Overview
One-year advanced clinical programme for international ophthalmologists seeking comprehensive experience in cornea, ocular surface and anterior segment surgery, with four clinic days and one OR day per week.
The programme
- Focus
- Cornea & external disease
- Training type
- Clinical Fellowship
- Duration
- 1 year
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (Department of Ophthalmology)
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Valid Florida State medical licence; completion of all three parts of USMLE; ECFMG certification (for J-1 visa applicants)
- International applicants
- Yes - designed for international ophthalmologists
- Visa support
- ECFMG certification required for J-1 visa applicants (J-1 implied)
- Licence requirement
- Unrestricted Florida medical license required before starting; page states all 3 USMLE steps passed and 2 years of supervised US training are needed for a Florida licence
How to apply
- Deadline
- 1 September
- Application method
- Email application materials to the Fellowship Programs Manager (yxs696@med.miami.edu)
Funding
- Funding
- Travel funding for domestic meetings at which the fellow presents