SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Ophthalmology Residency

Program #:
2403521113

Sponson:

SUNY-Downstate Department of Ophthalmology
450 Clarkson Ave Box 58
Brooklyn, NY 11203

Residency Coordinator/Contact:
Joyce E. Kotlowitz - joyce.kotlowitz@downstate.edu
Phone: 718-270-1962
Fax: 718-270-2972

Residency Director:
Monica Dweck, MD Monica Dweck, MD - Phone:
Fax: 718-270-2972

Key Residency Information:

Residency Description:

The department currently provides a three-year postgraduate training program for 21 residents, with six or seven new candidates accepted each year. Residents benefit from the wisdom of a large, expert faculty with a deep commitment to teaching, and they have the opportunity to work with the latest diagnostic and therapeutic equipment. The organized teaching program consists of approximately 350 hours of didactic lectures per residency, covering all subspecialty areas within ophthalmology. One afternoon a week residents leave the clinic areas and report to Downstate for an afternoon of grand rounds case presentations followed by didactics. Special program features include a four-week annual basic science course at Columbia Presbyterian for second-year residents. In addition, all residents attend a weekly, three-hour cooperative course collaboratively sponsored by several major New York City-based residency training programs. The SUNY Downstate program offers outstanding training in surgery, with work including microsurgical laboratories, strabismus, and laser surgery in the first year; cataract surgery, pterygium removal, glaucoma surgery, vitrectomy, retinal repair, and extracapsular cataract techniques in the second year. The senior year's surgery training includes work to supplement previously given courses. All residents exceed the minimum surgical requirements set by the Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). It is expected that the senior residents will all perform more than 120 cataract cases. A comparable experience is gained in ocular trauma, glaucoma surgery, retinal surgery and laser surgery.

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