29,31,35-37