Assessing the phacoemulsification learning curve using duration of each step.

Purpose: To assess the phacoemulsification learning curve for ophthalmology residents using duration for each step.

Setting: Single tertiary, training site hospital.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

A Narrative Review of Strategies to Increase Patient Safety Event Reporting by Residents.

Background: Because residents are often on the frontlines of patient care and are likely to witness adverse events firsthand, it is critical they report patient safety events. They may, however, be underreporting.

Objective: We examined the current literature to identify strategies to increase patient safety event reporting by residents.

Using the CLER Pathways to Excellence to Evaluate the Learning Environments at a Multi-Site Institution.

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program visits 1 participating site per sponsoring institution. While valuable, feedback on that site does not necessarily generalize to all learning environments where trainees and faculty provide clinical care, and institutions may be missing significant insight and feedback on other clinical learning sites.

Objective: We explored how the Emory Learning Environment Evaluation process-modeled after CLER-could be used to improve the learning environments at 5 major clinical training sites.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and optic neuritis: case report and literature review.

A history of optic neuritis has long been considered a relative contraindication to hyperbaric oxygen therapy. However, the published medical literature regarding the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in patients with previous optic neuritis is very limited, and patients who might benefit from hyperbaric oxygen therapy may be denied its benefit without adequate consideration of the risk-benefit ratio. We present a case report of a patient with a history of optic neuritis who underwent comprehensive ophthalmologic evaluation before and after 40 treatments with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, with no detectable ophthalmologic deficit.

Evaluation of the virtual mentor cataract training program.

Objective: Evaluate the effectiveness of an interactive cognitive computer simulation for teaching the hydrodissection portion of cataract surgery compared with standard teaching and to assess the attitudes of residents about the teaching tools and their perceived confidence in the knowledge gained after using the tools.

Design: Case-control study.

Participants And Controls: Residents at academic institutions.

Phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia performed by resident surgeons.

Purpose: To evaluate and compare the outcomes in phacoemulsification cases performed by resident surgeons using topical anesthesia or retrobulbar anesthesia.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University, Atlanta, and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia, USA.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of phacoemulsification cases performed by resident surgeons during 1 academic year.