Ophthalmology Residency
Mission & Vision
The mission of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Ophthalmology Residency Program is to provide outstanding training in the medical and surgical management of ophthalmic diseases, allowing residents to become competent to independently practice ophthalmology.
Mission & Vision
The mission of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Ophthalmology Residency Program is to provide outstanding training in the medical and surgical management of ophthalmic diseases, allowing residents to become competent to independently practice ophthalmology.
Program Director’s Welcome
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute regards the education of ophthalmology residents as one of its highest priorities, ensuring the future vitality of our profession. The institute serves as the Department of Ophthalmology for Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. The institute has earned recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the top eye department in the nation. Ophthalmology Times has ranked the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the top Overall Ophthalmology Program, Best in Clinical Care and Best Residency Program in the U.S. Many graduates from the institute’s training programs have become chairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout the world.
Program Director’s Welcome
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute regards the education of ophthalmology residents as one of its highest priorities, ensuring the future vitality of our profession. The institute serves as the Department of Ophthalmology for Jackson Memorial Hospital and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. The institute has earned recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the top eye department in the nation. Ophthalmology Times has ranked the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute as the top Overall Ophthalmology Program, Best in Clinical Care and Best Residency Program in the U.S. Many graduates from the institute’s training programs have become chairs at medical schools and teaching hospitals throughout the world.
A large, full-time faculty provides representation and depth in all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology. Subspecialty faculty actively participate in all patient care areas, including glaucoma, cornea/external disease, oculoplastics, uveitis, vitreoretinal disease, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular oncology and pediatric ophthalmology. Staffing of all resident surgical cases and clinics is provided by faculty. Members of the faculty have a strong interest in resident education, outstanding clinical and teaching abilities, and a commitment to scholarly activity.
Residents are actively involved in ophthalmic research. All human subject research is conducted under direct faculty supervision following approval of the research protocol by the University of Miami Institutional Review Boards. The William L. McKnight Vision Research Center contains several basic science research laboratories with opportunities for residents to participate in basic science research. An elective rotation during the third year of residency allows a focused research experience and residents have a 2-week, fully funded international elective in the 4th year. The clinical faculty are actively involved in clinical studies spanning all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology and resident collaboration is encouraged. A full-time biostatistics group assists in study design and analysis of results. Residents are provided with departmental support to present research results at national scientific forums, such as annual meetings of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and Retina Society. The residents have unlimited access to audiovisual assistance from the Ophthalmic Photography Department.
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is a free-standing eye hospital with an ophthalmic emergency room that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hospital contains 24 fully equipped examination rooms that are dedicated exclusively for residents and 96 similarly equipped rooms are shared by residents and faculty. There are nine ophthalmic operating rooms and state-of the-art diagnostic equipment available. Residents have unrestricted access to all supporting diagnostic services, operating room facilities and staff. An ophthalmic library on-site contains more than 15,000 ophthalmic textbooks, subscribes to more than 200 ophthalmic journals and has an extensive collection of instructional videos and slides. The library is accessible during the night and weekend and online access is available for literature searches. Additionally, a general medical library is located directly adjacent to the eye hospital.
-Steven J. Gedde, MD
Description
A large, full-time faculty provides representation and depth in all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology. Subspecialty faculty actively participate in all patient care areas, including glaucoma, cornea/external disease, oculoplastics, uveitis, vitreoretinal disease, neuro-ophthalmology, ocular oncology and pediatric ophthalmology. Staffing of all resident surgical cases and clinics is provided by faculty. Members of the faculty have a strong interest in resident education, outstanding clinical and teaching abilities, and a commitment to scholarly activity.
Residents are actively involved in ophthalmic research. All human subject research is conducted under direct faculty supervision following approval of the research protocol by the University of Miami Institutional Review Boards. The William L. McKnight Vision Research Center contains several basic science research laboratories with opportunities for residents to participate in basic science research. An elective rotation during the third year of residency allows a focused research experience and residents have a 2-week, fully funded international elective in the 4th year. The clinical faculty are actively involved in clinical studies spanning all subspecialty areas of ophthalmology and resident collaboration is encouraged. A full-time biostatistics group assists in study design and analysis of results. Residents are provided with departmental support to present research results at national scientific forums, such as annual meetings of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and Retina Society. The residents have unlimited access to audiovisual assistance from the Ophthalmic Photography Department.
