Ophthalmology
OP 501M.8 5
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Description
OP501M.8 introduces students to the specialty of ophthalmology through an apprenticeship model. Students are paired with a comprehensive ophthalmologist and a sub-specialty ophthalmologist in clinical and surgical practice. Students will have increasing responsibility as the rotation progresses through the weeks commensurate with ability. Students will also have shifts in the Emergency Ward and on the Ophthalmology Consult Service where they will be expected to work up patients and present to residents, fellows, and attendings overseeing the service. The rotation goals are to expand knowledge of eye disease, refine eye examination skills, and become familiar with the activities of an ophthalmic clinician working in an academic practice. In addition, students will develop relationships with faculty preceptors, who may continue as mentors advocating for students who decide to pursue ophthalmology residency.
Students will receive an e-mail 2 days before the start of the rotation introducing their mentors, outlining clinical and surgical sessions for the month, specifying didactic sessions, and providing learning resources. Students will be issued a basic set of ophthalmic lenses to use in clinic. Teaching sessions will include a slit-lamp biomicroscopy tutorial, indirect ophthalmoscopy tutorial, wet lab session to practice on a surgical simulator and under an operating microscope, and a case-discussion series, all of which will be led by faculty teachers. Finally, students will attend conferences such as Grand Rounds and Resident lectures.
Evaluations include a mid-rotation feedback meeting with the clerkship director and an end-of-rotation summative and formative evaluation based on feedback from each primary mentors as well as any other faculty or houseofficers designated by the student. Grading will be based on the following rubric:
Honors with Distinction: Superior fund of knowledge, prepares in advance for clinic and surgery sessions, empathetic interaction with patients and families, works well with department staff, shows progressive attainment and mastery of a few examination skills, independently works up patients and provides oral patient presentations where clinically appropriate, asks thoughtful and probing questions about patient care, integrates background reading with clinical and surgical cases to demonstrate evidence-based and experiential learning, and formulates an assessment and plan for patients.
Honors: Good fund of knowledge, strong understanding of patient conditions in clinic and surgery, empathetic interactions with patients and families, respectful interactions with staff, shows incremental progress in a few examination skills, independently works up patients and provides oral patient presentations where clinically appropriate, asks questions about patient care, and begins to see connections between background reading and clinical and surgical cases.
Satisfactory: Understands basic concepts, listens and learns about individual patient conditions during clinic and surgery, shows basic understanding of the ophthalmic examination, asks some questions about patient care, and understands to read about patient conditions.
Unsatisfactory: Does not plan ahead, difficulty retaining basic concepts once explained, not engaged in patient care.
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