Glaucoma Fellowship
GLAUCOMA FELLOWSHIP The University of North Carolina offers a 1-year glaucoma fellowship under faculty mentors Donald Budenz, MD, MPH and Scott Lawrence, MD. The fellowship provides extensive training in all aspects of the diagnosis, clinical care and surgical management of glaucoma. While strong clinical training is the core of the program, research opportunities (both clinical and basic science) abound. Our program is supplemented by the invaluable contribution of Dr. Terete Borras, a world-renowned expert in ocular gene therapy and gene delivery for glaucoma. The fellow’s training takes place primarily at the UNC Kittner Eye Center, with state-of-the-art equipment and an electronic medical record. The glaucoma fellow will be trained in the diagnostic modalities of gonioscopy, optic disc evaluation and visual field and nerve fiber layer interpretation. Surgical training will include trabeculectomy with MMC, the Ex-PRESS Glaucoma Filtration Device, glaucoma drainage implants (Ahmed and Baerveldt), combined glaucoma and cataract surgery, complex cataract surgery (small pupil, posterior synechiae, pseudoexfoliation) and trabectome surgery. In addition, the fellow will become proficient in laser trabeculoplasty (SLT, MLT). The typical one-year fellowship consists of seeing consultation patients with full-time faculty and participating in our surgeries. The fellow will also spend up to one-half day per week supervising residents in a glaucoma and urgent care clinic and will rotate seeing consults with residents. Weekly Grand Rounds in the Ophthalmology Department are held Wednesday mornings and consist of presentations of interesting cases by residents and fellows with discussion among faculty. The glaucoma fellow will meet on a regular basis with glaucoma faculty and rotating residents to discuss interesting topics and/or journal club articles. The fellow will participate in the teaching of residents and will serve in rotation as faculty-on-call (approximately 1 out of every 8 weeks).
Each fellow is expected to complete at least one research project (clinical or basic science). The results of the research of every resident and fellow are presented in a two-day program held in the month of June. The department’s clinical faculty and basic science researchers can serve as a valuable source of ideas and resources for research projects. The department encourages and funds fellows to present their research at an academic meeting such as AAO, ARVO or AGS. The deadline for applications is October 1 of the year prior to the July 1 starting date for a fellowship. NOTE: FELLOWS ARE REQUIRED TO OBTAIN AN UNRESTRICTED FULL NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL LICENSE BEFORE BEGINNING THE FELLOWSHIP. ALL 3 PARTS OF THE USMLE MUST BE PASSED FOR A NORTH CAROLINA LICENSE.
LICENSURE
Fellows must obtain an unrestricted North Carolina state medical license prior to beginning the fellowship. All 3 parts of the USMLE must be passed for the North Carolina medical license.
SALARY & BENEFITS
The UNC Department of Ophthalmology provides funding for this fellowship with salary support, medical malpractice insurance, and health benefits. Fellows will be paid at the PGY-5 level, as established by the office of Graduate Medical Education.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applicants should apply to the SFMatch (www.sfmatch.org) and complete the CAS Glaucoma Fellowship application. Interviews will be held at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) meeting in Orlando, Florida on October 23, 2011. An alternate interview date will be scheduled in November in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Our Mission our Values
Our goal at UNC Eye is to improve the health of North Carolinians and others whom we serve in an environment of service excellence. We will accomplish this by providing leadership in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.
Core Values
Patient Care
As the Department of Ophthalmology at UNC, we will provide premier eye care to North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We will maintain our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations. Excellence in education and research will enhance our delivery of the highest quality eye care which will be delivered in an environment that is exceptionally welcoming, collegial and supportive both for those receiving and those providing the care.
Education
The UNC Department of Ophthalmology is dedicated to providing a current and comprehensive educational program to its resident physicians, fellows, and medical students. Our goal is to produce leaders in the field of ophthalmology who are medically, surgically, and culturally competent. The department will work to create an environment that fosters innovation and progress within the program through open lines of communication. We will continually strive to offer and incorporate the most innovative and medically relevant learning resources available, both within and beyond UNC borders. We will endeavor to educate our colleagues in ophthalmology and other medical fields on how to provide better eye care to our patients.
Research
We committed to the support of excellence in clinical, basic and translational eye research. It will support the development of state of the art research laboratories with national and international recognition. UNC Eye also is committed to the study of new treatments in human disease through participation in large scale multicenter, federally or privately sponsored trials and to the understanding of eye diseases through the close collaboration between its clinicians and basic research scientists. The research mission of UNC Eye is to pioneer new ideas and technologies which will set up the stage for better and alternative treatments of eye diseases in the near future.
Faculty and Staff
Here at UNC Eye will strive to recruit and retain the highest quality faculty, staff, residents and fellows while supporting the professional development and continuing education of all employees.
Our Mission, Our Values
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Dr. Donald Budenz, Dr. Jonathan Dutton and Dr. Travis Meredith of the UNC Department of Ophthalmology have been rated by US News and Castle Connolly’s estimation to be in the top 1 percent of all doctors in the nation in their specialities for 2012. |
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