Dr. Hilary Grabe Talks about the New Residents Center
Plans have been drawn up for a new Resident Education Center that will be equipped with the latest communications technology. In addition to more spacious conference and study areas, the center will include an integrated video and communications system linked to Kellogg operating suites, as well as a surgical skills laboratory and surgery simulator. Here’s what Hilary M. Grabe, M.D., who is just completing her residency, has to say about it. “Having one central location where residents can study, catch up on work, and interact with each other will make the residency more productive. It will give the residents a base as they switch rotations from one service to the other, as well as make it easier to finish paperwork and call work and to dictate OR notes. The new center will also be more convenient for residents who are on standby for a new case or need to wait for a patient scheduled late in the day. “The new teaching tools will be a real plus, as well. Surgery simulators will allow residents to practice techniques using a system that displays surgical situations and allows the user to ‘operate’ with handheld instruments that have a realistic feel.
Next year Dr. Grabe will begin a fellowship on Kellogg’s Neuro-ophthalmology Service. She will complete the fellowship over two years, allowing her to devote a portion of her time as a comprehensive ophthalmologist at Kellogg’s Briarwood clinic.
This kind of system provides an alternative way for residents to practice surgery before entering the real OR. This will supplement the tools we already use, like our wet labs. “New technologies will also support residency training, including a video and communications system allowing residents to watch surgeries recorded from the new operating suites. The images are spectacular. Residents or anyone else looking on will have a three-dimensional view of the surgery — it’s as if you were right there in the OR. The system will provide additional useful information when you review a procedure that you or another physician has performed.”
Graduating Residents: Where Are They Now? Our residents completed their last rotations in June, after three years training with Department faculty and seeing patients in our clinics. Now they are in private practice or well into their subspecialty fellowships. Congratulations and all best wishes to our graduating residents. Omar R. Ahmad, M.D.
Retina fellowship, Cole Eye Institute Cleveland Clinic Hilary M. Grabe, M.D.
Combined neuro-ophthalmology fellowship and clinical faculty appointment, comprehensive ophthalmology U-M Kellogg Eye Center Roheena M. Kamyar, M.D.
Cornea fellowship U-M Kellogg Eye Center
Jonathan T. Pribila, M.D., Ph.D.
Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus fellowship University of Minnesota Christopher Rodarte, M.D.
Glaucoma fellowship University of California-San Diego Ron W. Slocumb, M.D.
Private practice Weston Eye Center, Roseburg, Oregon David M. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
Combined medical retina/research fellowship U-M Kellogg Eye Center
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