Curriculum
– Baltimore
VA Residency Program
1. Didactic Academic Training
a. Attend Tuesday morning case presentations at Baltimore VA
b. Attend Thursday morning Grand Rounds at Wilmer
c. Attend Friday morning journal journal club
d. Attend Friday Afternoon Conference at Baltimore VA
e. Attend specialty conferences at Wilmer and University of
Maryland
e. Attend American
Academy of Optometry
National Conference
f. Knowledge of Educational Packet (sent out before
residency)
2. Clinical Experience
a. Providing care for patients with a wide variety of systemic
and ocular diseases including diabetes, hypertension,
vascular
disease, glaucoma, cataract, anterior segment
disease, refractive surgery, macular degeneration,
and
neuro-ocular disease
b. Perform
diagnostic testing including: automated perimetry,
matrix, FDT, GDx, A and B scan ultrasonography
c. Perform Fluorescein angiography
d. Learn chart documentation and coding for computerized
medical records
e. Consults from other departments of the hospital
f. Emergency Eye Consults
g. Ordering laboratory studies
h. Ordering neuro-imaging and vascular studies
i. Consulting other departments for patient care
j. Patient care through specialty clinics at the Baltimore VA
k. External rotations:
Elliott Myrowitz, OD – Refractive Surgery, Anterior
Anterior Segment Disease – Wilmer at Greenspring Station
Alan Robin, MD – Glaucoma Specialist
Eric Suan, MD – Retina Specialist
3. Professional Activities
a. Lecture presentations at Friday Afternoon Conference
b. Formal Lecture at Grand Rounds at PCO
c. Lecture to University
of Maryland Medical Students
d. Attend American Academy
of Optometry Annual Meeting
e. Discuss recent articles, research, technologies
f. Prepare a poster for the Academy or an article for publication
g. Supervision of 4th year optometry students during the last
quarter of the residency year