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DIDACTICS
All didactic lectures, rounds, and conferences are conducted at the Doctors Office Center, the central teaching facility of this program. The didactic schedule comprises lectures and conferences on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings and are conducted primarily by the full-time faculty.
On Monday mornings, lectures will alternate among the neuro-ophthalmology, retina, cornea, and glaucoma services. A Fluorescein conference is held each Wednesday morning (except the fourth Wednesday of the month) at 7:00 AM and is attended by all first-year residents. The retina resident is responsible for preparing this conference.
On the fourth Wednesday morning of the month, the first-year residents will attend an ophthalmic pathology lecture by Dr. Mirani in the Department of Pathology, followed by a 30-45 minute review of all pathologic specimens generated the previous week.
The first and third Friday (and fifth, if applicable) of the month, all residents are required to attend the Mortality and Morbidity conference run by Drs. Zarbin, Langer, Guo, and Chu at 6:30 AM. On the first Friday morning of the month at 7:00 AM, a neuro conference or a retina lecture is held. The third Friday morning of the month is dedicated to Orbital Conference, a multispecialty conference involving orbital surgery, neuroradiology, and pathology. The third-year resident on the plastics rotation (two cases) and the second-year neuro resident (one case) are responsible for preparing and digitizing these cases so they can be archived. Grand Rounds are held the third Monday evening of each month, which includes a resident lecture followed by the main presentation.
First-year residents are encouraged to attend the free optics review course held one weekend in March at Baylor in Houston, Texas, for which the department will pay the airfare. Second-year residents are encouraged to attend the week-long AFIP Ophthalmic Pathology Course in September in Maryland, for which the department will subsidize the tuition. Finally, the department offers an introductory microsurgery course every August to orient new residents to the surgical aspects of ophthalmology.
RESEARCH
 Resident
research projects are mandatory, and the faculty participates actively
in guiding residents in their research endeavors. Second- and third-year
residents are required to complete a research project and to present
the results at the annual Resident/Alumni Day Meeting. Travel funds
are available for residents whose abstracts are accepted for presentation
at national meetings (Table 1), such as the Association for Research
in Vision and Ophthalmology or the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
| TABLE
1. OPHTHALMOLOGY RESIDENT PUBLICATIONS |
|
YEAR
|
ABSTRACTS
|
PEER-REVIEWED
MANUSCRIPTS
|
BOOKS
& CHAPTERS
|
CASE
REPORTS
|
TOTAL
|
|
1995-1996
|
2
|
1
|
N/A
|
0
|
3
|
|
1996-1997
|
3
|
4
|
N/A
|
2
|
9
|
|
1997-1998
|
2
|
7
|
N/A
|
1
|
10
|
|
1998-1999
|
6
|
18
|
N/A
|
2
|
26
|
|
1999-2000
|
3
|
11
|
N/A
|
1
|
15
|
| 2000-2001 |
8 |
10 |
N/A
|
1 |
19 |
|
2001-2002
|
18
|
10
|
4
|
0
|
32
|
|
|
DUTIES
AND BENEFITS
First-year
residents are on 24-hour in-house call approximately once every
sixth night, and second-year
residents are on 24-hour in-house call every 35 nights (covering
Friday nights only), or a total of 10 times per year.
Third-year residents
are on back-up call for surgical emergencies when they are doing rotations
at University Hospital, but are not on call during their other three 10-week
rotations. All residents receive a 1-week vacation during 1 of the 2 weeks
of the winter holidays and an additional 3 weeks over the course of the
year. Third-year residents are also provided financial support to attend
the annual American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in October. Salary
levels are as follows: PGY-II, $43,160; PGY-III, $45,803; PGY-IV, $48,478. |
