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THE THIRD YEAR
 Third-year
residents complete 2 subspecialty rotations at University
Hospital in glaucoma
/ oculoplastics
and cornea
/ refractive surgery.
Here again, residents work closely with faculty and function
essentially as clinical fellows. The resident doing the cornea rotation,
for example, devotes time to the operating room, the Cornea
and Laser Vision Institute (in Teaneck, NJ), private
cornea practice, and cornea clinics, working one-on-one with full-time
faculty members in each setting. The unique experience at the Cornea
and Laser Vision Institute — one of the few resident rotations
of its kind in the country — ensures that the resident will be
certified in excimer laser refractive surgery by the end of the rotation.
During the remaining 3 rotations, the third-year resident functions as
Chief of the Ophthalmology Clinic at each of the 3 affiliated institutions
and is responsible (under the supervision of the attending physicians)
for all patient care redered by the service. At each institution, the
resident undergoes rigorous surgical instruction in phacoemulsification,
trabeculectomy, ophthalmic plastic surgery, and vitreoretinal surgery,
again, under close, individual supervision of clinical faculty. Moreover,
during each of the 10-week rotations at Jersey
City Medical Center and the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, third-year residents supervise
more junior residents in the clinic and in the microsurgery practice laboratory.
The third year is one of intense surgical training, and, by the end of
the year, each third-year resident will have performed over 200 major
ocular procedures as primary surgeon, each procedure assisted by an attending
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