Residency Program
Internship program
The internship program at the University of Utah Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences is a transitional training program in conjunction with the Department of Internal Medicine. Interns rotate four months in ophthalmology and eight months in Internal Medicine rotating through Emergency, Internal Medical wards, Neurology and the VAMC.
Residency Program
Our residency is a three-year program (not including a transitional/preliminary year) and is approved and accredited by the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). We appoint three residents each July 1 and begin accepting applications in early Spring. The center’s ophthalmology residents receive a tremendous amount of hands-on training and will perform approximately 300 cataract extractions and almost 400 other major surgical operations during their time in Utah. These numbers do not include assisting during surgery or performing parts of surgical cases with a faculty member. It is important to note that all surgeries are supervised by an attending faculty member.
