The Ophthalmology residency is a 3+1 year, Option 2 program.
Introduction
The ophthalmology residency at Grandview Hospital is three-year program. Applicants must be graduates of an osteopathic medical school and have completed an AOA approved rotating internship. In addition, applicants must have passed both parts I, II & III of their national boards.
Internship
During internship, one rotates through many different specialties including internal medicine, surgery, neuro-radiology, neurology, and rheumatology. Intern attends weekly ophthalmology didactics and spends one half day per week at the Schrimpf Eye Center.
First Year
The first year of residency is spent at the Charles F. Schrimpf Eye Center under the supervision of the senior resident and the attending in the clinic.
One half day a week is spent with Dr. Peets, Program Director in his office precepting. The resident shall also be responsible for attending all surgeries assigned by the senior resident. The resident shall make sure all history & physicals are done prior to surgery, and dictate all the operative reports.
Each resident must complete the home study course in ophthalmology by the AAO. Each resident is strongly encouraged to read through the series before his first ophthalmology knowledge assessment test (OKAP). The resident is required to take the OKAP test after each year of residency (i.e. three times).
Near the end of the first year the resident shall begin his first required out rotation. This is typically pediatric ophthalmology at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton with Dr. Bloom.
Second Year
At the beginning of the second year of residency the resident shall attend either the Stanford or Lancaster basic science course in ophthalmology. After this course the resident shall spend the next 18 moths either at the Eye Center or at out rotations.
There are usually 8 months of out rotations in each residents program. Seven of the 8 months must be spent fulfilling basic core requirements. These core requirements are: 2 months of glaucoma, 2 month of retina, 1 month of pediatrics, 1 month of neuroophthalmology, and 1 month of oculoplastics. Most of the required out rotations be done in Dayton with affiliated teaching staff of Grandview Hospital. Other rotations can be done at University of Cincinnati or the Ohio State University. Out of state rotations may also be arranged by the resident, but must first be approved by the program director. All out rotations must be approved by the program director and the DME at least two weeks prior to the rotation. Time out requests may be picked up in the Medical Education department. Each resident receives 2 weeks of vacation a year. These two weeks must be used in that year and are not cumulative. All vacation requests must be approved by the senior resident in the clinic and by the program director.
Third Year
The last 6 months of the residents program is typically spent as the senior at the Eye Center. It is during this last six months that most residents will do most of their surgical cases.
The senior resident of the clinic is responsible for making out the call schedule each month. He is also responsible for assigning where the junior residents will go for surgery. In addition, the senior is responsible for assigning journal articles for monthly journal reports.
CORO
Grandview participates in the CORO program by Michigan State University via videoconferences. The resident is responsible for attending each of these conferences even on out rotations. The resident will also present cases at the weekly grand rounds as assigned by MSU.
AOCOO
Each resident is strongly encouraged to attend the annual clinical assembly as well as the mid-year meeting of the American Osteopathic College of Ophthalmology (AOCOO). In addition the resident must be a member of the AOCOO. Each resident must comply with the standards of the AOCOO. These standards are published in the Basic standards of Ophthalmology and are provided to the resident. There are approximately 6 Dayton Area Society of Ophthalmology meetings a year and the residents are strongly encouraged to attend each of them.
Logs
Each resident must provide the program director with monthly logs at the completion of each month. These logs state where the resident spent the month, what surgical cases were attended and or performed, what reading was performed during that month, and what educational programs were attended.
DASO
There are approximately 6 DASO (Dayton Area Society of Ophthalmology) meetings a year and the residents are strongly encouraged to attend each of them.
Didactics
Each resident is assigned a weekly topic from the basic science series home study coarse to lecture to the other residents.
Call
Each resident will have call responsibilities as assigned by the senior resident. First priority is given to Grandview Hospital
and Southview Hospitals. In addition the resident will take call for the emergency department at Miami Valley Hospital,
level I trauma, both main and south campuses, as well as Good Samaritan Hospital on night and weeks.
Cataract Simulator
Grandview ophthalmology is fortunate to have the EyeSi simulator which uses state of the art virtual reality to simulate cataract surgery. Residents in our program can perform hundreds of virtual cataract surgeries before having to perform them on real patients!.
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