The residency program encompasses four institutions which are major teaching hospitals of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Together, they all provide diagnostic capabilities of fluorescein angiography, ultrasound, and visual fields along with several with access to digital retinal angiography, electroretinography, corneal topography, specular microscopy, and other specialized equipment.
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Case Western Reserve University
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Site Director: William J. Reinhart, MD
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-5068
Phone: 216-844-8577
Fax: 216-844-7117
E-mail: Eyes_Res@po.case.edu
UH Case Medical Center is the flagship for the residency program. All of our administrative offices and personnel are located in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, which also houses the departmental library. Departmental research facilities are located in two places, the Wearn Building in the main hospital and expanded new research facilities located adjacent to Case Medical Center in the Bert L. and Iris S. Wolstein Reserch Building.
Residents are based at UH Case Medical Center while they are on their subspecialty rotations in all years but may also travel to the satellite clinics affiliated with University Hospitals for clinics and surgeries. There are also threeafternoon resident clinics scheduled each week, with regularly scheduled specialty clinics in Cornea, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Glaucoma, Retina, and Plastics. The consultation service, which covers the floor, ER, Pediatric ER, and outside referrals is run by the chief UH resident. Overnight call is shared by the first and second year residents for this hospital only, with back-up coverage provided by the UH chief.
Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VA)
Site Director: Edward N. Burney, MD
10701 East Blvd.
Cleveland, OH 44106
Web: http://www.cleveland.med.va.gov
The Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center contains 475 beds, including nursing home care. The Center houses a major operating room with new surgical facilities, and active outpatient services serving northern and central Ohio. The Center is a major referral center for anterior segment surgery, ophthalmic plastics, and retina-vitreous disorders. A new outpatient services building, including expansion of the Ophthalmology clinics was completed in 2001 and a new clinic is scheduled to open in 2010.
The 4 person resident team at the VA Hospital get a weekly mix of clinical and surgical experiences. The chief resident works closely with each of the residents in different settings. The first year is responsible for helping the chief resident ensure that all surgical patients get the proper pre-operative assessments and arrangements. One of the second years works directly with the chief resident in taking care of post-operative patients. The other second year performs all laser under the direction and supervision of the chief resident and attendings. The chief resident is responsible for approving the referrals from the associated VA Optometry clinics as well as being primary surgeon on the majority of cases performed at the VA. Day call is covered by the Optometry service and overnight call is shared by the junior residents for both the VA and St. Vincent Hospitals.
St. Vincent Charity Medical Center
Site Director: Marc Abrams, MD, PhD
2351 E. 22nd Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Web: http://www.stvincentcharity.com
Residents obtain ambulatory experience in both general and subspecialty clinics and a variety of anterior segment, plastics and retinal surgical experience at this urban community hospital. Its charitable mission is supported by referrals of patients in need from the Lions Clubs throughout Northeast Ohio. The clinic is strongly supported by part-time and some full-time faculty, providing diverse insights from their experience in patient management in both the private and medical center setting. Didactic lectures and conferences are conducted at UH CMC, and residents are excused from clinical and surgical duties to attend these required conferences. In 2009, residents attended about 3,000 outpatient visits and 200 surgeries (196 or 97% as class I).