Residency in Refractive Surgery and Ocular Disease - BVA/TLC Tulsa

The BVA/TLC Resident splits his/her time between BVA Advanced Eye Care and TLC Laser Eye Center in Tulsa. Typical patients include ocular disease consults from referring optometrists and primary care physicians as well as peri-operative care of surgical patients while at BVA and refractive surgery consults and peri-opertive care of Lasik patients at TLC. The residency program begins on July 1 of each year and is a 12 month program concluding on June 30 of the following year.

Expected weekly hours of duty are 40 hours per week plus some on-call duties. Call is shared between the optometry resident and staff optometrists and ophthalmologists. The resident covers call about every third week at BVA with a back-up physician available for consultation. Attendance of continuing education and research may lengthen the weekly hours of duties.

Compensation is provided to the resident at $30,000 per year.

Please see the NSU Staff Handbook for specific information regarding health insurance provided.

Residents are provided leave benefits. Residents receive 10 days of vacation. They accrue personal leave (which includes sick leave, personal business leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave) at the rate of 12.0 hours per month. BVA and TLC are closed for several holidays; 2 days at Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. At the beginning of the year, residents are assigned which holidays they will be on call. If the resident is not scheduled to be on call, the resident is not expected to be at work on these holidays and they are not taken from his or her vacation. Residents also receive professional leave to attend continuing education meetings. The amount of professional leave the resident receives is at the discretion of the Residency Supervisor. The Residency Supervisor encourages attendance at CE courses. Please see the NSU Staff Handbook for a more in-depth discussion of personal leave and holidays.

Professional liability insurance is provided for the resident. The insurance covers the resident while providing care as a resident at BVA, TLC and NSU-OCO clinics.

Specific requirements are in place for program completion and awarding of the Certificate of Advanced Clinical Competence. The requirements are as follows:

  • Completed publishable quality paper (research paper, literature review, or case report)
  • Submission of all residency evaluation forms including:
    • Patient Encounter Logs with encounter types
    • Residency Activity Logs
    • Exit evaluations (Evaluation of Clinical Supervisors, Evaluation of Residency Program Supervisor, Evaluation of NSUOCO Residency Director and, Residency Program Evaluation)
  • Successful completion of NBEO Part I, II and III including TMOD.

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E-mail the BVA Tulsa Residency Supervisor,  J. Ellen O.D.

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Ocular Disease Residencies

Mission, Goals, Objectives

Mission

The mission of the Residency in Ocular Disease is to provide advanced clinical training for post-graduate optometrists with emphasis in ocular disease, allowing residents upon completion of the program to pursue professional opportunities which require a high level of clinical expertise.

Goal A

Provide appropriately supervised clinical educational experiences with emphasis in ocular disease.
Objectives:

  • Provide the resident a large number of patient encounters.
  • Provide the resident exposure to a high diversity of clinical conditions within ocular disease.
  • Encourage appropriate referral and co-management of patients with other health care providers.
  • Allow the resident to participate in the clinical supervision of optometry students.

Goal B

Stimulate scholarly development in the resident.
Objectives:

  • Encourage lecture and workshop presentations in the form of continuing education, grand rounds, optometry classroom, etc.
  • Stimulate life-long learning by keeping the resident active in critically reviewing ophthalmic literature.
  • Allow the resident to attend continuing education courses.
  • Require completion of a research paper, literature review, or case report of publishable quality by the end of the residency program.

Goal C

Stimulate a commitment to service in the resident.
Objectives:

  • Enhance the resident's active involvement in the optometric community by encouraging membership and participation in optometric organizations.