BACKGROUND/AIM Oral examinations are required for board certification in Ophthalmology in the USA. The current literature offers no recommendation on the number of administrations during residency. The purpose of this study was to determine how often oral examinations (OEs) should be administered and what effects repeated OEs might have on residents' comfort level with OEs and confidence level ...

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...

Competence can be defined as “the ability to do something well.” The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. To prove competence, appropriate assessment methods are required. These methods should follow certain principles of assessment. Teaching ophthalmologist's time is valuable and limited and often poorly or uncompensated. Thus any assessment should...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has mandated that residency programs, including ophthalmology, teach and assess specific competencies, including systems-based learning. We review the pertinent literature on systems-based learning for ophthalmology and recommend specific ‘‘good practices’’ to manage the ACGME mandate. Tools are required that both teach and assess...

PURPOSE To describe the main success attitudes of young ophthalmologists in the first decade of their career. METHODS This descriptive study comprised subjects selected from a sample of ophthalmologists who were participating in a congress, using a semi-structured questionnaire. The inclusion criteria were as follows: ophthalmologists under the age of 40 years, within 5-10 years from ophthalm...

BACKGROUND Medical educators, residents and administrators have increasing access to a large quantity of electronic resources. This content can augment and improve our teaching methods but can be difficult to consolidate and present. A multitude of electronic learning management systems are available to help organize and serve this content though never with small residency programs as the targe...

Clinician-scientists are becoming increasingly rare in medicine as a whole, but especially in ophthalmology. There is a structural gap between MD-PhD training and K-series awards where interested candidates go through residency and fellowship without any structured research exposure or involvement. Furthermore, the success rate of the MD-PhD and K awards leaves much to be desired. The authors p...