Physical Facilities

The clinics are located in a new building that includes 27 well-equipped examination rooms. Photography, visual field perimeters, ultrasonography, low vision services and lasers (Argon, Krypton, Dye, YAG) are all located in this facility. Most surgery is performed in the recently constructed Outpatient Surgery Center located at the hospital, and a smaller number of cases are done in the inpatient hospital operating rooms.

Outpatient clinic activity provides trainees with ample routine ophthalmologic care and referrals for tertiary consultations. The surgical volume provides good exposure to common and more complex surgical procedures.

The Veterans Hospital has an eye clinic with four examination rooms. Surgery is performed in the main operating rooms and represents a significant volume for the resident's overall surgical experience. Recent acquisition of new equipment, including phacoemulsification equipment and lasers, makes this location an excellent rotation.

The following figures give an indication of the department's clinical activity.

Didactic Instruction

Didactic instruction is provided in several settings. Approximately six hours per week are devoted to lectures by the faculty and/or to clinical conferences in various sub-specialty areas. Each year, several visiting professors are invited to lecture and to provide informal teaching sessions oriented to residents.

Resident participation is encouraged at several departmental conferences intended to serve as continuing education for the practicing ophthalmologists of our area.

During outpatient rotations, residents participate in teaching third- and fourth-year medical students.

Post Residency

Fellowships: In recent years, most residents have gone on to post-residency fellowships at university institutions.

Practice: About 20 percent of UW residents have entered academic ophthalmology, and 80 percent have entered group or individual practices in states ranging from New York to Hawaii.

Research

Opportunities are available for residents to work with faculty in the laboratory or on clinical projects. Each second-year and third-year resident is expected to present original work or a review of recent literature, preferably with case reports, at our annual Resident's Day seminar.

Sample Resident's lectures are as follows:

• Posterior Lamellar Endothelial Keratoplasty: Procedure and Early Outcomes
• Optical Coherence Tomographic Findings After Vitrectomy for Epiretinal Membrane
• Pars Planitis in Monozygotic Twin Boys
• Recurrent Exudative Detachments After PDT for Idiopathic Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
• Laser in situ Keratomileusis for Astigmatism Following Laser Thermal Keratoplasty
• The Effect of Subtenon's Steroid Injection on Macular Edema as Measured by OCT
• Staphylococcus Epidermidis Growth in the Presence of Ophthalmic Viscoelastics
• Functional Filtering Bleb Development Associated with Scleritis
• Outcomes of Simultaneous Penetrating Keratoplasty and Glaucoma Drainage Device
• Digital Image Processing of the Eyelids

Correlation Between Optical Coherence Tomography and Photographic Measurements of Macular Hole Diameter

Conference and Lecture Schedule

1. Fourth Monday each month.
2. Every other Wednesday of each month at the School of Veterinary Medicine during academic year.
3. Second Wednesday each month during academic year.
4. During academic year (none in May through August).
5. First Saturday of each month.