{"id":8653,"date":"2023-12-04T13:14:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T18:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/?page_id=8653"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:41:46","slug":"ophthalmology-residency-program-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/education-programs\/ophthalmology-residency-program-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Residency Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><div class=\"row  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-2 col-md-2 col-xs-2 col-sm-2 oscitas-bootstrap-container\"><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kMv_XY9mMxY\" title=\"UNC Ophthalmology Residency Program\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-2 col-md-2 col-xs-2 col-sm-2 oscitas-bootstrap-container\"><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Department of Ophthalmology at UNC offers a 3-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited residency training program. Through a joint UNC Ophthalmology-UNC Internal Medicine internship program, in their first 12 months of residency, our first-year residents (PGY1) learn through a combined internal medicine and ophthalmology curriculum. Four residents match to the program each year, for a total of 12 residents in training each academic year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row  oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4 col-sm-4 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/08\/PGY2-Bryce-Champlain-Patient-Teesha-2-e1693339316918-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/08\/PGY2-Bryce-Champlain-Patient-Teesha-2-e1693339316918-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/08\/PGY2-Bryce-Champlain-Patient-Teesha-2-e1693339316918.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4 col-sm-4 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Zhang-teaching-resident-Jamie-USE-scaled-e1666925134314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"250\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-lg-4 col-md-4 col-xs-4 col-sm-4 oscitas-bootstrap-container\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2022\/10\/Pg.-3-Budenz-USE2-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Ophthalmology at UNC offers a 3-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited residency training program. 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