Our mission in residency training at the Kresge Eye Institute is to provide an optimal clinical education to physicians in the science and art of the specialty of ophthalmology. The ophthalmology residency training program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). The program has 7 residents each year. Kresge Eye Institute uses the central application service of the San Francisco Match Program (www.sfmatch.org). The program is designed to provide a broad foundation in all subspecialties of ophthalmology in a 36-month curriculum which combines a structured clinical and basic science course, clinical conferences and independent study. Our attending faculty work closely with the residents throughout their training. The full time faculty includes fellowship trained ophthalmologists in every subspecialty area. The quality of the relationship between faculty and residents is excellent. Although the ophthalmology activities are centered at the Kresge Eye Institute, the residents also see patients at: Veterans Adminstration Hospital Children's Hospital of Michigan Sinai-Grace Hospital Detroit Receiving Hospital Harper University Hospital Curriculum There are seven rotations each year.    1st Year Rotation   2nd  Year Rotation     3rd  Year Rotation     ·         KEI Clinic (2 blocks) ·         Neuro-Ophthalmology ·         Retina/Pathology ·         VA Hospital ·         Sinai-Grace        Hospital/Oculoplastics ·         Pediatrics     ·         KEI Clinic/ Pediatrics ·         Comprehensive          Ophthalmology/        Cataract Surgery ·         Oculoplastics Service ·         Retina Service ·         VA Hospital ·         Sinai-Grace Hospital ·         Consult Service/       Pathology     ·         KEI Clinic Chief ·         Pediatrics ·         VA Hospital ·         Glaucoma Service ·         Cornea/Refractive          Service ·         KEI Clinic ·         Elective       Kresge Eye Institute itself is a four story building that contains twenty-five faculty offices, eighteen large basic science and clinical laboratories, a library, an auditorium, three classrooms, and two large clinics. The Ligon Center and Kresge Ambulatory Surgery Center are both located in the same building. The KEI Ambulatory Surgery Center features modern operating-room suites with the diagnostic and therapeutic equipment essential for the treatment of ophthalmic disease. The department performs the majority of its operations in the ambulatory surgery center. Residents have the unique experience of doing a rotation at the Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital which is a state of the art facility that opened in 1996. Here residents have the opportunity to run their own staffed clinic and see a high volume of patients. During their senior year, the resident assigned to the VA service works in close cooperation with the first and second year resident to ensure smooth running of the clinic and surgical service. The VA rotation provides residents with an autonomous experience and introduces them to a tremendous amount of pathology. The residents do their pediatric ophthalmology rotations at the nationally recognized Children's Hospital of Michigan, which begins at their first year and continues throughout the program. Here, they are exposed to multiple aspects of pediatric ophthalmology such as pediatric cataracts, glaucoma, ptosis, retina disorders, neuro-ophthalmology, refraction, and strabismus. Sinai-Grace Hospital is a 500 bed community based hospital located in northwest Detroit. Kresge residents staff the eye clinic and perform inpatient consults. Second year residents perform all oculoplastic and cataract procedures at this hospital, under the guidance of dedicated ophthalmology faculty of the Sinai-Grace Eye Clinic. All hospitals are within 2 blocks of Kresge, except for Sinai-Grace, which is 15 minutes by car. Residents also have the opportunity to do research work with the various attending faculty. They present their research work annually at a Residents' Day Clinical Conference. A majority also go on to present these high quality research projects at national conferences such as the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). In addition to the traditional education training, residents have special learning opportunities. During the retina and consult service rotation, residents get together in small groups for ocular pathology sessions. The residents gross the pathology specimens from the OR cases that week and review the slides. This helps them to more fully understand the pathology. Additionally, there is a brief clinical pathologic conference done weekly with all the residents and an ocular pathologist. The Marius Juzych Resident Classroom Weekly activities that help prepare residents with the knowledge for clinical practice include Grand Rounds, Basic Science Lectures and Chairman's Rounds, in which the residents choose a topic to present to the chairman for an open discussion among faculty and residents. An ongoing basic science course is integrated into the training program throughout the three years of residency. Journal club is done on a monthly basis, where the exciting and controversial topics in aspects of ophthalmology are discussed over dinner. Additionally, those on the Retina rotation also participate in an in-house Retina Journal Club with the retina faculty. In March and April every year, Kresge Eye Institute hosts the Metropolitan Detroit OKAP review course where residents from all the local ophthalmology programs meet for lectures for the annual in-service exam. An active surgical wet lab exists on the fourth floor of the Eye Institute. There are operating microscopes, a phacoemulsification machine, and many surgical instruments with which residents can practice with. There is also an "Introduction to Ophthalmic Surgery" course which begins in the first year of residency. Throughout the year, a "Business of Medicine" lecture series exists. Various speakers in the financial and legal fields come to Kresge to present various topics of interest to residents. Many of the current residents have taken advantage of the recreation facilities at Wayne State University. The fitness center, which opened recently, (www.rfc.wayne.edu) is available to residents at no charge. For more information about the residency program at Kresge Eye Institute, Please contact Program Coordinator, Deborah Chesney at (313) 577-7614 or send her an email.