BACKGROUND Resident procedure minimums have been established in surgical training programs to ensure adequate training experience. However, achievement of these minimums may fluctuate. Review of resident experience is essential for maintaining successful training curricula. OBJECTIVE To evaluate trends in ophthalmology resident surgical experience from 2009 to 2015. METHODS This was a datab...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated satisfaction with medical residency programs from the perspective of residents or recent graduates. Knowledge of current conditions of teaching might help to identify deficiencies and to provide adequate training. So, the aim of this study was to assess the satisfaction with residency training and to identify deficiencies in this training from the perspecti...

Residency training is an essential phase of metamorphosis in the life cycle of a medical student that marks the transformation of a theoretical generalist into a practically oriented specialist gearing up to assume personal responsibility for patient care. Over the years, the process of surgical training has evolved from an unstructured apprenticeship of unlimited duration in the distant past, ...

PURPOSE To inform ophthalmologists of the current status of visual training. DESIGN Personal perspective. METHOD A perspective and analysis of current practices that include a review of the literature and personal experiences of the author. RESULTS Visual training of some sort has been used for centuries. In the first half of the twentieth century, in cooperation with ophthalmologists, or...

The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. Competence can only be determined by appropriately assessing resident performance. There are accepted guiding principles that should be applied to competence assessment methods. These principles are enumerated herein and ophthalmology-specific assessment tools that are available are described.

PURPOSE To evaluate the perspective of ophthalmology residents in the US about their residency programs and compare the competency of residency programs to international competency levels set by the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO). METHODS A cross-sectional web-based survey extracted from the ICO published competency standards was sent to program directors of ophthalmology reside...