Choosing your ophthalmology residency
- Location
- Faculty-resident ratio
- Funding
- Type of program (join versus integrated)
- Number of procedures performed by residents
- Whether or not all major specialties are represented among the faculty
- VA affiliation
Top 5 ophthalmology residencies
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute—University of Miami
- Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
- Wilmer Eye Institute Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Stein and Doheny Eye Institutes, UCLA Medical Center
(According to US News & World Report and EyeRounds.org)
Using the tool
Program size
Board certification
National reputation
Research
Location
Joint or integrated program
Specialties
VA opportunities
Number of faculty
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Ophthalmology residency programs
Albany Medical College
Year founded: 1964
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 18
Board-certified percentage: 84%
Alumni publication percentile: 58%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 58%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital
Year founded: 2016
Total spots: 5
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Bascom Palmer Eye Institute/University of Miami/Jackson Health System:
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 21
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 55
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 94%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Baylor College of Medicine/Cullen Eye Institute
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 32
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 87%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Beaumont Health (Royal Oak)
Year founded: 1979
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Alumni publication percentile: 50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- 300-350 cataract surgeries with approximately 150 as primary surgeon
- 60-80 corneal surgeries
- 250-300 ophthalmic plastic surgical procedures
- 40-60 pediatric strabismus procedures
- 40-50 retinal procedures
- 25-40 glaucoma procedures
- 50-60 anterior segment laser procedures
- 60-70 retinal laser procedures
- 200-250 intravitreal injections
- 15-25 traumatic open globe surgical repairs
Beaumont Health (Taylor)
Year founded: 2017
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Joint or integrated: Joint
Boston University Medical Center
Year founded: 1968
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 36
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: 59%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 59%
Joint or integrated: Joint
BronxCare Health System
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Board-certified percentage: 84%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Brown University
Total spots: 8
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 50
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: 65%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 90%
Joint or integrated: Joint
California Pacific Medical Center
Year founded: 1975
Total spots: 11
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 96%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 18
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 96%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Residents are divided into three teams: Red, Blue, and White
- Red team performs surgeries 3x per week, with 100-200 surgical procedures in a two-month period
- Blue team performs surgeries 2x per week, with 80-100 surgical procedures in a two-month period
- White team performs surgeries 1-3x per week, with 50-60 surgical procedures in a two-month period
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Year founded: 1949
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 94%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 92%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- PGY-3: 30-50 primary cataract procedures
- PGY-4: 200-250 primary cataract surgeries
- 250-300 primary phacoemulsification
- Total surgical volume: 80th percentile nationally
Cook County Health and Hospitals System
Year founded: 1949
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty:
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 94%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 92%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Cataract - 307
- YAG capsulotomy - 17
- Laser trabeculoplasty - 10
- Laser iridotomy - 57
- Panretinal laser photocoagulation - 543
- Keratoplasty - 11
- Pterygium/conj/corneal - 13
- Keratorefractive surgery - 6
- Strabismus - 15
- Glaucoma filter/shunt - 39
- Retinal Vitreous - 106
- Intravitreal injection - 375
- Oculoplastic and orbit - 60
- Eyelid laceration - 8
- Chalazia excision - 14
- Ptosis/blepharoplasty - 10
- Globe trauma - 14
Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University
Year founded: 1951
Total spots: 21
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 25
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: 56%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 69%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Duke University Hospital
Year founded: 1953
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 91
Board-certified percentage: 94%
Alumni publication percentile: 89%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 87%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- 250 cataract extractions
- Assist in over 600 surgical cases
- Cataract
- Glaucoma
- Cornea
- Strabismus
- Vitreoretinal
- Oculoplastics procedures.
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Year founded: 1976
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 2
Board-certified percentage: 83%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Emory University School of Medicine
Year founded: 1962
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 45
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 64%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Averages from graduating class of 2017
• Cataract: 216 (highest 257)
• Strabismus: 22 (highest 41)
• Glaucoma: 10 (highest 16)
• Plastics: 68 (highest 149)
• Major traumas: 10 (highest 16)
• Lasers: 80 (YAG, LI, SLT, PRP, Focal)
Geisinger Health System
Year founded: 1945
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
George Washington University
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Henry Ford Hospital/Wayne State University
Total spots: 15
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 75%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Howard University
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 75%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and New York Eye and Ear
Year founded: 1951
Total spots: 30
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 250
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 66%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Indiana University School of Medicine
Year founded: 1956
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 23
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Alumni publication percentile: 75%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 75%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center/New York Medical College
Year founded: 1971
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 83%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Johns Hopkins University
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 15
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: 97%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 97%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Kettering Health Network
Year founded: 2018
Total spots: 5
VA: No
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Larkin Community Hospital
Year founded: 2018
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Joint or integrated: Joint
Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium
Total spots: 11
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 87
Board-certified percentage: 81%
Alumni publication percentile: 70%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Louisiana State University (New Orleans)
Year founded: 1997
Total spots: 22
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 60
Board-certified percentage: 87%
Alumni publication percentile: 81%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Louisiana State University (Shreveport)
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 10
Joint or integrated: Joint
Loyola University Medical Center
Year founded: 1972
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 69%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Madigan Army Medical Center
Year founded: 1991
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 84%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School
Year founded: 1871
Total spots: 24
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 110
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: 98%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 92%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester)
Year founded: 1957
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: 87%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 57%
Joint or integrated: Joint
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
Year founded: 1963
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: 66%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 61%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Medical College of Georgia
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50
Joint or integrated: Joint
Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals
Year founded: 1965
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 40
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Medical University of South Carolina
Year founded: 1957
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 59%
Joint or integrated: Joint
MedStar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: 59%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 61
Joint or integrated: Joint
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Total spots: 15
VA: No
All major specialties?
