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Each academic year the Department of Ophthalmology and the Institute
extend instruction to medical students in their second, third and
fourth years of UCLA School of Medicine enrollment. Through lectures,
demonstrations, discussions and clinical practice, the students
are afforded numerous training opportunities from which to gain
knowledge and experience in ophthalmology.
Required Rotations
Second-year medical students participate in a four-day program that
encompasses the ophthalmology portion of Fundamentals of Clinical
Medicine. The program consists of lectures, demonstrations, instructions
on ophthalmic history-taking and techniques for examination of the
eye and related structures of the visual system. Students in small
groups are assigned to clinical instructors for practical and personalized
training in examination procedures and the use of ophthalmic instruments.
In this way each student is exposed to major ophthalmic diseases,
significant ophthalmic findings and actual examination experience.
Third-year medical
students complete a one-week rotation in ophthalmology as part
of the clerkship in surgery. Instruction includes lectures,
reading and internet assignments, discussion, demonstrations, patient examinations
and observation of ophthalmic surgery. The basic schedule provides
instruction in the clinical procedures of ophthalmology. Students
observe ophthalmic patient care, attend the ophthalmic pathology laboratory
and visit the Jules Stein Eye Institute operating room.
Elective Rotations
The fourth-year medical student program is made up of several elective
programs including the Advanced Clinical Clerkship in Ophthalmology.
All elective courses provide extensive exposure to the clinical
practice of ophthalmology and the basic scientific knowledge on
which it rests.
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