The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is a free-standing eye hospital with an ophthalmic emergency room that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The hospital contains 24 fully equipped examination rooms that are dedicated exclusively for residents and 96 similarly equipped rooms are shared by residents and faculty. There are nine ophthalmic operating rooms and state-of the-art diagnostic equipment available. Residents have unrestricted access to all supporting diagnostic services, operating room facilities and staff. An ophthalmic library on-site contains more than 15,000 ophthalmic textbooks, subscribes to more than 200 ophthalmic journals and has an extensive collection of instructional videos and slides. The library is accessible during the night and weekend and online access is available for literature searches. Additionally, a general medical library is located directly adjacent to the eye hospital.
-Steven J. Gedde, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Residents per Year?
7
Duration of Residency?
3 years
Program Curriculum
Year 1 (Internship)
The UM/Jackson Health System Ophthalmology Residency Program has a joint internal medicine internship for the first year. Residents spend 12 weeks of the year on ophthalmology rotations at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Year 2
Upon completion of the internship, the second year introduces ophthalmology residents to evaluating patients in the emergency room and continuity clinics at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Miami VA Medical Center. Patients are examined and presented to supervising faculty. First year residents spend time in the Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory preparing gross specimens for microscopic processing and serving as the initial reader of slides with light microscopy. Experience is gained in performing inpatient consultations at Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Year 3
In year three, second year ophthalmology residents spend most of their time rotating through the subspecialty services. Focused training is provided in glaucoma, pediatric ophthalmology, retina, uveitis, cornea/external disease, neuro-ophthalmology and oculoplastics. Second year residents gain surgical exposure as the primary surgeon performing subspecialty surgeries under direct faculty supervision. Surgical procedures include trabeculectomy and tube shunt implantation on the glaucoma rotation, muscle surgery on the pediatric ophthalmology rotation and eyelid procedures on the oculoplastics rotation. Second year residents are also introduced to cataract extraction while working at the Miami VA Medical Center.
Year 4
During the fourth year, third year residents perform a large volume of cataract surgery and subspecialty procedures as the primary surgeon under direct faculty supervision. The majority of time is spent in the continuity clinics providing preoperative and postoperative care to patients. Third year residents play an active role in mentoring younger residents while working in the clinic, emergency room and during inpatient consultations. An elective rotation provides an opportunity for focused ophthalmic research. An international elective allows exposure to the provision of ophthalmic care in other regions of the world for a period of two weeks with full departmental funding.
Your Faculty
Eduardo C. Alfonso, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Ophthalmology
Steven J. Gedde, MD
Vice Chair, Education, Department of Ophthalmology
Director, Ophthalmology Residency Program
Chrisfouad R. Alabiad, MD
Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
Associate Professor, Clinical Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology
Associate Director, Ophthalmology Residency Program
Alumni Placements Include:
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Duke University
Kaiser Permanente
Stanford University
Alumni Placements Include:
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Duke University
Kaiser Permanente
Stanford University
Notable Alumni
Thomas Aaberg, MD
1997
Emory University
Gary Abrams, MD
1978
Wayne State University
Eduardo C. Alfonso, MD
1984
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
George Blankenship, MD
Honorary Alumni
Penn State
Mark Blumenkranz, MD
1980
Stanford University
Edward Buckley, MD
1983
Duke University
Donald Budenz, MD, MPH
1992
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stanley Chang, MD
1980
Columbia University
Stephen Christiansen, MD
1991
Boston University
John Clarkson, MD
1976
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Brian Conway, MD
1976
University of Virginia
Donald D’Amico, MD
1982
Cornell University
William Driebe, MD
1984
University of Florida
Jeff Goldberg, MD, PhD
2010
Stanford University
Froncie Guttman, MD
1965
Cleveland Clinic
Jeff Henderer, MD
1998
Temple University
Dale Heuer, MD
1984
Medical College of Wisconsin
Dan Jones, MD
1969
Baylor College of Medicine
Lanning Kline, MD
1978
The University of Alabama
Malcolm Luxenberg, MD
1966
Medical College of Georgia
Robert Machemer, MD
1968
Duke University
William Mieler, MD
1985
The University of Chicago
Richard Parrish, MD
1982
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
Jose Pulido, MD
1988
University of Illinois at Chicago
David Quillen, MD
1995
Penn State
Douglas Rhee, MD
2000
Case Western Reserve University
John Shock, MD
1971
University of Arkansas
Gregory Skuta, MD
1987
The University of Oklahoma
James Tsai, MD
1994
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
Sonal Tuli, MD
2001
University of Florida
Jane Weiss, MD
1993
Louisiana State University
Charles Wilkinson, MD
1971
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Darrell WuDunn, MD, PhD
1995
University of Florida, Jacksonville