Ophthalmology Residency Program Compendium Table of Contents (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=5868016)

Baylor College of Medicine
6565 Fannin, NC205
Department of Ophthalmology
Houston, Texas 77030

http://www.bcm.edu/gme/

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Baylor - basically the same location as Dallas, but more heat and more traffic; awesome surgical volume and lots of autonomy; great placement for comprehensive or fellowship; don't like the saturday lectures; overall - strong academically and a clinical powerhouse

.Baylor is a great program. Residents get interviewed at top programs for fellowship and have matched well in the past. Definitely a work hard play hard atmosphere. Faculty really value resident education. Saturday lectures have been done away with and moved to Friday. High clinical volume. Cornea and pediatrics powerhouse.

I interviewed at Baylor in 2006.

Pros: Some of the highest surgical numbers I saw on the interview trail. They even had 1st years doing cataract surgery. Residents rotate through a VA, Ben Taub (county), and Cullen, all within 3 miles of each other. See the full spectrum of pathological variety at the county. Residents have lots of autonomy and get great fellowships. I remember hearing something about construction to build a new free-standing eye institute in the area. Houston is dirt cheap. Residents worked very hard, but seemed to enjoy it as they were getting a lot out of it. Faculty and chair seemed nice enough.

Cons: Residents work very hard and looked tired. Houston can get very hot in the summer and you have to drive everywhere through terrible traffic. Almost all the faculty were inbred graduates of the Baylor residency program. PD was really young. They only had 1 retina surgeon. Sort of a stuck-up attitude towards the other Texas programs.

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does anyone in the know have information whether the split between baylor and methodist hospital will affect the ophtho residency program?

does anyone in the know have information whether the split between baylor and methodist hospital will affect the ophtho residency program?

The Baylor Methodist split in ophthalmology occurred 3 years ago. As a resident at Baylor, we stopped staffing/seeing patient's at Methodist a year ago which is actually a great thing because we never learned anything at Methodist. We just staffed the ER which was usually a horrible learning experience since we would get called on dry eyes, thyroid eye disease, chalazion, blepharitis, etc. etc.

We have our own beautiful eye building now which all the faculty have stayed and remained at Baylor. So, the whole methodist thing is all very old news.

From a residency, you'll be hard pressed to find another program taht gives you as much autonomy and as much surgical volume as a resident. We get to do phacos our first year, I did way more pterygiums and lasers that I cared for as a first year. And it just continues to build on that. Our VA and County surgeries are booked out for 3-4 months at least, we have way more surgical cases than we can actually keep up with.

It's a great program if you're willing to work hard and play hard. There are only a handful of programs that I think offers what Baylor offers.