Louis B. Stokes VA Residency in Ocular Disease

Category:
Ocular Disease

School Affiliation:
Ohio State University College of Optometry

Residency Location:
Louis B. Stokes VA Medical Center

Louis B. Stokes VAMC - Optometry Section
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone: 216-791-3800 ext 5405
Fax: 216-707-5974

Coordinator:
Stacia S. Yaniglos, O.D. - stacia.yaniglos@med.va.gov
Residency Director:
Robert D. Newcomb, O.D., MPH - newcomb.2@osu.edu

Key Residency Information:

Residency Description:

The mission of the Ocular Disease Residency at the Louis B Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is to develop leaders in eye care, enhancing clinical competence, fostering lifelong learning in the discipline, and promoting well integrated health care.

This residency is designed to foster the skills of optometrists to enable them to manage patients with a high incidence of eye and systemic disease. Residents provide patient care with graduated supervision in the setting of a major, academically affiliated medical center, with rotations to the extended care/rehabilitation facility and freestanding outpatient clinic. Clinical care delivered cooperatively with other health professions within the framework of a comprehensive health care facility is the primary focus of this residency and is amply supplemented by rounds, journal club, case conferences, lectures, and rotations. Residents will rotate through specialized clinics [for example, Glaucoma, Contact Lens, Primary Care (Medicine) and Neuro-ophthalmology].

Key features of the residency are multiple residents, major educational and research-oriented facilities, close cooperation with an academic ophthalmology program, multiple clinical settings, and opportunity to manage challenging patients with graduated independence.

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