Rotations
Residents rotate between St. Vincent's Manhattan and Staten Island where they see patients with a wide variety of ocular pathology.  In their third year, residents have a choice of doing an international rotation for 4 weeks.  For the last years, residents have chosen  to rotate through the Aravind Hospital in Madurai, India.

First-year residents participate in daily clinics, where they learn the principles and techniques of ophthalmic examination, diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases. They also gain hands-on experience with contact lens fitting and perform minor surgical procedures.

Second-year residents have increased responsibility, rotating as Clinic Chief at each institution. They perform extraocular procedures and laser surgery under the supervision of an attending ophthalmologist, and assist with intraocular procedures in the operating room. 

Third year residents are primarily assigned to the operating room, performing major ocular surgery as primary surgeons in all subspecialties.  All resident surgery is supervised by a board-certified attending.
 
First and second-year residents share first-call duties. Third year residents act as second call and an attending ophthalmologist is always available for supervision.  Residents are encouraged to take early ownership in all aspects of their training, from clinical duties to independent learning to constant improvement of clinic and patient care functions.

Didactics
The didactic curriculum for the residents has expanded greatly in the past several years. Weekly professors' rounds discuss cases of educational interest from the previous week. Didactic lectures in ocular pathology, pediatric ophthalmology, neuro-o phthalmology and other topics are given on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. First year residents are provided with the American Academy of Ophthalmology Basic and Clinical Science course for independent study.  Dedicated time blocks in which residents are free of clinical duties occur every other week for board review and preparatory lectures. First year residents attend the month-long Ophthalmology Basic Science course held at Columbia University Medical Center.  All residents attend the Greater New York Ophthalmology Clinical Lecture Series, a six-month series of weekly evening lectures on state-of-the-art developments in ophthalmology as well as the intensive New York Eye and Ear Infirmary OKAP review course.  First- and second-year residents attend a weekly ocular oncology clinic at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Third year residents attend the American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting and the Wills Eye Hospital Ophthalmology Board Review.   All residents are also encouraged to engage in research activities in collaboration with attending ophthalmologists from the department.

Grand Rounds
Grand rounds are held weekly and consist of a resident case presentation followed by a guest speaker. Journal club is held once a month and residents present and discuss important articles  with subspecialty attendings.

Advanced Equipment
The outpatient ophthalmology clinic is fully equipped with slit-lamp biomicroscopes, indirect ophthalmoscopes, A and B-scan, ultrasound, pachymetry, Humphrey and Goldmann visual field machines, OCT, autorefractors, an electrophysiology suite, corneal topographer, digital fluorescein angiography and fundus photography, and a microscope for minor surgical procedures.  A second suite located in main hospital, consists of three large rooms, utilized for inpatient examination and treatment. It is equipped with slit-lamp biomicroscopes, indirect ophthalmoscopes, B-scan ultrasound, YAG and argon lasers, and a microscope for minor procedures.

Attending Ophthalmologists 

Robert A. D'Amico, M.D.  Chairman, Cornea	Ivy Shen, M.D. Pediatric Ophthalmology
Daniel F. Rosberger, M.D., Ph.D Program Director, Retina  and Uveitis	Neena Gadangi, M.D. Pediatric Ophthalmology
J. John Woo, M.D. Assistant Program Director, Retina	Floyd A. Warren, M.D. Neuro-ophthalmology
John J. Khadem, M.D.  Retina	Kevin Stewart, M.D. Glaucoma
Maureen A. Relland, M.D. Oculoplastics	John P. Mitchell, M.D. Neuro-ophthalmology & General Ophthalmology
Joseph A. Eviatar, M.D.  Oculoplastics	Albert J. Zazzali, M.D. General Ophthalmology
Debra M. Kroll, M.D. Oculoplastics	Deborah Ruiz Blenk, M.D. General Ophthalmology