RESIDENCY IN OCULAR DISEASE AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY
BVA/TLC Tulsa, OK

The BVA/TLC Resident splits his/her time between BVA Advanced Eye Care and TLC Laser Eye Center in Tulsa. Typical patients include ocular disease consults from referring optometrists and primary care physicians as well as peri-operative care of surgical patients while at BVA and refractive surgery consults and peri-opertive care of Lasik patients at TLC. The residency program begins on July 1 of each year and is a 12 month program concluding on June 30 of the following year.

Expected weekly hours of duty are 40 hours per week plus some on-call duties. Call is shared between the optometry resident and staff optometrists and ophthalmologists. The resident covers call about every third week at BVA with a back-up physician available for consultation. Attendance of continuing education and research may lengthen the weekly hours of duties.

Compensation is provided to the resident at $30,000 per year.

Please see the NSU Staff Handbook available at the following link http://www.nsuok.edu/humanresources for specific information regarding health insurance provided.

Residents are provided leave benefits. Residents receive 10 days of vacation. They accrue personal leave (which includes sick leave, personal business leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave) at the rate of 12.0 hours per month. BVA and TLC are closed for several holidays (2 days at Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. At the beginning of the year, residents are assigned which holidays they will be on call. If the resident is not scheduled to be on call, the resident is not expected to be at work on these holidays and they are not taken from his or her vacation. Residents also receive professional leave to attend continuing education meetings. The amount of professional leave the resident receives is at the discretion of the Residency Supervisor. The Residency Supervisor encourages attendance at CE courses. Please see the NSU Staff Manual by accessing the following link http://www.nsuok.edu/humanresources/ for a more in-depth discussion of personal leave and holidays.

Professional liability insurance is provided for the resident. The insurance covers the resident at BVA, TLC and NSUCO clinics.

Specific requirements are in place for program completion and awarding the Certificate of Residency. The requirements are as follows:

·   Completed publishable quality paper (research paper, literature review, or case report)

·   All Patient Encounter Logs with encounter types

·   All Residency Activity Logs

·   Completed exit evaluations (Evaluation of Clinical Supervisors, Evaluation of Residency Program Supervisor, Evaluation of NSUCO Residency Director, and Residency Program Evaluation)

·   Passage of NBEO Part I, II and III including passage of the TMOD.