The program is very underrated and I ranked it very highly, above some bigger 'brand name' programs.
Great faculty and charismatic chair who are very relaxed, love to teach and are NONE are malignant which is one of the reasons why I ranked it so highly. Low pain-to-train ratio; Residents are happy and they have, hands down, the BEST call schedule - Standard Q4 1st year, NO CALL 2nd year, backup call 3rd year. About half of the seniors usually end up doing fellowships and they end up at great places - U. of Colorado and U. of Chicago for retina, BPEI for Glaucoma are the ones that pop into mind. It's also nice that you more or less stay in one place the whole time, which is their eye center. You do go up the street 1 or 2 blocks up when you do consults at the main hospital and you do your peds rotation at the SLU Children's hospital which is also up the street. Also, one thing that really interested me was that they have a successful private practice guy come in a few times a year to teach about private practice, which is something most places don't really offer.
The only bad things I really thought of for that program was the numbers were on the lower side (But you get an amazing diversity of different pathologies because I think SLU is considered the County hospital in the region) but I hear of rumors of them going back to the Marion VA - not sure if that's true or not. It's also overshadowed by WashU. All in all, the residents come out of it as great ophthalmologists and I would have been very happy if I matched there.