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Just wanted to survey those of you in private practice - What is the frequency of ER Call and does your hospital compensate for said call? We have been in a situation where call was for 1 week at a time, 1 week out of 5, then 1 week out of 4 due to a provider leaving, with no comprensation...

The usual schedule for oral boards involves three testing groups. If you are in group 1, you register for the test Friday evening and test Saturday morning. Group 2 registers Saturday morning and tests Saturday afternoon. Group 3 registers Saturday evening and tests Sunday morning. As a...

As a UTSW residency graduate, can probably shed some light on this question at least at it relates to UTSW. The program director generally discourages away rotations for the applicants from UTSW, but does still offer away rotations to students from other med schools. Durign the rotation, you...

I do take call for the local hospital, 1 week at a time every 5th week. Hospital is not a trauma center. Have had two open globes in 2.5 years, both small corneal lacs, neither actually came through ED (one sent from an optom, 1 sent from a family doc in a rural area an hour away). Three or...

Trained at UTSW. Currently in a city of approx. 50,000 with large rural catchment area.

Weekly schedule is as follows: Monday is surgery day, typically do 15-20 phacos, plus an occasional bleph or strab case. I start at 7:30, done by 11 or 11:30 depending on the caseload for that day. Off in the afternoon. Tuesday See postops and general patients (8-4 with break from 12-1), with...

If you're really interested in general ophthalmology plus injections and lasers, assuming you come from a retina heavy residency program, you should have enough experience to do a good number of injections for RVO, DME, and AMD as well as lasers without a separate medical retina fellowship. I...

My program had 9 residents per year which was great. As long as there is enough surgery and clinical experience to go around (our program probably could have had 10-11 per year without the clinical and surgical experience suffering) I think more residents can be better. If someone gets sick or...

Here's a link to the article about the phaco learning curve which is most often cited regarding the decrease in complication rate and increase in efficiency as the number of cases increases: http://www.v2020la.org/pub/PUBLICATIONS_BY_TOPICS/Residency%20training/The%20Resident%20Surgeon....pdf

To reply to the concerns about cataract numbers... I finished residency in 2012 and now am in private practice doing comprehensive ophthalmology including a pretty good volume of cataract surgery. 100 is probably the bare minimum to feel comfortable doing cataract surgery. There have been...

- Busy surgical volume - at least 180-200 cataracts as primary surgeon and diverse experience in other procedures - Presence of a county hospital or VA medical center or both (this helps a lot with surgical volume) - Representation of all subspecialties on faculty - Happy residents - look not...

Hi everyone, passed the written boards this spring and taking orals in Chicago in October and was just wondering about any thoughts on some of the review books available for oral boards. Oral boards seem to be a different animal in comparison to all of the written multiple choice exams we've...

--Board Scores: Step 1 : 252 Step 2: 243 --AOA and class rank: AOA, likely top 10% --Reputation of medical school: top 25 --Research: International research --Honors in clerkships: Medicine, Surgery, OB/GYN, Psych, Peds, FP --# and where you did away rotations: None --# of programs you...

Adding EVMS

Have: November 16 Want: November 17 or 19