This study aimed to determine the role of electronic health record software in resident education by evaluating documentation of 30 elements extracted from the American Academy of Ophthalmology Dry Eye Syndrome Preferred Practice Pattern. The Kresge Eye Institute transitioned to using electronic health record software in June 2013. We evaluated the charts of 331 patients examined in the residen...

BACKGROUND South Africa has a 32-year history of training ophthalmic nurse practitioners (ONPs). The role and required skills and competencies of ONPs are not well documented in the international literature and are also absent from South African publications, including South African Nursing Council publications. AIM This study aims to inform curriculum development and human resource planning ...

BACKGROUND Few objective standards are available to assess the educational effectiveness of ophthalmology residency programs. As a possible measure, we evaluated the first-time failure (FTF) rate in the examinations of the American Board of Ophthalmology, defined as a first-attempt failure in the written examination or a first-attempt failure in the oral examination after having passed the writ...

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*Colonel, US Army (Ret); Ophthalmology Residency Program Director, Department of Ophthalmology, The Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, and Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4799; formerly, Consultant in Ophthalmology to The Surgeon General, US Army, and Ophthalmology Residency Program Dire...

PURPOSE To determine the incidence of and risk factors for posterior capsule rupture and vitreous loss during phacoemulsification performed by ophthalmology residents. SETTING Academic ophthalmology resident training center, Tehran, Iran. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS This study included patients who had phacoemulsification by ophthalmology residents from August 2010 to August 201...

*1* Post Graduate, Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 2 Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 3 Professor and Head of the Department Department of Ophthalmology, Rajah Muthiah medical college and hospital, Annamalainagar, Chidambaram. 4 Associate Professo...

BACKGROUND Academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. For this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. The main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of Ophthalmology in Iran from 2007 to 2010 METHODS A qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

OBJECTIVES To assess agreement among ophthalmology residents and a glaucoma expert in the evaluation of cross-sectional glaucomatous optic nerve head characteristics using stereoscopic photographs. METHODS Twenty stereo photographs were analyzed by ophthalmology residents just after completion of their first (First-Year Group) or third (Third-Year Group) year of residency and by a glaucoma ex...

Objective The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has mandated that residency programs document progression of competency-based outcomes. The Ophthalmic Clinical Evaluation Exercise (OCEX) assesses clinical skills in ophthalmology residents during patient encounters. Although OCEX has been validated for assessing several of the ACGME-mandated competencies, it was unclea...