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• The resident should be familiar with the indications for evisceration,
enucleation, and exenteration. The resident should understand the various
modes of socket reconstruction as well as their indications, including
mucous membrane grafting.
ASSESSMENT—Te resident will be monitored on the evaluation of patients
with post-traumatic or phthisical eyes and the management of anophthalmic
patients will be reviewed with the resident in clinic.
• The resident should be familiar with the common types of orbital tumors
and the differential diagnoses of presentations or orbital tumors in various
age populations. The resident should also understand the various surgical
approaches to the orbit and recognize their indications.
ASSESSMENT—Second year residents will be quizzed periodically in the clinic
on the management of patients with orbital tumors.
PROCEDURAL:
• The second year resident will become familiar with basic assisting
techniques in oculoplastics and learn surgical approaches to more
complicated in-office procedures (ptosis repair, ectropion repair, etc.)
ASSESSMENT—The second year resident will assist the attending in the minor
procedure room in the after-clinic cases, and his/her performance reviewed
and his/her abilities monitored.
Third Year Residents
COGNITIVE:
• The third-year resident, in addition to the above, should understand the
surgical management of all oculoplastic and orbital processes, as well as
understand the inpatient management of oculoplastic and orbital disease.
ASSESSMENT—The resident will discuss the management of all surgical cases
with the attending preoperatively and will also demonstrate that knowledge
intraoperatively.
PROCEDURAL:
• The resident will become proficient in the basic oculoplastic procedures
required of a comprehensive ophthalmologist: simple ptosis repair,
enucleation, ectropion and entropion repair, eyelid wedge resection; lateral
canthoplasty; lid and canalicular laceration repair.
ASSESSMENT—The resident will demonstrate proficiency by performing at
least two of each of these procedures as primary surgeon during the
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