The residency in ophthalmology at Northwestern McGaw is a three-year program with a prerequisite of at least one year of postgraduate preparation in clinical medicine or surgery. This year may be taken at any accredited institution.
Ophthalmology residents spend three-month rotations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Children's Memorial Hospital, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. The program is constructed so that residents can follow patients consistently during the entire 36 months.
Residents divide their time between outpatient clinics and inpatient activities, including surgery and consultations at all four hospitals. The level of faculty supervision is consistent with the independence and responsibility of individual residents.
Subspecialty services are administered by one or more faculty members with expertise in areas including cornea and external disease, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, oculoplastic surgery, ophthalmic pathology, pediatric ophthalmology, refractive surgery, and surgical and medical retinal disease. Exposure to subspecialty services occurs during the entire course of the residency but is particularly intensive during the second year.
At the conclusion of the program, each resident will have performed more than 100 intraocular and more than 50 nonintraocular procedures as primary surgeon. In addition, residents assist faculty physicians on an approximately equal number of cases.
Formal lectures are scheduled several days each week. A citywide basic science program is presented on Saturday mornings during the academic year. Grand rounds takes place weekly at one of the hospitals. Visiting lecturers are invited quarterly.
Four residency positions are available annually, which are committed through the Ophthalmology Matching Program. Information is available at the San Francisco Matching Program Web site: www.sfmatch.org.
Candidates must graduate from an approved U.S. medical school or pass the USMLE and TOEFL qualifying examinations. Foreign medical school graduates must qualify for an Illinois medical license. Applicants must complete at least one year of postgraduate preparation in clinical medicine or surgery, which may be taken at any accredited institution.
Lee M. Jampol, MD
Louis Feinberg, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology
Michael A. Rosenberg, MD
Ann E. Bidwell, MD
For more information, contact Residency Program Coordinator Susan Stuecheli, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 645 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 440, Chicago, Illinois 60611-5800, 312/908-8152; fax 312/503-8152 or visit the Department of Ophthalmology Web site.
Email: s-stuecheli@northwestern.edu
Ophthalmology