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

Texas Tech University (Lubbock)
3601 4th Street
Dept of Ophthalmology/Visual Sciences
Lubbock, Texas 79430

http://www.ttuhsc.edu/eye

Positives:
- Very good surgical numbers
- Lots of autonomy at the VA hospital
- Nice faculty for the most part
- Cheap housing
- Scheduling of cases is done for you
- Nice new clinics
- Can use wet lab whenever you want
- Most things are paid for and you get a $1500 allowance for lenses, etc
- Vacation increases by the year, 2, then 3, then 4 weeks.

Negatives:
- VA is located in Big Spring which is 110 miles from Lubbock. You spend 4 months there in your PGY 3 and 4 years. However, you apparently only spend Mon-Thurs there, and come back for teaching on Friday...so you essentially have weekends off and only work 4 days a week while there, and you get good cases and autonomy at the VA. They also said that while there you have alot of time to study (since there's nothing else to do). So it's a give and take situation.
- Lubbock
- Lacking in Pedi, somewhat lacking in glaucoma

Undecided:
- You go away for the Stanford course in your first month

Overall: Tech seems like a pretty solid program. I felt that you could go here and get a very good clinical experience. The downside was Lubbock itself. If you are used to a small town in the middle of nowhere, or if you could tolerate it for a little while, it's a good program.