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We strive to train and educate the highest quality trainee in an effort to enrich the ophthalmic care to our communities and to ignite a passion to care for the needs around the world.
We offer an ophthalmic training program with a long history of excellence focused on comprehensive ophthalmic care. Since 1980, our collective resident average has always scored above the national average on the nationally standardized OKAP examination. Additionally, no graduate has failed to obtain board certification through the American Board of Ophthalmology. Our residents are competent and capable to enter busy ophthalmic practices as well as match into an ophthalmic subspecialty if they desire further subspecialization.
We strive to offer an environment which encourages compassionate care in an atmosphere of community and scholarly activity. Our residents tend to be a tight knit community with a dynamic relationship with the core faculty.
We accept three ophthalmology residents per year.
We have an integrated intern year that is under the coordination of the Internal Medicine Residency. Our interns join the Internal Medicine Residency as preliminary year. They will manage and learn essential medical conditions through time spent in hospitalized patients. They will also be given a minimum of 3 months of ophthalmic experience in the form of clinic and elective rotations.
A successful completion of the PGY-1 year is required to continue into the ophthalmology residency.
There is a large and steep learning curve during the first full year of ophthalmology residency. To help ensure our trainees accomplish their excellent training, we provide them with the necessary tools. Their first experience during this year is a refraction course to properly learn the techniques required to care for patients.
All residents are provided with the full up-to-date set of the AAO Basic Clinical Science Course books as well as faculty didactics. Additionally, each PGY-2 resident will start on a comprehensive month, rotating in all the major subspecialty areas as well as having their own weekly resident clinics.
During the PGY-2, residents spend nine months at Baylor Scott & White rotating through every subspecialty and three months at Olin E. Teague Veterans’ Center (VA) in their own comprehensive ophthalmology clinic. We expect residents begin operating and performing clinical and laser procedures during this year of training.
During the final two years of training, residents will spend progressively more time at the VA (4 months and 8 months, respectively) assuming more responsibility and performing more surgeries and procedures. All surgeries are supervised and assisted by actively practicing senior faculty. Clinics and procedure locations are all located alongside the senior faculty clinics and procedure areas.
Upper level residents are responsible for teaching weekly BCSC Resident Conferences as well as participating in medical student education for those who rotate through the department.
Call is front loaded during training and the schedule is determined by the residents. Call is taken at home on a pager system. Call is taken for Baylor Scott & White Memorial (adults), Baylor Scott & White McLane’s Children’s Hospital (children) and Olin E. Teague Veteran’s Center (VA) concurrently with each call period. Call is divided throughout the year into 2-3 day/night intervals.
Our program participates in the SF Match - Ophthalmology Matching Program, sponsored by the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology.
Application deadline is September 1.
Before beginning residency training, applicants must:
Learn more about Baylor Scott & White's housestaff appointment eligibility, including guidelines for international medical graduates.
Our faculty are fellowship trained, board certified physicians and our talented residents bring enthusiasm and fresh perspectives to patient care. Together, they create a supportive community committed to excellence in medical education and compassionate care in the major ophthalmic subspecialties, including:
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Temple is a 640-bed teaching and research hospital with a Level I trauma center.
In addition to competitive stipends, we offer our residents a full menu of employee benefits. We help offset the cost of many of these benefits; others are options you can choose to pay for yourself.
This time in your professional career can be extremely challenging. As a Baylor Scott & White graduate medical trainee, there are a variety of resources available to you, ensuring you get the most out of your educational experience.
Temple uniquely offers a combination of access to big-city conveniences while maintaining a small-town atmosphere.
Holly Ascherl
Program Administrator
Phone: 254.724.4131
Fax: 254.724.9050
Email: Holly.Ascherl@BSWHealth.org
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple
2401 S. 31st St.
Temple, TX 76508
