They are required to submit their work in manuscript form to a peer review journal. The resident rotation schedule is divided into blocks. Residents spend time in general clinic, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, and oculoplastics. During the rotation at CEI, residents spend four months each in the Cornea Service and in the Retina Service. The four-month VA rotation is primarily surgical.
Residents are responsible for inpatient and outpatient care at each institution.
Their overall responsibilities increase as skills develop. Special clinics are held in contact lens, lacrimal disease, plastic surgery, glaucoma, retina, genetic disease, motility, neuro-ophthalmology, cornea and external disease. Each specialty clinic is staffed by an expert in the field who is available to assist residents with difficult cases. Planned individual teaching sessions are given weekly or bi-weekly by the staff member in charge. Residents are encouraged to read classic and current literature for discussion with the senior staff member.