Ophthalmology Fellowship

The Nationwide Children's Hospital Department of Ophthalmology and Pediatric Ophthalmology Associates are very busy clinical services and are responsible for approximately 700 outpatients visits, 60 operations, 30 ROP exams, 20 emergency room visits and 20 hospital consultations per week. This patient activity is all under the supervision of multiple staff personnel and are the strengths of the clinical fellowship program. There are multiple, regularly occurring specialty clinics in which the fellow will participate. Some include craniofacial, low vision, retina, glaucoma and oculoplastics.

Education

Educational activities are the daily part of fellow activity. The fellow participates directly and has a supervisory role in Ophthalmology Clinic with Ophthalmology residents. The fellow will also participate directly and assume a supervisory role in coverage of hospital and emergency room consults, assist staff with surgery and perform outpatient clinical care. The fellow will be required to organize journal club, attend grand rounds and lectures.

Research

The department has a very active national grant and locally supported clinical and basic science research service. The department is currently participating in seven multicenter trials in ROP, amblyopia, myopia and glaucoma. Fundamental investigations of the developing visual and ocular motor systems are being carried out by departmental personnel with the help of undergraduate, graduate and medical students and residents using highly sophisticated electrophysiological and radiological techniques.

The fellow will also participate in a clinical or basic science research project during their fellowship with the intent of finishing the project within the fellowship period.