Top Midwest Programs

[browneye]

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What are the top 5 programs in the Midwest? If you don't know where the midwest is, we're talking Central Standard Time.

Ophtho MudPhud, I'm sure Iowa is #1 on your list!

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by browneye
What are the top 5 programs in the Midwest? If you don't know where the midwest is, we're talking Central Standard Time.

Ophtho MudPhud, I'm sure Iowa is #1 on your list!

Iowa, Wash U, Madison-Wisconsin, Michigan, Cleveland Eye

Only my opinion. 🙂

 

[chef]

does iowa have a med school? how big is it?
also how big is the hospital?

 

[ophth_not_opth]

While I am not part of the Iowa program nor attend Iowa's ned school, I would say that when I interviewed there last year, their facilities are quite impressive. It seemed like the med center was as big the adjacent downtown. U of Iowa has the largest geographical catchement of any med center in the nation, and despite the fact that the surrounding geography is not as dense as NYC, there is an impressive range of pathology that shows up there. This is in addition to the fact that the relative paucity of nearby programs allow Iowa to concentrate talented faculty(unlike, say, NYC or Chicago). Hence, the high quality of their programs often surprises some more coastal minded folk(for example.....me).

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by chef
does iowa have a med school? how big is it?
also how big is the hospital?

There's about 120 med students in the SOM. The hospital has about 1000 beds and serves ~ 500,000 patients per year.

UIHC serves all of Iowa and many surrounding states.

We're very busy here.

As for surgeries, residents perform 120-160+ cataracts as class 1 and assist in at least 100+ Class 3. We also do 100+ of plastics and trauma surgeries. Muscles procedures are average. You'll get 50-100+ retina lasers. Glaucoma procedures are about average. We also perform numerous corneal transplants, cornea procedures, and LASIK/LASEK/PRK (Iowa started a program that allows residents to offer FREE refractive surgery for hospital house staff and their family members).

Although Iowa City/Coralville is less than 100,000 population, we see a wide variety of diseases because patients will travel 6-8 hours to be seen at the University of Iowa.

One excellent example is Dr. Ed Stone's retina clinic on Tuesday. He'll see 20-30 patients with the most rare and obscure genetic diseases: enhanced S-cone disease, Stargardt, X-link/AD/AR retinitis pigmentosa, albinism, Bardet-Beidel Syndrome, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, Best disease, Usher's Syndrome, etc... Often we would see dozens of these patients while the average ophthalmologist/optometrist would see one or two in their career.

In short, we're not that small. 🙂 I was surprised with all the resources here at the UIHC when I interviewed, and I trained on the East Coast.

 

[DrDre']

Not a big deal at all for the future residents but...

COM has 140+ in each year, + 25 PAs. They used to have classes of 175 but cut it down the last few years.

Stone lectures the M1s and M2s in genetics and ophth frequently

Sorry to correct you, Dr. Doan,

You always have great info and are so collegial about it. Nary an ego to be found.

 

[Andrew_Doan]

Originally posted by DrDre'
Not a big deal at all for the future residents but...

COM has 140+ in each year, + 25 PAs. They used to have classes of 175 but cut it down the last few years.

Stone lectures the M1s and M2s in genetics and ophth frequently

Sorry to correct you, Dr. Doan,

You always have great info and are so collegial about it. Nary an ego to be found.

Thanks for the clarification on the size of the COM class. I obtained the 120+ number from Iowa's match list.