Call Call schedule is made by the residents after the first month. First year call is in-house every fourth night, covering the emergency room, after hours floor consults and phone calls. Second year trauma call does back-up call from home.
All emergency surgery is done by the second year resident with the on-call attending physician.
Third year residents are on call from home daily during their Chief rotations. Surgical Experience Resident experience in performing eye surgery is extensive and is distributed over the three year training period. Most residents perform well over 100 intraocular cases as the primary surgeon, including topical clear cornea cataract extraction, glaucoma filtering surgery, corneal transplantation, and vitrectomy. In addition, residents perform a large number of strabismus procedures, scleral buckling operations, and oculoplastic procedures. Over the last four years, training in phacoemulsification with implantation of foldable intraocular lenses has become standard.