Residents can expect an environment of supervised learning in which the resident plays an essential support role in providing sub-specialty care to patients.
A strong emphasis is placed on teaching and residents can expect to teach and be taught by all members of the service including themselves, their peers, faculty, staff, medical students and patients.
While working on the neuro-ophthalmology service the resident will have the opportunity to develop and refine neuro-ophthalmic specific skills including:
- taking a thorough and focused neuro-ophthalmic history
- performing a complete new patient neuro-ophthalmic exam including but not limited to:
- lid position and function
- exophthalmometry
- ocular motility
- cranial nerve examination
- contrast sensitivity testing
- neutral density afferent testing
- forming and narrowing a differential diagnosis
- creating and implementing a plan for further diagnosis and treatment
- ordering and interpreting ophthalmic diagnostic studies including:
- visual field testing
- ocular coherence tomography
- CT and MRI imaging of the orbit and brain
- communicating with and counseling patients
- corresponding with patients’ families and other health care providers
- presenting patients in a thorough and focused manner
- performing a temporal artery biopsy