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The residency offers outstanding board certified faculty, as well as opportunities to excel in both basic and clinical ophthalmic research. UMKC Department of Ophthalmology offers diversity in patient population, ophthalmic diseases and types of eye surgical training. Residents develop a strong base in comprehensive ophthalmology, and also have extensive experience in each subspecialty area including advanced cataract surgery techniques, retina/vitreous, neuroophthalmology, oculoplastics, cornea/uveitis, ocular oncology, glaucoma, pediatric ophthalmology/strabismus and refractive surgery.
PGY-2: (Year 1) Emphasis is on fundamental clinical diagnostic and therapeutic skills – comprehensive examinations, assistant in ocular surgery, supervised laser procedures, and functional clinical research. Residents spend 11 months at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill, one month at Children's Mercy Hospital, and an introduction to ophthalmic surgery rotation at the Eye Foundation of Kansas City.
PGY-3: (Year 2) Clinical responsibilities increase with exposure to major intraocular and extraocular surgical procedures. Rotations include 4 months at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill, 4 months at Children’s Mercy Hospital, 4 months at St. Luke’s Hospital including specialty rotations including neuro-ophthalmology, ocular oncology, retina, and glaucoma.
PGY-4: (Year 3) Residents receive more intensive clinical exposure and responsibility for major surgical cases, including refractive surgery, with rotations of 8 months at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill and 4 months at Truman Medical Center Lakewood.
The program offers a broad array of daily educational conferences and didactics. Weekly conferences include the Ocular Oncology, Cornea/Uveitis Lectures and Oculoplastics and Eye Trauma Series, Retinal Lecture/Case Presentations, Pathology Lecture/CPC and Glaucoma Lecture/Case Presentations occur multiple times a month. Monthly conferences include Journal Club Refractive Surgery didactics, Cataract and Lens Conference, Ethics and Professionalism didactics and Practice Management Monthly Conferences, Neuroophthalmology Case Presentations, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Grand Rounds (nine months per year) and Pathology Lab (ten months per year). Morbidity/Mortality Conferences occur monthly involving the entire department. In addition, the residents meet monthly for Study Group.
Residents rotate through five Kansas City Missouri area teaching hospitals where they experience a wide variety of surgical cases and clinical opportunities unique to those institutions and associated patient population.
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill is the primary site and provides a broad array of acute and outpatient services to a diverse patient population. TMC is national recognized for excellence in emergency and level I trauma services. In addition to its ophthalmology program at the Eye Foundation of Kansas City, it is also recognized for programs in asthma care/research, diabetes, HIV/AIDS services, obstetrics/high risk obstetrics and women's health. On an annual basis, the 277-bed medical center admits more than 14,125 patients and has over 197,129 outpatient and 61,241 emergency department visits. TMC has 520 physicians on staff at both Hospital Hill and Lakewood.
Truman Medical Center Lakewood is the base hospital for the UMKC School of Medicine's Department of Family and Community Medicine. The Bess Truman Family Practice Clinic, Lakewood Medical Pavilion, the H&R Block Birthing Center and the Lakewood Care Center serve patients in all stages of their lives. Services provided include diabetes, rehabilitation, geriatrics, obstetrics and women's health. TMC Lakewood has 103 patient care beds, 212 longterm care beds. More than 5,067 patients are admitted annually and there are more than 89,215 clinic and 30,836 emergency room visits.
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is a 629 bed tertiary care referral center serving a sixstate region. Saint Luke's has established some of the finest specialized clinical services and support programs in the metropolitan area. They include the Level I Trauma Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Mid America Heart Institute, and the Mid America Brain and Stroke Institute. Saint Luke's admits more than 20,000 patients, provides over 200,000 outpatient visits and has 578 physicians on staff. The hospital received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2003, the distinguished Hospital Award For Patient Survey by the Consumers Choice Award and is ranked as one of the Best Hospitals for Heart Surgery and Gynecology Top 125.
Children's Mercy Hospital provides the highest level of medical care and services, tailored to meet the needs of pediatric patients from birth to age 18. More than 40 pediatric subspecialties and 500 pediatric physicians serve children from western Missouri and eastern Kansas. In fiscal 2010, there were 14,390 admissions, 270,377 outpatient services provided and over 131,500 emergent/urgent care visits to the facility. The 241-bed hospital is the region’s only level I pediatric trauma center, with one of the busiest neonatal/pediatric transport programs in the U.S. In addition to pediatric ophthalmology, it is recognized for cardiac surgery, asthma/allergy/ immunology, minimally invasive surgery, clinical pharmacology, nephrology and neonatology. CMH was ranked as one of the10 best children's hospitals in America in by US News and World Report. Six full time pediatric ophthalmologists staff CMH.
Research Hospital is one of the area’s largest metropolitan facilities 511 beds, with over 500 physicians on staff. It is one of ten area medical centers in the HCA network in Kansas City. Research Medical Center ophthalmology consult service is robust and serves well in training the comprehensive ophthalmologist. It is also well known for the Midwest Stroke Care, Transplant Institute, cancer care and other areas of state-of-the-art medical care. They are a Joint Commission Gold Seal approval facility as well.
In recognition of the quality of its educational programs, in 2008 the ACGME Residency Review Committee awarded the ophthalmology residency program the maximum re-accreditation from 2008 until 2013. Few programs receive this high an accreditation, yet the department has held five-year accreditations for the last 25 years.
Nelson Sabates, MD
Professor & Department Chairman, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology
Billi Wallace, MD
Assistant Professor & Interim Director of Residency Program, Neuro-Ophthalmology Service, Department of Ophthalmology
Michael Cassell, MD
Associate Professor, Retinal Fellowship Program
Director, Associate Director of Residency Program,
Department of Ophthalmology
Nancy Kunjukunju, MD
Assistant Professor & Assistant Director of Residency Program, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology
Paula Grigorian, MD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Children's Mercy Eye Clinic, Department of Ophthalmology
Ryan D. Vincent, MD
Assistant Professor, Glaucoma Service, Department of Ophthalmology
APPLICATION / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Residency Program participates in the Ophthalmology Matching Program (SF Match). Information about registering in the match and enrolling in the Central Application Service (CAS) may be obtained by contacting the academic advisor in the Dean's Office of your medical school. Applicants may request additional program information after July 1 by directing inquiries to:
| Billi Wallace, MD Department of Ophthalmology Eye Foundation of Kansas City 2300 Holmes St. Kansas City, MO 64108 Phone: (816) 404-1780 Please send E-Mail to Saundra Thompson 
Saundra Thompson |
