Goal 1: To develop and expand the resident’s capacity to recognize, diagnose, treat, and manage ocular disease and ocular manifestations of systemic disease.
- Objective 1: The residents will be exposed to a wide variety of both ocular disease and ocular manifestations of systemic diseases found in our VA patient population. Each resident will examine a minimum of 1000 patients, 50% of which will be diagnosed with some form of ocular disease and/or ocular manifestations of systemic disease.
- Objective 2: The resident will demonstrate accurate observations and complete documentation in each patient encounter. They must be consistent with those of the attendings before given clinical independence.
- Objective 3: The residents will demonstrate proficiency in the diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients within specific disease categories that they encounter routinely with in the VA population.
Goal 2: To develop the residents' capability to function as an integral primary care provider in a multidisciplinary health care setting.
- Objective 1: The residents will function as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team by interacting with various health care providers. This can occur in person, by telephone, by e-mail, by EMR, or by a referred consultation.
- Objective 2: The residents will communicate, as required, with physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, laboratory or x-ray personnel, or ward secretaries when managing patients. This will be done in person, by telephone, and/or by email.
Goal 3: To provide sufficient teaching experience to permit the resident to enhance their clinical training experience.
- Objective 1: Each resident will eventually take on the responsibility of precepting the optometry externs from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), Southern College of Optometry (SCO), and Indiana University (IU).
- Objective 2: The resident will have an additional opportunity to enhance their teaching skills by serving as a clinical instructor, instructing gonioscopy workshops, didactically instructing externs, reviewing grand round cases, and tutoring externs as needed.
Goal 4: To encourage and supervise the residents in the completion of a clinical case report, clinical review, or research project of publishable quality.
- Objective 1: The residents will be responsible for submitting a manuscript of publishable quality.
- Objective 2: Residents are responsible for preparing and presenting one lecture on any topic pertaining to eye care during Geriatric Medical Grand Rounds.