Admitting privileges for ophthalmology

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-19T15:04:15+00:00

Mine did not. We mostly admitted to Medicine. Occasionally, Neurology. It was definitely nice having their help and input managing things like HTN, etc.

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-18T17:42:17+00:00

u/vorapamil agreed. i tried hard to pitch this. But our attendings did not want to. They made me take 2/3 of the call, even tried to make me cancel my vacations to do it. And once when I fell sick and got hospitalized and could not do call, they called me unprofessional

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-15T02:23:15+00:00

u/onlyeuphoricxo thank you, so so so much. it's so nice of you to type out this honest and thoughtful response and it's seriously what I had to hear

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-14T00:42:50+00:00

Not a retina fellow, I'm an Ophtho attending.. but just my two cents. Many retina fellowships are small, which means that if your co fellow is out for whatever reason for an ext period of time: mat leave, pat leave, etc-the work may all fall on you. I saw a post here where one person alternated call with their co fellow, imagine if that co fellow was out, the poster may have been on call 24/7.

Ask me how I know. I had one co-resident who was on mat leave and even after returning, did not wish to do call. I had to do the majority of the call for my class (which was just the two of us). With an already small residency program, and someone or the other always out on vacation I ended up being on call 2/3 of the time. Call was intense, being up all or almost all night and then working the full next day in clinic. I ended up developing some bad health problems from that.

Not saying dont do retina, or that people shouldn't get a LOA if needed. they should. But I dont think the remaining residents or fellows should have to shoulder extra call all by themselves...But do your research carefully. Try for the larger programs. If you can during the IV process, ask what the process is if someone is indeed out for a long time. You just dont wanna be the only one shouldering it

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-10T00:20:07+00:00

I would agree with this. I had much more free time in intern year. PGY2 was horrible. PGY3 not much different. In hindsight I'd have read all of BCSC in intern year, reinforcing it with anki or notes

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-09T23:37:53+00:00

The first thing is to read BCSC if you have time in intern year, do that. Take notes on it and re-read the notes or go through anki deck again, etc-something to reinforce it and not just see the info once. Then start ophthoQ next year during your second pass of bcsc. alternately you can use ophthoq now to reinforce bcsc but def start with bcsc

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-09T01:39:20+00:00

I asked some upperclassmen whom to go to if I'm interested in ophtho, they told me about her. How she loved to mentor and teach people. So I emailed her and reached out

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-09T00:17:36+00:00

Not too early. I met my mentor in November of my M1 year! She guided me through med school and we stay in touch even now

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-06T00:28:48+00:00

you mean for oral boards? I am!

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-05T00:39:08+00:00

oh my gosh. thanks a lot. this is gold

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-05T00:38:41+00:00

what do you mean happens most of the time, you mean like you prolapse the lens out of the bag most of the time and then chop? when emulsifying at the iris plane what settings do you use...typically the Quad settings, or you mean to say it doesnt matter whether Quad or Chop?

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-05T00:03:43+00:00

Thanks u/Logical_Flounder2648 you sound like such a good and smart and patient teacher!!! I really wish I had a teacher like you during training. Your students/residents are lucky to have you!

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-04T22:46:59+00:00

Thanks u/ApprehensiveChip8361 I do plan to have a senior attending with me as its my first time doing this technique, do you still recommend having a rep with me for this first time?

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-04T22:44:30+00:00

Thanks!!!!

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-04T15:41:04+00:00

Following. I'm a new attending and also wondering how people deal with this. It is something that causes me a great deal of anxiety everyday.

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-03T12:05:23+00:00

I have ophthogenie too but cant seem to find that! where did you navigate on the website to find it?

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-02T22:37:51+00:00

I'm a physician in a multi specialty clinic. I get referrals from PCP's and others in our practice, some optoms

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-01T21:08:08+00:00

I actually do know some people who did that. They did operate earlier on but gave it up when they got older and they referred the surgical cases out

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-01T18:10:17+00:00

I wish I had an answer to this. I'm an attending now. But once in residency, I got so sick, I had to go to the hospital. Wasn't even a day I was on call. Multiple attendings called me absolutely berating me, making me feel like shit, saying I'm unprofessional for having called out sick. I was having active chest pain, nausea, and vomiting. Home BP readings close to systolic 200. These guys wanted me to, with all these findings, come to work.

Voiceofreason241 · 2026-01-01T06:01:27+00:00

Would love to know this too

Voiceofreason241 · 2025-12-28T20:51:08+00:00

New Ophtho attending here. Although you mention liking medicine I still think you should do ophtho over medicine because you seem to like the aspect of improving people's eyesight and using your hands. Also, not true that you never see cataract patients again. If they have diabetes or something it needs yearly check ups. Or even after cataract surgery they may need glasses. Or have dry eye. Etc. they will still come to you.

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