Journal article
Integrating the Internship into Ophthalmology Residency Programs: Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology American Academy of Ophthalmology White Paper
Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.), Vol.123(9), pp.2037-2041
09/2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.06.021
PMID: 27423312
Abstract
Future ophthalmologists will need to have broad skills to thrive in complex health care organizations. However, training for ophthalmologists does not take advantage of all of the postgraduate years (PGYs). Although the traditional residency years seem to have little excess capacity, enhancing the internship year does offer an opportunity to expand the time for ophthalmology training in the same 4 PGYs. Integrating the internship year into residency would allow control of all of the PGYs, allowing our profession to optimize training for ophthalmology. In this white paper, we propose that we could capture an additional 6 months of training time by integrating basic ophthalmology training into the intern year. This would allow 6 additional months to expand training in areas such as quality improvement or time for "mini-fellowships" to allow graduates to develop a deeper set of skills.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Integrating the Internship into Ophthalmology Residency Programs: Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology American Academy of Ophthalmology White Paper
- Creators
- Thomas A Oetting - University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Electronic address: thomas-oetting@uiowa.eduEduardo C Alfonso - Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FloridaAnthony Arnold - Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CaliforniaLouis B Cantor - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IndianaKeith Carter - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IowaOscar A Cruz - St. Louis University, St. Louis, MissouriSteven Feldon - Flaum Eye Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Department of Ophthalmology, Rochester, New YorkBartly Mondino - Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, CaliforniaDavid W Parke IISuzann Pershing - Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Stanford, CaliforniaTara Uhler - Thomas Jefferson University/Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaNicholas J Volpe - Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.), Vol.123(9), pp.2037-2041
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.06.021
- PMID
- 27423312
- ISSN
- 0161-6420
- eISSN
- 1549-4713
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/2016
- Academic Unit
- Otolaryngology; Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983979961502771
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