Goals & Responsibilities

Fellow Responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities:
Must be performed with diligence, professionalism and thoroughness
Respect must be shown to all patients

ON-CALL:
Will always be HOME call
Will be one week at a time, once every 2-1/2 weeks
A beeper and cellular phone will be provided

Vacations (refer to GME House Officer's Agreement and Quick Reference Benefits Sheet)
2 full weeks plus statutory holidays
5 meeting days
Time will be allowed for job interviews towards the end of the fellowship.
All vacations or meeting days must be approved by fellowship director

Resident Involvement

Fellows will be expected to aid in the education of the residents at Rush University. Resident teaching sessions should be arranged by the retina fellow to complement the faculty teaching. Fellows are expected to maintain an open and approachable attitude with the residents in their mentoring role.

Goals of the Fellowship

Proper training in the management of retinal and vitreous diseases mandates the necessity for hands-on surgical experience. The fellow is expected to actively participate in the surgical management of patients and not merely be an observer. It is expected that by the end of the fellowship, fellows will have the skills and confidence to perform any vitreoretinal procedure currently performed.

During each rotation of the fellowship, fellows will spend an average of 1-1/2 days a week in the O.R. This equates to an exposure of about 4-8 cases per week. The cases performed by the faculty run the full gamut of vitreoretinal surgery from fresh primary detachments to complex tertiary referrals.

Fellows will slowly progress from observing cases at the beginning of the fellowship to performing the full case by the end of the fellowship. The pace of progress will vary depending on an individual fellow's abilities and the staff's confidence in that fellow. All surgeries will be performed under the direct supervision of a faculty member.

Fellows will be expected to become proficient in these medical retina diagnoses and therapies.