Despite an 81% successful match rate among United States senior medical students in 2016 in the ophthalmology match (the San Francisco Match), the average number of programs each applicant applies to increased from 45 to 68 from 2006 through 2016, an increase that likely indicates a perceived increase in the competitiveness of matching into an ophthalmology residency program. This perception is...

PURPOSE To determine the match rate and predictors of matching into an ophthalmology residency. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS All 746 candidates who submitted an application for the 2011 ophthalmology residency match. METHODS The Ophthalmology Residency Matching Program applicant database was reviewed to determine applicant characteristics and match outcomes...

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, ...

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...