Number of full-time faculty: 19
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Nassau University Medical Center
Year founded: 1967
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 19
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Joint or integrated: Joint
National Capital Consortium
Total spots: 10
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Naval Medical Center (San Diego)
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 100
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 89%
Joint or integrated: Joint
New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Board-certified percentage: 83%
Alumni publication percentile: 51%
Joint or integrated: Joint
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)
Year founded: 1990
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 44
Board-certified percentage: 91
Alumni publication percentile: 95%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 92%
Joint or integrated: Joint
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)
Year founded: 1983
Total spots: 10
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: 73%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 79%
Joint or integrated: Joint
New York University School of Medicine
Total spots: 20
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 40
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: 97%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Ohio State University Hospital
Total spots: 17
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 35
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Oregon Health & Science University
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 85
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 83%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 66%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- 200 cataract surgeries
Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 24
Board-certified percentage: 79%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 60%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Total spots: 3
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Prisma Health-Midlands/University of South Carolina
Year founded: 1979
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 7
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Rush University Medical Center
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 26
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50
Joint or integrated: Joint
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 64%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- >200 major procedures as primary surgeon by the end of their third year
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium
Total spots: 16
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: unknown
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 55%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/Wills Eye Hospital
Year founded: 1949
Total spots: 24
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 250
Board-certified percentage: 99%
Alumni publication percentile: 95%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 85%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Year founded: 2005
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- >120 cataract surgeries
St John's Episcopal Hospital-South Shore
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
St Louis University School of Medicine
Year founded: 1955
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University
Year founded: 1962
Total spots: 11
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 57
Board-certified percentage: 85%
Alumni publication percentile: 80%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital
Year founded: 2007
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 16
Board-certified percentage: 82%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Summa Health System/NEOMED
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 39
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Year founded: 1953
Total spots: 21
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 83%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Year founded: 1953
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 43
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Temple University Hospital
Year founded: 1950
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 8
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Cataracts - 180.3
- Cornea - 8.7
- Glaucoma - 13.3
- Globe rupture - 5.3
- Strabismus - 13.7
- Oculoplastics and orbit - 34.3
- Retina and vitreous - 32.3
- Lasers - 60.4
- Intravitreal injections - 96
Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple)
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 13
Board-certified percentage: 94%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile; 79%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Tufts Medical Center
Total spots: 13
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 89%
Alumni publication percentile: 76%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 75%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Tulane University
Year founded: 1969
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 23
Board-certified percentage: 79%
Alumni publication percentile: 56%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 75%
Joint or integrated: Joint
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center
Total spots: 24
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 66
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Alumni publication percentile: 92%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 78%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University at Buffalo
Year founded: 1985
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 83%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 87%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Alabama Medical Center
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 51
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni publication percentile: 61%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 60%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
Year founded: 2008
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Board-certified percentage: 84%
Alumni publication percentile: 59%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 63%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson South Campus
Year founded: 2008
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 16
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 76%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 69%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of California (Irvine)
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 31
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: 73%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 90%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of California (San Diego) Medical Center
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 42
Board-certified percentage: 87%
Alumni publication percentile: 66%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 80%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of California (San Francisco)
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 35
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 88%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 97%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of California Davis Health
Year founded: 1969
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 91%
Alumni publication percentile: 67%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 65%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Chicago
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 11
Board-certified percentage: 88%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 77%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 82%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Colorado
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 68
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: 79%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Florida
Year founded: 1986
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Board-certified percentage: 92%
Alumni publication percentile: 61%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- 1st year: 1-10 primary cataracts
- 2nd year: 75-90 primary cataracts
- 3rd year: 250-300+ primary cataracts (including refractive cataract surgery with LensX® laser and ORA®)
- 3rd year: 20-30+ LASIK and 50+ PRK with the Star S4 IR® (As well as refractive cataract surgery with LensX® laser and ORA®)
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 55
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 85%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 83%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Year founded: 1953
