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Welcome to the EYE FOUNDATION of KANSAS CITY
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The residency program offers diversity of patients/cases, excellent teaching staff, and research opportunities. Residents develop a strong base in general ophthalmology, but also have extensive experience in subspecialty areas including advanced cataract surgery techniques, retina/vitreous, pediatric ophthalmology/strabismus and refractive surgery.
PGY-2: Emphasis is on basic diagnostic and therapeutic skills - examinations, extraocular surgery, supervised laser procedures, and clinical research. Residents spend 11 months at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill, one month at Children's Mercy Hospital.
PGY-3: 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 Childrens Mercy, 4 months at Stlukes including specialty rotations.
PGY-4: Residents receive 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 also offers a broad array of educational conferences and didactics. Weekly conferences include the Basic/Clinical Science Lecture Series, Retinal Lecture/Case Presentations, Pathology Lecture/CPC and Glaucoma Lecture/Case Presentations. Monthly conferences include Journal Club, Neuro-ophthalmology Case Presentations, Pediatric Grand Rounds, Grand Rounds (nine months per year) and Pathology Lab (ten months per year). In addition, the residents meet monthly for a Study Group.
Residents rotate through four of the UMKC School of Medicine’s primary teaching hospitals where they experience a variety of cases and clinical opportunities unique to those institutions.
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill provides a broad array of acute and outpatient services to a diverse patient population. TMC is known for excellence in emergency and level I trauma services. In addition to its ophthalmology programs and the Eye Foundation, 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 237-bed medical center admits more than 11,500 patients and has over 212,000 outpatient and 54,000 emergency department visits. TMC has 329 physicians on staff.
Truman Medical Center Lakewood is the base for the School of Medicine's Department of Community and Family 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 102 patient care beds, 212 long-term care beds and 116 physicians on staff. More than 4,700 patients are admitted annually and there are more than 76,000 clinic and 30,500 emergency room visits.
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is a 629-bed tertiary care referral center serving a six-state 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 466 physicians on staff. The hospital received the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for 2003.
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. 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. 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 2003 by Child Magazine. Four full time pediatric ophthalmologists staff CMH.
Research Hospital description coming soon.
In recognition of the quality of its educational programs, in 2004 the national Residency Review Committee awarded the ophthalmology residency program the maximum five-year re-accreditation. Few programs receive this high an accreditation, yet the department has held five-year accreditations for the last 20 years.
Nelson Sabates, MD
Professor & Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology
Jean Hausheer , MD
Associate Professor & Director of Residency Program
Abraham Poulose, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Scott Olitsky, MD
Professor & Director of Children's Mercy Eye Clinic, Department of Ophthalmology
APPLICATION / ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The Residency Program participates in the Ophthalmology Matching Program (OMP). 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:
| Jean Hausheer , 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 |