Each resident assists attending physicians in intraocular surgery. Extraocular surgery may be scheduled by the first-year resident beginning immediately in July. Starting in December of the first year, residents begin scheduling cataract surgery as the primary surgeon with an attending surgeon experienced in teaching intraocular surgery as first assistant. Elise Torczynski, MD, the ophthalmic pathologist. First-year residents are on call one to two days per week.
Backup coverage is provided by the third-year resident and an attending at all times.
There are four different services. These residents spend three months on a rotation each year. Two services include a rotation with primary retinal surgeons and two services include a rotation with primary anterior segment surgeons. Included in the anterior segment services is neuro-ophthalmology and oculoplastic surgery. In addition, the resident continues to see patients with general eye problems on a daily basis in a continuity of care clinic.