EURETINA 2025: Maria Berrocal, MD, discusses the Vit-Buckle Society

Maria Berrocal, MD, met up with Modern Retina® during the 2025 European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA) congress held September 4-7 in Paris, France. Berrocal shared a brief overview of the Vit-Buckle Society (VBS) and its presence during the annual congress.

Editor's note: This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

Maria Berrocal, MD: Well, VBS is a really great organization. It was started, actually, during dinner clubs, to have young people be able to present surgical videos of surgical techniques and to bring new, novel, you know, young people doing different things.

Here at EURETINA, we have a symposium, which is a video symposium of different complex and unusual cases. So I think it's going to be really, really interesting. I love Vit-Buckle. It is a very vibrant young society, and it has a great presence at all the major meetings.

What makes Vit-buckle unique is that it is a very encompassing society where young people are given a platform to present whatever they're doing in a very open way. So you can be out of fellowship for 1 or 2 years, and you can have a presence at Vit-Buckle.

It is also a platform in which new ideas are exchanged, and it is a great educational tool, not only the main meeting, but there's all these webinars that go on all the time. There is a video library that teaches you how to do, you know, the basics of vitrectomy, as well as very complicated procedures. So it is a platform to bring yourself out there into the world, as well as to learn.