Residency Description

LOUIS B STOKES VA MEDICAL CENTER

MISSION:

The mission of the Ocular Disease Residency at the Louis B Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is to develop leaders in eye care, enhancing clinical competence, fostering lifelong learning in the discipline, and promoting well integrated health care.

GOALS:

  1. To increase the residents' clinical competence and confidence in the delivery of primary eye care
  2. To increase the residents' ophthalmic knowledge base, and to enhance their ability to apply this clinically
  3. To develop the residents' skills as optometric educators.
  4. To enhance the residents' ability to function in a multi-disciplinary health care setting.

This residency is designed to foster the skills of optometrists to enable them to manage patients with a high incidence of eye and systemic disease. Residents provide patient care with graduated supervision in the setting of a major, academically affiliated medical center, with rotations to the extended care/rehabilitation facility and freestanding outpatient clinic. Clinical care delivered cooperatively with other health professions within the framework of a comprehensive health care facility is the primary focus of this residency and is amply supplemented by rounds, journal club, case conferences, lectures, and rotations. Residents will rotate through specialized clinics [for example, Glaucoma, Contact Lens, Primary Care (Medicine) and Neuro-ophthalmology].

Key features of the residency are multiple residents, major educational and research-oriented facilities, close cooperation with an academic ophthalmology program, multiple clinical settings, and opportunity to manage challenging patients with graduated independence.

The Louis B. Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is part of the VA Healthcare System of Ohio, providing health care to veterans in north central and northeast Ohio at two hospitals, two outpatient clinics, and nine Community-based Outpatient Clinics. Residents rotate among three sites:

The Wade Park Division is located in the University Circle area of Cleveland, a major medical, educational, and cultural hub. Much of the acute and tertiary care, as well as outpatient care, is delivered at this facility. Due to its proximity to the medical school affiliate, Case Western Reserve University, much of the medical education activity, including ophthalmology resident training, takes place at this VA unit.

The Brecksville Division is located in the southern suburb of Brecksville and is a campus style facility consisting of a number of interconnected buildings. The primary services offered at this facility include intermediate medicine care, psychiatric care, outpatient care, and substance abuse and other rehabilitative care. A domiciliary for displaced veterans and a nursing home care unit are located at Brecksville as well.

The Canton Outpatient Clinic is about 90 minutes from Cleveland in Canton, Ohio. The services of this very active outpatient clinic include optometry, radiology, pharmacy, dietetics, psychology, and medicine.

PERIOD:

Twelve months, beginning July 1.

STIPEND*: $30,450

Established by the VA Headquarters in Washington D.C.

HEALTH BENEFITS: Residents are eligible for health and life insurance and accrue 4hrs annual leave and sick leave per pay period.

POSITIONS: 4

SPECIAL APPLICATION PROCEDURE:

Inquiries (for this program only) should be directed to Dr. Stacia S. Yaniglos, Program Supervisor. The program participates in ORMS. When application materials are on file with the program supervisor, the applicant will be contacted regarding an interview. Residents are selected by a faculty committee based on credentials presented and a personal interview.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Stacia S. Yaniglos, O.D.
Optometry Section
Louis B. Stokes VAMC
10701 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
216-791-3800 ext.5405
mailto:stacia.yaniglos@med.va.gov

Web: http://www.cleveland.va.gov