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 28
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 92%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 77%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Total spots: 8
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 17
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Year founded: 1968
Total spots: 10
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 28
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Cataract: 226.5
- Laser: 90.7
- Corneal surgery: 6.8
- Strabismus: 36.6
- Glaucoma: 17.7
- Retina vitreous: 4.3
- Other retinal: 140.0
- Oculoplastics and orbit: 83.8
- Globe trauma: 15.1
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 28
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: 62%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 52%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Maryland
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty:
Board-certified percentage: 85%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Michigan Health System
Total spots: 20
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 90
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 87%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Minnesota
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 34
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: 57%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Year founded: 1958
Total spots: 11
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 16
Board-certified percentage: 86%
Alumni publication percentile: 50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 53%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Missouri-Columbia
Total spots: 10
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 29
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 72%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- >240 primary cataract surgeries on average
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 29
Board-certified percentage: 93%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 72%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
Average class 1 (at Mason Eye over 3 years)
- Cataracts: 180
- Strabismus: 53
- Glaucoma filtering: 20
- Glaucoma laser - trabeculoplasty: 7
- Glaucoma laser - iridotomy: 13
- YAG laser - capsulotomy
- Retina/vitreous: 25
- Retina laser: PRP
- Retina - intravitreal injections: 125
- Oculoplastics/orbit: 103
- Oculoplastic/orbit: eyelid laceration
- Oculoplastic/orbit: chalazion: 14
- Oculoplastic/orbit - ptosis/blepharoplasty: 27
- Globe trauma: 6
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 7
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 16
Board-certified percentage: 85%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 99%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- Most residents graduate with over 200 primary cataract surgeries
- >280 surgical cases where the senior resident is the primary surgeon
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Year founded: 1957
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 20
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Total spots: 13
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 38
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: 74%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Pennsylvania Health System/Scheie Eye Institute
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 44
Board-certified percentage: 94%
Alumni publication percentile: 95%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 97%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Puerto Rico
Year founded: 1963
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 26
Board-certified percentage: 76
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Rochester
Year founded: 1955
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 43%
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: 74%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of South Florida Morsani
Year founded: 1973
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 16
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 52%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center
Year founded: 1955
Total spots: 20
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 33
Board-certified percentage: 91%
Alumni publication percentile: 84%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Tennessee
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty:
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Year founded: 1957
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 20
Board-certified percentage: 94%
Alumni publication percentile: 83%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Year founded: 1967
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Board-certified percentage: 89%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals/Methodist Hospital (Houston)
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Board-certified percentage: 87%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Year founded: 1952
Total spots: 27
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 57%
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: 95%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 61%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Utah Health
Year founded: 1971
Total spots: 11
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 65
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 53%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 76%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Virginia Medical Center
Year founded: 1957
Total spots: 10
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: unknown
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Washington
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 48
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: 69%
Joint or integrated: Joint
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics
Year founded: 1956
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 49
Board-certified percentage: 97%
Alumni publication percentile: 70%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 84%
Joint or integrated: Joint
UPMC Medical Education
Year founded: 1955
Total spots: 18
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 63
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 54%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 67%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Year founded: 1959
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 60
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Alumni publication percentile: 66%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 74%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
Year founded: 1954
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 15
Board-certified percentage: 82%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 13
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium
Year founded:
Total spots: 13
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 28
Board-certified percentage: 98%
Alumni publication percentile: 91%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 95%
Joint or integrated: Joint
West Virginia University
Year founded: 1969
Total spots: 11
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 26
Board-certified percentage: 100%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Yale-New Haven Medical Center
Year founded: 1956
Total spots: 15
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 22
Board-certified percentage: 90%
Alumni publication percentile: 54%
Alumni clinical trial percentage: 75%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Average surgical statistics:
- First year:
- 5 strabismus surgeries
- 10 anterior segment/glaucoma laser procedures
- 20 ophthalmic plastic surgeries (blepharoplasty, ptosis repair, etc.)
- 50 intravitreal injections
- Second year:
- 2-5 phacoemulsification cataract surgeries
- 3-5 ophthalmic plastic surgeries per week
- >20 retinal laser procedures
- ~40 anterior segment/glaucoma laser procedures
- Third year: 5 rotations
- 20 cases (cataract, pterygium, trabeculectomy)
- Wide range of tertiary care uveitis cases
- 120-150 phacoemulsifications
- 1-2 penetrating and lamellar keratoplasties
- 1 rotation: pediatric ophthalmology/strabismus
- 1 month international rotation
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Year founded: 1952
Total spots: 12
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty:
Board-certified percentage: 95%
Alumni publication percentile: <50%
Alumni clinical trial percentile: 52%
Joint or integrated: Joint
Sources
Board certification, alumni publication percentile, and alumni clinical trial percentile data are from Doximity where available; all other data are sourced from program websites and ACGME where available.
Last updated October 1, 2020.
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