Choosing your ophthalmology residency
As a med student, deciding which ophthalmology residency to apply to can be overwhelming—which of the 110 or more ophthalmology residency programs in the United States should you even send your application to?
Ultimately, choosing an ophthalmology residency comes down to a variety of factors, which can include:
- 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
Not to mention more esoteric factors like national reputation, or personal factors that are unique to you and your situation, such as family needs.
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
Our ophthalmology residency tool is meant to be a starting point. Answer the questions, then use your results to start your research! See our list of the ophthalmology residency programs in the United States and Puerto Rico below, and best of luck with your application!
Program size
The average ophthalmology residency program size is 3-4 residents per year.
Board certification
The American Board of Ophthalmology awards board certification to ophthalmologists who complete a rigorous set of medical training requirements. While not required for the practice of medicine, board certification is often pursued by MDs who wish to formalize their commitment to lifelong learning, compassionate care, and practice improvement.
National reputation
While reputation is a nebulous factor to measure, many residency programs possess immediate name recognition. All ophthalmology residency programs are required to meet the standards set by ACGME for accreditation, which ensures that residents receive a thorough clinical education.
Research
While accreditation standards mean that every program will offer critical opportunities for residents to develop their skills across the board, some programs will also offer expanded opportunities to pursue research and get involved in clinical trials.
Location
For many students, location might be a significant factor in your decision. The recent update to the ophthalmology residency match process means that residents are less likely to have to expect to move after PGY-1.
Joint or integrated program
As of 2020, the American Academy of Ophthalmology has begun to move towards an integrated four-year structure. This means that ophthalmology residencies will include a PGY-1 year linked with the ophthalmology residency, or an integrated program with PGY-1-4 all run through a department of ophthalmology. This process will be fully implemented by the 2023 match cycle.
What that means is that wherever you match for your ophthalmology residency, that is where you'll be for the next four years. That same hospital is where you'll be doing your intern year, and incorporated into that intern year is three months of ophthalmology. You will spend nine months doing either internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, or general surgery, depending on the program arrangement.
Until 2023, joint programs might still exist, meaning that PGY-1 residents could be doing their internship year at a separate hospital.
Specialties
Many, but not all, residency programs will have full-time faculty representing each sub-specialty in ophthalmology. Residencies that do not will often have part-time faculty or connections with ophthalmologists in other sub-specialties. If you know you are interested in pursuing a specific sub-specialty, or that you will be interested in pursuing fellowship, make sure that the programs to which you apply include faculty representing those specialties.
VA opportunities
Many, but not all, residency programs will offer opportunities with the VA.
Number of faculty
While the average program size might be 3-4 students per year, it's the faculty/resident ratio that determines the amount of focused attention and coaching residents will receive.
Looking for advice on making the most of your chosen residency program? Check out our ultimate guide!
Ophthalmology residency programs
Albany Medical College
Location: Slingerlands, New York
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
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
Location: Madison Heights, Michigan
Year founded: 2016
Total spots: 5
VA: No
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
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:
Location: Miami, Florida
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
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
Location: Houston, Texas
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
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)
Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
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:
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)
Location: Taylor, Michigan
Year founded: 2017
Total spots: 6
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 14
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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
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
Location: Bronx, New York
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
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
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
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
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
Location: San Francisco, California
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
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
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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:
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
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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:
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
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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:
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:
Resident surgery total:
- 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
Location: Detroit, Michigan
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
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
Location: Durham, North Carolina
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:
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
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
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
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
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
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:
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
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
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
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
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
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
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
Location: Detroit, Michigan
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
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
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
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
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
Location: New York
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
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
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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
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
Location: Jamaica, New York
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
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
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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
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
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Year founded: 2018
Total spots: 5
VA: No
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: South Miami, Florida
Year founded: 2018
Total spots: 9
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 30
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: Loma Linda, California
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
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)
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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
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)
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 10
Joint or integrated: Joint
Total spots: 12
VA: Yes
All major specialties? No
Number of full-time faculty: 10
Joint or integrated: Joint
Loyola University Medical Center
Location: Maywood, Illinois
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
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
Location: Tacoma, Washington
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
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
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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
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)
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
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
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
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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
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
Location: Augusta, 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
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
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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
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
Location: Charleston, 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
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
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
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
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
Location: Bronx, New York
Total spots: 15
VA: No
All major specialties?
Number of full-time faculty: 19
Board-certified percentage: 96%
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: East Meadow, New York
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
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
Location: Bethesda, Maryland
Total spots: 10
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Total spots: 10
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Unknown
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
Naval Medical Center (San Diego)
Location: San Diego, California
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
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
Location: Valhalla, New York
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
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)
Location: New York, New York
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
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)
Location: New York, New York
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
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
Location: New York, New York
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
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
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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
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
Location: Portland, Oregon
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:
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
Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania
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
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
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Total spots: 3
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: Unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: Columbia, 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
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
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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
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
Location: Newark, New Jersey
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:
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
Location: Lackland AFB, Texas
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
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
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
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
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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:
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
Location: Far Rockaway, New York
Total spots: 9
VA: No
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: unknown
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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
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
Location: Palo Alto, California
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
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
Location: Stony Brook, New York
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
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
Location: Akron, Ohio
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
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
Location: Brooklyn, New York
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
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
Location: Syracuse, New York
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
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
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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:
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)
Location: Temple, Texas
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
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
Location: Lubbock, Texas
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
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
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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
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
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
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
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
Location: Los Angeles, California
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
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
Location: Buffalo, New York
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
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
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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
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
Location: Tuscon, Arizona
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
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
Location: Tuscon, Arizona
Year founded: 2008
Total spots: 6
VA: Yes
All major specialties? Yes
Number of full-time faculty: 12
Joint or integrated: Joint
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
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
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
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)
Location: Irvine, California
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
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
Location: La Jolla, California
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
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)
Location: San Francisco, California
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
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
Location: Sacramento, California
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
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
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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
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
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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
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
Location: Aurora, 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
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
Location: Gainesville, 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:
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
Location: Chicago, Illinois
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
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
Location: Iowa City, Iowa
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
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
Location: Prairie Village, Kansas
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
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
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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:
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
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
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
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
Location: Baltimore, 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
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
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
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
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
Location: Minneapolis, 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
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
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
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
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
Location: Columbia, Missouri
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:
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
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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)
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
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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:
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
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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
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
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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
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
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
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
Location: San Juan, 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
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
Location: Rochester, New York
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
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
Location: Tampa, Florida
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
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
Location: Los Angeles, California
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
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
Location: Memphis, 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
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
Location: Houston, Texas
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
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
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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
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)
Location: Houston, Texas
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
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
Location: Dallas, Texas
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
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
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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
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
Location: Charlottesville, Utah
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
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
Location: Seattle, 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
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
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
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
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
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
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
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
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
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
Location: Richmond, Virginia
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
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
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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
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
Location: Saint Louis, Missouri
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
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
Location: Morgantown, West Virginia
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
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
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
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:
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
Location: Great Neck, New York
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
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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