The average number of interviews for matched individuals was 12, and 4 for unmatched individuals. Remember that your success in obtaining a position depends on your credentials, not the number of interviews.
On the other hand, any applicant, regardless of academic record, should avoid applying to only a very few number of programs. Each program evaluates applicants according to slightly different criteria. All residency programs are concerned with past academic performance including grades in preclinical and clinical courses in medical school , a well-founded interest in ophthalmology and promising personal characteristics and work habits as reflected in letters of recommendation.
Some programs may place importance on additional factors, such as research experience or career goals. It is easiest to answer this question by considering the perspective of the program director.
He or she will have to work with you for multiple years--interacting academically, professionally and personally. If you were the director, how would you evaluate resident candidates? All applicants entering ophthalmology training programs must complete a post-graduate clinical year PGY-1 in an accredited program.
The PGY-1 year must include direct patient care experience in fields such as emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, or a transitional internship. A new requirement by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education effective July 1, requires the PGY-1 year be provided in an integrated or joint preliminary program.
Most ophthalmology residency programs conduct their interviews from November to January , most interviewing just a fraction of their total applicants. Some programs will interview candidates in large groups, some will interview only a few on a given day. Others schedule only a single short interview session or construct a full-day program with multiple interviews. Please note that during the match cycle, all interviews will be virtual.
This link will give you tips for a successful virtual residency interview. Ophthalmology training programs recognize and appreciate that applicants have limited time available for interviews. Once a program has decided to interview an applicant, it will generally try to be flexible in scheduling. However, remember that each program has only a limited number of interview days available and will therefore have limited flexibility.
To allow applicants to better know programs they may be deciding between, optional program visits are being offered after the program has submitted their rank list, but before applicants submit theirs. When scheduling program visits after your interview, look to see if other programs have program visit days in the same geographic area, as it may be possible to arrange site visits so that a minimum of expensive air travel is necessary.
When traveling to an unfamiliar city for an interview, try to give yourself some free time to explore the city so as to evaluate not just the program but its environment as well. Second-year residents build their skill levels and perform cataract surgery, repair lacerations and globe ruptures, as well as more complicated strabismus procedures and eye plastic procedures under direct faculty supervision.
They perform biopsies, lesion excisions, and laser surgery. It is typical for second-year residents to perform cataract extractions. By the end of the residency, each resident will have been first surgeon on approximately - cataract procedures. Second-year residents should be capable of evaluating any patient and creating a valid treatment plan. PGY3 residents complete one 3. They have a PGY4 surgical resident available for assistance at all times.
By the end of the third year each resident will be able to deliver high quality ophthalmic care independently. Each will be able to interpret all tests and studies, make a diagnosis, initiate therapy, and perform a broad range of ophthalmic surgical procedures on both routine and complicated cases.
Third-year residents perform all types of surgical procedures under direct faculty supervision. After they have gained extensive experience with common procedures, training time is devoted to complex clinical and surgical cases with faculty supervision.
Comprehensive: Dr. Marcelle Morcos Dr. Alexander Hatsis Dr. Caroline Alexander. Retina: Dr. Robert Lopez Dr. John Alexander. Glaucoma Dr. Stanley Berke Dr. Richard Gotlib. Cornea: Dr. Henry Perry Dr. Eric Donnenfeld Dr. John Pilavas. Pediatrics and ROP: Dr. Maury Marmor Dr. Eric Roberts. Uveitis: Dr. Raphael Rosenbaum.
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