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oculoplastic rotation and during other surgical time with the attending.
• The resident should become familiar with the various methods and
indications of both upper and lower eyelid reconstruction techniques,
including the use of grafts, flaps, and lid sharing techniques. The resident
will also become familiar with basic plastic surgery techniques, such as Z-
plasties, and suturing techniques such as horizontal and vertical mattress
sutures and their indications.
ASSESSMENT—The resident will perform a variety of reconstructive
procedures during the rotation, and will be the first surgeon on a minimum of
two of these. The attending will monitor the resident’s skill level and insure
that the knowledge of surgical concepts and the level of surgical skill are
satisfactory.
G. Ocular Pathology
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Overview: Training in ophthalmic pathology is aimed at providing an in depth
understanding of the pathological basis of ophthalmic disease. Our goals are
fold: 1) Correlate histology and pathophysiology to clinical presentation and
treatment; 2) Understand practical and technical issues regarding the handling
and processing of surgical pathology specimens; 2) Recognize the
histopathological features of lesions and tumors encountered in clinical practice.
These goals are achieved by a combination of didactic lectures, real-time
involvement in ongoing cases, conference presentations, and research.
Resident conferences in ophthalmic pathology
The resident core pathology conferences are held in the Pathology Service
conference room at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The multiheaded
microscope and the attached video monitor allows the histological microscopic
slides to be viewed by all the participants simultaneously. Computer powerpoint
presentations viewed in the same room supplement the direct viewing of the
histological slides with teaching material.
The conferences consist of working meetings (“pathology signout”), and core
lecture presentations. These two types of conferences are sometimes done back to
back. During working conferences, the histological slides of recent surgical
pathology cases are viewed under the multiheaded microscope. This provides an
opportunity for residents to view the pathological slides on patients that they have
seen clinically. The histological findings are reviewed in detail together with
discussion of special stains, immunohistological studies, and the clinical findings.
The second type of conference is a series of thematic presentations. These
presentations follow the resident text Ophthalmic Pathology and Intraocular
Tumors (American Academy of Ophthalmology, Basic and Clinical Science
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