The surrounding area offers excellent opportunities for hiking, bicycling and sightseeing. The California wine country, Yosemite National Park, Carmel and the Pacific Ocean, and the city of San Francisco are all within convenient driving distance. The faculty of at least sixty is drawn from the sponsoring medical schools as well as from other institutions throughout the country. The course is intended primarily for residents in training and may be taken at any point in the residency program. Practicing ophthalmologists may wish to use the course as a review.
Students come from throughout the United States and many foreign countries.
Registration is the morning of July 2. Students may arrange to attend individual sections or divide the course between two years. Such requests should be noted on the application, and a more detailed schedule of the sections will be sent upon request. Fees for attendance of less than the entire course are available upon request. Fees, however, may be applied to another year's course.