Q. How do I apply to your program?
A. We accept applications from the Central Application Service for Ophthalmology located in San Francisco, California.

Q. Deadline and Interview dates?
A. Application materials, with the exception of Dean's letters which may arrive later, must be received by November 1 each year before the January Match Date in Ophthalmology. Interviews are held in late November and early December.

Q. What are you looking for in applicants?
A. Applicants should be honest, hard-working, self-motivated and intelligent students who are prepared to be treated as colleagues and will accept gradually increasing responsibility for excellent patient care in a challenging environment of clinical and surgical training.

Q. What are the unique aspects of your program?
A. As the only tertiary care hospital within a 70+ mile radius in beautiful Central Pennsylvania, the Department of Ophthalmology boasts a large and clinically diverse patient population, with clinical and surgical training second to none. Unique aspects include:

• Full-time staff, covering all the sub-specialties of Ophthalmology
• All clinical and surgical training occurs on site, with no rotations off-site or at a VA needed to support the program.
• High surgical volume
• Continuity of Care throughout the Residency Program.
• Basic Science Course at the nationally renowned Lancaster Course at Colby College, Maine, and rotation in Ocular Pathology at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia PA.
• Solid financial base and endowment fund earmarked to support residency program and research.
• Elective rotation abroad at the Tilganga Hospital in Nepal.